Many wrongly assume that The Emoji Movie is simply a bad cash grab for iPhone but in reality when you look underneath the simple exterior one finds a truly elegant poetic story about a father trying to connect with his estranged son.

The Plot You Know:

The plot you probably know is that of Alex trying to pick up a hot babe at school with the sexiest emoji of them all, a meh. Inside his phone is Textopolis and it is the first day for our hero, Gene. He is supposed to be a meh but he wants to be cool so he doesn’t. His attempts to look cool in front of the ladies fail though when Alex sad that he faced rejection once again and having very clear scapegoat, decides there is no other option but to annihilate everything on his phone. Gene’s oops letter did not solve this so with \*insert rebel girl here\* and \*insert comedy relief here\* decide to stop this. After participating in the longest ad in human history they give Alex an ultra-sexy emoji which impresses his crush enough that she decides there and then he is obviously an alpha male chad.

The Secret Plot:

For someone to truly understand the secret plot, first you must understand that the director, Tony Leondis, had no control over this movie but rather a movie exec made this movie. Now, what are the biggest problems that a movie exec faces? The problems that most movie execs face are your stocks not doing good, power hunger people below you, a lack of connection with your son, and your trophy wife trying to get a big chunk of money from the divorce. You could argue it could resent any one of these, that would take too long so I go with the lack of connection with your son.

Let us recontextualize this imagine you are a movie exec and you remember that you have not talked to your son for 6 months and your wife is going to use him against you in the court. So you decide to send him a crappy meme. Your son shocked that you have so little connection with him that you thought that he genuinely find a screwed up emoji fun decides that he is going to delete you from his contacts. You decide then and there that your relationship with your son is more important than impressing the other members of the board (especially since your wife is trying to take your massive yacht by influencing your son).

So you tell the board that you want to take some vacation time but the CEO represented by Smiler in the movie tells you that he is not sure if he wants to keep you on the board especially since you are taking a lot of vacation time. You are in some deep waters now and you desperately need someone around your son’s age to tell you about what is hip and cool. Then you remember John, the intern that gives you coffee, represented by Hi-5, and Glenn, the girl in IT represented by Jailbreak. They try to tell you what’s cool but you fail to truly wrap your head around all this and the CEO is getting pushier and pushier about returning to work. Then with Glenn, you realize that you are beginning to have a relationship with her that you wished you have with your son.

Then at the end of the day with your newfound knowledge, you go to [r/memes](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/) copy and paste the first meme in Hot and send it to your son. While your son is still mad at you, he agrees that you have good meme taste and decides not to delete your contact.