This will probably be my weirdest article yet, but just hear me out.

So the big movie of the past couple of weeks was of course “Sausage Party” -- the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg written movie about food thinking that when chosen, everything is absolutely perfect and it’s pretty much heaven, until they actually go there. Of course it’s an R rated animated film that looks like it is for kids, but it is actually a raunchy comedy for adults.

I absolutely loved this movie. I thought it was funny, clever, shocking and just a fun movie. But then I watched it a third time recently. The third time is when I really started to open up my eyes more. Oh, I still love it, it is one of my favorites of the summer for sure, but it was the third viewing that made me realize that this movie was a lot more than just some raunchy comedy that wants to look like a kids film. In fact, I think "Sausage Party" is actually an important movie… Yeah, I said that. This movie is actually a lot more thought provoking than you might think.

So AJ, what kind of drugs were you on when you watched this movie?

Let me explain. Not about the drugs, about the movie.

By the way, spoilers ahead!

Anyway, as you might have already seen in articles and YouTube videos this movie actually tackles the views on religion and atheism. Those morals couldn’t be any more true. We literally start off with a song about how the gods (a.k.a., the people in the grocery store) are absolutely perfect and once the food gets outside those doors, there is a magical place where humans and food are free and can live peace for all eternity.

Seth Rogen as the main sausage, after having a strange encounter with a food product who had already seen “the great beyond,” starts to question if “the great beyond” is everything they thought it was. Then he learns the truth after talking to a group of non-perishables, that when food leaves the store, it is their death and / or torture. Rogen-sausage tries to warn everyone but everyone just immediately regrets him, even though he has physical evidence in his hand of a book that has a picture of people eating the food.

This movie is a metaphor about how close minded people have become, of course using religion as the example. Everyone immediately not believing what Rogen-sausage has to say is a metaphor for how very religious people view atheists. Let's face it, we all want to believe that a god exists. We hate hearing about bad things that would happen when we die and millions of scenarios of an afterlife. We only want to hear about the good things. So when he shows everyone physical evidence, everyone is saying that he doesn’t know if it is true or not. That it’s a “theory.” The movie is trying to tell us that we as a species have become very close minded with the idea of religion. Of course, not everyone is like that, but there are people who insult others and literally kill others who don’t believe in what they do.

But it is also about how religion could potentially bring people together because your religion does not define you as a person.

In the movie, a Jewish bagel and a Middle Eastern tortilla get stuck together and complain about how they have to share the same aisle. As the film goes on, they slowing start to warm up to each other more and more. This was supposed to be a metaphor for how we have been so focused in what we believe that it makes us believe that other people who don’t have the same beliefs are the enemies. But what the movie is trying to say as a moral between those two is that a belief is a belief. It’s easy to judge someone on a belief that maybe you don’t agree with, but that shouldn’t mean that you can’t be friends. That shouldn’t mean that you should shut out others who don’t have the same view point.

Yeah, this movie is a lot more thought provoking than you might think. This is a movie that has a message for society and it’s using food, profanity and raunchy humor to tell it.

A lot of you might think that I’m insane and I’m looking way too deep in to it, and if you are, that’s fine. But just hear me out on what I had to say about it.

But don’t ask me what that food orgy scene was about… Just, holy crap...