Follow the Yellow Brick Road...A2 M4

The yellow brick road serves as a metaphor to to life in the twentieth century in The Wizard of Oz. The movie starts with the twister and Dorothy seeing images of people in her town through her window. She sees her neighbor who changes into a witch and starts cackling, obviously paralleling the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy exagerates the personality of her neighbor, as producers do in Hollywood. Overall though, I think that this movie is one of the few that conveys the message that our lives are okay...that we don't have it so bad. Even as Dorothy enters Oz, she is looking for a way home. At the end when she finally does get back home, she's so happy and excited to be back, even though her life isn't nearly as exciting as life in Oz.

Once the house lands and Dorothy wakes up, she opens the door and sees the World of Oz in technicolor. Even though this world is new and exciting, Dorothy wants to get out of there so she can get back home to her life in Kansas. If you think about entering the world of technicolor as entering a movie, the movie has something to say to us. The producer is trying to say that even though movies are more exciting, home is where the heart is. There's nothing wrong with watching a movie, as long as you keep your life in perspective. Television and movies should not affect your life, they should be a form of entertainment.