Breaking free of societal indoctrination to the more

Independent of the specific cinematic elements, which will find favor with some and displeasure for others, this is a story about breaking free of the indoctrination that one receives from one's culture, one's particular "world". Were you raised in a violent, drug infested, inner city neighborhood? How about an Ivy league, polished household where the clear though unspoken "truth" in which you have been nurtured is that you are intellectually and culturally superior to everyone else? How about a seriously religious Middle-eastern family that deeply disapproves of highly charged sexual innuendo commonly presented in U.S./European media/movies. Everyone is indoctrinated by the society that nurtures them, eventually, many members of that society/culture come to realize there is much more, in most cases, something better than what one has been given. The variety of commentaries on most websites range from respectful, friendly and stimulating, to offensive, angry, disparaging. These distinct efforts to "comment" reveal much about the family/culture in which one has been nurtured. The story in this movie invites the viewer to appreciate that there is more to life than what their own particular society has given them. That something better and truer is being given back to those who had lost it or had never before even known it existed. Until now. It is my opinion that actors like Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges would agree to a movie like this because of the integrity of the story - that there is something worth portraying here. The evaluation of whether it achieved cinematic success is not the same as whether it told a valuable, perhaps transformative story.