Tron explores the complex world of video gaming and computers, before they became super complex worlds. Nowadays, you've got 3 major systems engaging in the System wars, you've got PC and Mac gaming deep into the internet age, with MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) gaining huge popularity, and console systems becoming hugely internet integrated. The gaming market is a large industry with a variety of consumers, producers, and suppliers.
The truth about Tron is that it simplifies what otherwise might seem far more complex, on both an ethical and moral level. That's ok. I want to stop and say that this isn't a criticism. I understand construction of story. You can have a good guy and a bad guy. No wrong about that. But I would like to comment on this unrealistic portrayal of "the industry". I say "the industry" because it isn't just gaming and computing that has seen this sort of trend. This is something that has spread wherever there is creation: music, art, invention, etc. Back on topic. The industry giant isn't always the bad guy. I think while a simplistic view would have ingenuity and creative freedom as one end of the spectrum and profit on the other. You can have both. You can be successful and praised, even "mainstream", without losing creativity.
Well, that is that. Glad we settled it.
And that is why The Sandlot is the pinnacle of modern film.
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