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How to Train Your Dragon 3 - thoughts on the conclusion

Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but

The plot cleanly maps to the European “Jewish Question”, except dragons are the Jews in this story. The Hidden World is Israel, a place to put all the dragons because the Vikings are too antisemitic antidraconic to coexist peacefully; and gosh darn it, it’s too hard to change their minds. EVEN THOUGH a central theme in movies 1 and 2 is the opposite: that the people of Berk can change their minds about dragons, and that people generally can overcome bigotry. All of that goes out the window with the third movie.

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