Oblio's View On The Pointless Forest

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The Point directed by Fred Wolf is set in a village where the law states that everything must have a point, even the people. The story begins with the birth of a young boy, Oblio (voiced by Mike Lookinland) who unlike everyone else in the village is born without a point. Consequently, he is exiled to the Pointless Forest. In this movie, Wolf portrays that things are to be judged by their hearts not their appearance. At the beginning of the movie, the narrator says that Oblio, since he does not have a point is pointless. However, he is proved wrong when Oblio changes the people’s view on their law of everyone must having a point. When Obilo continues his journey through the Pointless Forest, he says, “Instead of being pointless, this forest

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