Jumanji

Do you remember ? That was awesome ! Okay, Peter and Judy, the main characters, aren’t really teenager, they’re more kids but i think that “Jumanji” is a film about THE transformation.
Indeed, what is Jumanji ? It’s a game where some african animals can rejoin the real world. It’s a quest, and a revelation for all peoples who play with it. Robin William’s character passed 25 years inside the game where he was prisonner. Now, he’s an adult and he is discovering the life who he never knew... During one of the final scenes, Robin, in front of his ennemy said something like that “My father said me to be a man and to cope with problems”.
Don’t laugh ! It’s beautiful, i cry everytime at this part !
Animals are the bestially part of everyone, and the main difficulty to leave adolescence, is essentialy to cope with your own life. You can’t stay hide more longer, you must reveal your true nature and assume your responsabilities.
This is an interesting side in teenage movies, a lot of references deals with this aspect of responsabilities. Would it be the main problem of young peoples ? Maybe, but it’s more complex !
For Jumanji, there is a part of responsability, but the story is about childness too, and the importance to keeping your childness awake. Robin didn’t knew his childness, and he was angry against his father it’s another teeange problem, especially for the boys, the relation father-son, between authority and friendschip, complicity and heritage. The final aim of Jumanji is about this reconciliation between Robin and his father, when Robin accepts the paternal’s point of view and understand that his father said that to protect him...
“In the jungle, you will wait, a 5 or 8 will release you”.