Horton Hears a Who

I watched Horton Hears a Who last night and I absolutely loved it. It kept to the book very well and it of course added bits too. Whenever I was watching it I could not help finding many messages or metaphors about Christianity and God. The movie is a HUGE metaphor about faith in something even if you can not see it or hear it. In the movie when the mayor was trying to describe Horton to the whos in Whoville, he makes Horton sounds as if a God that we cannot see. Also, if Horton was a sort of God then he was no doubtable “saving” humanity in two ways. First, he was saving them from death and destruction and also he saved them because they finally believed in God Almighty. I went to Christianitytodaymovies.com and I found this:

The film also acts, equally inadvertently, as a model of religious conviction. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for," says the writer of Hebrews, "the evidence of things not seen." Contrasting the words of Hebrews 11:1, Sour Kangaroo tells Horton, "If you can't hear, see or feel something, it does not exist." But Horton is persuaded. He knows that the Mayor and the Whos of Who-ville are real, despite not being able to see them. In the same way, Horton's immensity actually makes him invisible to the microscopic Mayor. When trying to describe Horton to the rest of the Whos, the Mayor frequently employs the sort of language one uses to describe a God who has yet to make himself visible to us.