There is an endless list of things that can be said for the first Hobbit movie, and there will al be quite nice and appealing but I think that the heart of the film, the... Arkenstone of the film lies in the very beginning. It's how Bilbo answered to Gandalf about sharing an adventure with him. "Nasty, disturbing things" he said for adventures Bilbo. And that's exactly where the whole deeper meaning of the book and the first movie can be found. That life is a big adventure. And if don't look at it that way you're going to be forever miserable. The settled life, the car, the house, the family, the fireplace, the pool and everything else that you might own is a fart in the air if you don't experiment in your life. If you're not open to new "adventures". Adventure might be to start a collection of very sexy thongs, start taking swing dancing lessons, start buying fantasy books, get drunk once a week, tell your father that he suppressed you, tell your wife that you think that you're a boring couple with a middle-class life. Adventure doesn't necessarily means to go and conquer the mountain.
Bilbo's boredom and safeness in life can be interpreted in many ways. It's safe to say that routine is most common drug in the world. Everyone is sniffing it. And most of the people are OD'ing from it every single fucking day. In Greece everyone's wet dream is to own a car, a house, a good woman or man, to have at least one child and to live happily ever after in their endless and bottomless misery. You see people that are forty and their reactions and day to day deeds make them at least sixty. Adventurous way of living is for them an anathema. If you tell them to change even one small thing in their daily routine they will react like you told them to cut their arm. Safeness in life is the worst enemy of creativity and happiness. Unfortunately very few people understand that or got the movie in that way.
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