On Sunday after church I planned to watch the Phillies-Mets series finale on TV, but was bummed to find out that the game had been rained out. When I turned on channel 17, I was greeted by the opening few minutes of The Iron Giant, which was being shown in place of the baseball game.Iron Giant is about a young boy who goes out late one night and finds a huge robot roaming in the wilderness looking for food. I won't recount the whole movie, but toward the end of the movie, the US government launches a nuclear missle to destroy the robot because they perceive him as a threat to the safety of the society. They do this despite the fact that the robot has shown himself to be good and has saved lives with his great power.
In the climactic scene, the missle is heading toward the small town, and is about to destroy not only the robot, but the entire town as well. The Iron Giant decides he must sacrifice himself in order to save the town, and launches himself into the sky in order to intercept the missle. The Giant collides at full speed with the missile, which explodes above the atmosphere, apparently destroying the Giant but sparing the town.So the Phillies got rained out, but I hope those who stay tuned in to channel 17 didn't miss the Gospel presentation. A robot with supernatural power chooses to sacrifice himself to save the people who are trying to kill him?
I wonder how they come up with such stories....
Since you didn't mention the ending, it reveals the fact that while everyone thought that the robot was destroyed and remember him for what he has done, the boy find out that he wasn't destroyed but far away across the world pieces of him are joining together to reconstruct the robot. He is being resurrected.
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