Sausage Party... A Movie to Make you Laugh? Or to Make you Think?
After seeing the movie Sausage Party tonight I walked out of the theater pondering what the purpose of the movie really was...just a stoner-flick or a movie addressing deep questions on faith?
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In the movie Sausage Party, the main character, Frank the Sausage, is caught up in a quest to find out the purpose of his existence.
Throughout the movie he questions the inner-grocery societal belief that human beings or "gods" select "the chosen ones" to be picked off the shelves and wheeled out the door to the "promised land" where they will be freed from their packaging to spend eternity with the gods.
Sounds a little bit like something we call Christianity...
The grocery items also believe that they must live by a strict moral code that is enveloped in a song the whole store of goods sings at the beginning of the day.
As I kept watching the movie with this thought in mind I was seeing correlations left and right between the movie and Christianity.
Towards the end of the movie when Frank the Sausage is close to cracking the mystery he is abandoned by a group of peers including his girlfriend because they were question their beliefs and what is "promised" to them.
Is this movie a comedic attempt to call out religion and cast light on how society can blindly follow a system of beliefs?
What are your thoughts?
**Putting all aside, this is an absolutely hysterical movie that is well worth seeing if you need a good laugh**