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jackGood things
1. The animation is gorgeous, having realistic completely animated characters is amazing.
2. The basic plot is perfectly good, and if you're a bit less jaded than me, I can imagine falling in love with it.
3. The basic message of choosing what you want to grow up as is a good one.
4. All the characters, even the stereotypical ones, are nice and often interesting.
Bad things
1. I'm sick of films that say "yes, the protagonist can break expectations and do whatever they want, but everyone else has to tamely accept gender stereotypes". Yes, that's a message which goes on being necessary, but can we have some messages which say "it's ok to have a go at doing what you want, it won't ALWAYS be a giant disaster that needs an exceptional hero to avert"?
2. The story was perfectly good, but all other pixar films, have blown me away in some way, this fulfilled everything I might have expected, but didn't really say "wow, I'd never have thought of that".
Nitpicks
1. The wisps are really beautiful, but "mysterious" and "magical" are somewhat undermined by "equally spaced". That's not subtle, even skeptics would try following marshlight if it illuminated a regular path. (Jack's life advice: don't follow marshlight unless you know what you're doing.)
2. If you need someone to (a) climb into the upper floors of a castle (b) not be seen and (c) sew I suggest you have the bear wait outside and the human do the sneaking and sewing.
3. Why do the clans want to go to war? Are they afraid they'll lose control of their clans if they're slighted? Are they proud, already reluctant to bow to Merida's father as king? Are they afraid they'll be marginalised and left for vikings if they don't seize political power in the next generation? The current message of the film doesn't seem to be so much "sometimes you have to do unpleasant things for political stability" but "you have to do what your mother says, however stupid, because maybe fate will randomly smite you if you don't..."
4. Please talk to each other.
5. If you make a piece of cut-text that uses the cut text as a title, include the same text as an actual title inside, or if someone clicks on it, the whole post will just run together.
1. The animation is gorgeous, having realistic completely animated characters is amazing.
2. The basic plot is perfectly good, and if you're a bit less jaded than me, I can imagine falling in love with it.
3. The basic message of choosing what you want to grow up as is a good one.
4. All the characters, even the stereotypical ones, are nice and often interesting.
Bad things
1. I'm sick of films that say "yes, the protagonist can break expectations and do whatever they want, but everyone else has to tamely accept gender stereotypes". Yes, that's a message which goes on being necessary, but can we have some messages which say "it's ok to have a go at doing what you want, it won't ALWAYS be a giant disaster that needs an exceptional hero to avert"?
2. The story was perfectly good, but all other pixar films, have blown me away in some way, this fulfilled everything I might have expected, but didn't really say "wow, I'd never have thought of that".
Nitpicks
1. The wisps are really beautiful, but "mysterious" and "magical" are somewhat undermined by "equally spaced". That's not subtle, even skeptics would try following marshlight if it illuminated a regular path. (Jack's life advice: don't follow marshlight unless you know what you're doing.)
2. If you need someone to (a) climb into the upper floors of a castle (b) not be seen and (c) sew I suggest you have the bear wait outside and the human do the sneaking and sewing.
3. Why do the clans want to go to war? Are they afraid they'll lose control of their clans if they're slighted? Are they proud, already reluctant to bow to Merida's father as king? Are they afraid they'll be marginalised and left for vikings if they don't seize political power in the next generation? The current message of the film doesn't seem to be so much "sometimes you have to do unpleasant things for political stability" but "you have to do what your mother says, however stupid, because maybe fate will randomly smite you if you don't..."
4. Please talk to each other.
5. If you make a piece of cut-text that uses the cut text as a title, include the same text as an actual title inside, or if someone clicks on it, the whole post will just run together.
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Date: 2013-07-06 08:54 pm (UTC)That's what clans do :->
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Date: 2013-07-06 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-07 03:10 pm (UTC)(More sensibly, there will always be people who think that there's more to be had through peace than war, and vice versa.)
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