Never wrote a film review. However, I didn't see a film review mentioning this topic, so I started to code words. Apprehensive. I don't know what it will be written.
Yes, the main line of this children's movie is family affection. It is a story of a father looking for a son. It is heartwarming and warm. But buried behind this "open line" is a ubiquitous "dark line": various physical and mental disabilities, and how these disabled people (fish) can survive among the mainstream of society , Struggle, support and comfort each other.
Because Super Carlin Brothers (one of my true love, the link is attached,: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKZo4N0lVPccBkSiuyVh4yg ) and some other YouTubers are crazy about the world created by Pixar. Every movie has I have watched countless times, and people who are not around Amway all the time, Pixar's movie can't just be watched once .
Super Carlin Brothers said that this is a movie about Disability. Probably for people living in American society, it is easy to distinguish which scenes in life correspond to these seabed plots. Because the details and life are almost one-to-one, so you can see at a glance, there are metaphors and ironies everywhere. At the same time, Disability is also a group of people who consciously have a sense of social responsibility and are willing to discuss topics that are politically correct.
Interpret a few examples:
Marlin & Nemo Marlin & Nemo
Experienced a great tragedy strikes , with the psychological trauma of a single father, he has been over-protective of his physical disability the only son , lived with little social life (A traumatized overprotective single father and his only son with a physical disability live a hardly socialized life). The reason why the English is typed out is because these words are very representative and belong to the label of "marginal people".
This is very typical for father and son. People who live among us but are forever ignored -life is full of hardships, but it continues, never gets too much attention, hides almost invisibly in the crevices of society .
Marlin is not sociable. It is embarrassing to chat with other parents at school. He has no friends or other relatives. Because of the tragedy he experienced before, the pain of losing his wife and all other children, he made taking care of Nemo into his life. What's more, Nemo also has a disabled fin.
There is a sentence from elsewhere, and I think it’s very good: “Don’t treat others as the focus of your life, even if it’s a husband or a child, that will make your life unbalanced, and more importantly, it’s important for being regarded as the center of gravity. That person is also very unfair ." It is true, even though Marlin is an undoubtedly good dad (they call Nemo's little fin lucky fin and they really love it), but the overprotection of Nemo still caused Nemo's rebellion, the separation between father and son. Nemo doesn't want to live in the trauma of his father. He wants to play with his peers, wants to go to school, wants to prove himself.
Without Nemo being taken away and a series of subsequent adventures, the father and son would probably live in such a rough and rough life forever. Marlin would not be a hero, and there would be no deeds that other fish would tell. Nemo may become a "problem youth", despise his father, have a crack in the father-son relationship, and hit a wall in society because of his disability; Nemo may slowly understand him, and eventually return to him, or father and son may drift away like this In the end, Marlin was sparsely at night and grew old alone...
If you change to a documentary style, the story of this family can actually be very heavy. It might be a bit like the new movie "The Florida Project" in 17 years.
But fortunately, there is a story about the adventure behind, which makes everything better.
Dory
Dory is a good example of "disabled and strong".
Her character is "short-term memory loss", because she can't remember anything, she has no family or friends, and she is discriminated against and marginalized much deeper than the clownfish father and son. But she has a particularly optimistic temperament: her most classic saying "just keep swimming" is really touching.
Dory's optimism is a very irrational belief. If you really know such a person, you can disregard reality and unfounded optimism at any time, you will probably find her stupid and annoying just like Marlin. In fact, we all know such people, such as my old landlady on Long Island: I live alone, and the hoarding house is messy like a garbage dump (but she cleaned up our house very clean), always talking about Some stories of God sending angels to guide her, saying encouraging words like inspirational books, make us feel: "This person is simply crazy", and then hide away. But as for cartoons, she can always be opened. At critical moments, her memory is also what she remembers when she thinks of it... and in the end, there is always such a mental power to support Marlin.
(Ps: Super happy that Pixar used Dory as the protagonist in the second part. But I don’t like Finding Dory because her protagonist’s aura is too open, and remembering important information at a critical moment, it’s really not too easy... )
But it is true that Marlin always needs such fairy-tale power to go so far.
BTW, Dory's voice actor Ellen DeGeneres, is the host of the famous The Ellen Show. Her voice is very recognizable, and a very important label on her is her lesbian and LGBT activist status.
As a fish, is Dory also a lesbian? We can't tell.
On the one hand, we cannot say that the race and sexual orientation of the voice actors represent the race and sexual orientation of the characters (otherwise it would feel a bit discriminatory). On the other hand, Dory and Marlin, who are indeed the male and female protagonists, have not developed a love story like ordinary movies. (Of course, they are different species of fish, they should be reproductively isolated......= =|||)
But what is certain is that although as a children's film, sexual orientation and other issues are not discussed in the film, Pixar asked Ellen to dub Dory, which shows an attitude of "focusing on marginalized people". I really want to pay tribute to Pixar for being so brave to speak for the minority groups, especially considering that this movie was released in 2003, when this kind of sound was scarce than it is now.
Shark: Addiction Support Group
The scene where the sharks have a meeting is one of the most classic scenes in the whole play. This is obviously borrowed from the conference model of the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous Association for Alcoholics Anonymous). The sharks are "fish addiction."
We have seen the sharks really work hard and bear a lot of social misunderstandings. No fish is willing to be friends with them (except for the optimistic Dory, who is born with a lack of heart and eyes). Of course, this is not all misunderstanding. After all, we have also seen that Dory shed a little blood, which suddenly made Bruce the big shark completely irrational, and almost killed Marlin and Dory.
The scene where the other two sharks yelled "Intervention!" while holding down Bruce madly, was really thrilling, funny, and tempting to cry (think of many serious movies, such as "Farewell My Concubine". The picture of Dieyi quitting smoking).
A children's movie can actually express such a deep content.
Aquarium in a dentist's clinic: a small society in a concentration camp
The fish that Nemo encountered in the aquarium after being caught, if you think about it, everyone is heartbreaking.
The aquarium is a concentration camp. Unlike prisons, the men, women, and children here are all innocent, and there are also some long-term social organizations, and everyone is facing the death penalty that does not know when it will come-given to the little girl wearing braces . Everyone is mentally overwhelmed under the pressure of long-term imprisonment: Bloat, a puffer fish that bursts at any time and is always nervous and anxious, Jacques, a clean-loving shrimp, and Gurgle, a cowardly silk bass, always lying on the wall. Starfish, small fish waiting forever for the fountain, etc... Because of the depression of the environment, everyone's mental health is impaired to varying degrees.
As in concentration camps, long-term life has formed some self-organized rules and division of labor. In order to survive in such an environment, everyone must help each other to survive in such an environment. There even appeared some primitive religious gangs. With what we saw, the scene of the volcano.
As a gang boss, Gill, a scarred swallow fish, is a typical representative of a veteran. He is the most determined person who wants to resist and want freedom, and the spiritual leader of everyone. No one really knows what he has experienced, but it is certain that it was a double torment of the spirit and the body. "Escape" has become his obsession, his only spiritual creed, and his motivation to live-until he took the life of a child to take risks and almost caused Nemo to be crushed to pieces, his beliefs collapsed. He fell into deep self-blame: "Oh my God, what kind of monster my obsession has turned me into."
When I was a child, I really couldn't understand Gill's self-blame, so deep sorrow.
Turtles: Adventure, Freedom and Calmness
If Dory's memory problem makes "live in the moment" her creed, then the turtle may be the most calm and confident animal we have seen in the whole show. They taught Marlin how to enjoy life, how to relax, and trust that children will grow up.
Fortunately, there is this section, or the whole movie is too depressing.
Of course, the whole movie touched on many other very profound themes: environmental pollution (people's trash everywhere in the sea, and even bombs), the relationship between man and nature (people are all villains in this show), Family affection, friendship, self-growth and so on. However, the description of physical and mental disabilities and the insights into the marginalized groups of society are indeed a very special feature of this children's adventure film.
Every time I watch a Pixar movie, I can find something that I have overlooked before or that I can't understand when I'm young.
The children laughed and laughed, but they knew people but they were crying.
Finally, I recommend this very beloved little article: 10 Life Lessons from Finding Nemo https://www.disneybaby.com/blog/12-life-lessons-from-finding-nemo/ I like each one very much. Translate a paragraph related to our theme:
8. Your differences don't define you. One of my favorite details about Finding Nemo is the subtle physical differences (Nemo's little “lucky” fin, Gill's scarred body, Sheldon's H20 intolerance, Pearl's short tentacle, etc.) and mental challenges ( Dory's short-term memory loss, Bruce's food addiction, Gurgle's germaphobia, etc.). But all of these characters are so likable that their little quirks are endearing and normalized.
8. Your difference does not define who you are. One of my favorite details of "Finding Nemo" is the very detailed portrayal about the differences in the characters' bodies (Nemo's "lucky" fins, veteran Gill's scarred body, and the little seahorse Sheldon's H2O intolerance , The little octopus Pearl’s short tentacles) and mental challenges (Dory’s short-term memory loss, Bruce’s food addiction to the big shark, Gurgle’s cleanliness, etc.). However, all these characters are very cute, which makes their little quirks also cute and normal.
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