Finding Dory redefines family.
>‘There are no walls in the ocean” goes the concluding moral of Finding Dory, the latest social message from what can be considered the Disney Doctrine.
>But what about nature’s great barrier reef, the one known as Taste?
>Disney’s “happiest-place-in-the-world” corporate philosophy appears to tie in with current open-borders politics. (The better to welcome theme-park visitors, my dear.) The studio’s popular multimedia productions The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King, and Frozen have led the diversity trend for so long that Disney’s frivolous yet ideologically loaded entertainment has influenced what many people now perceive as simply the way animated films ought to be made and consumed –as youth indoctrination.
>>70932074
>In Finding Dory, a sequel to the 2003 blockbuster Finding Nemo, Dory, a blue tang surgeonfish, can’t recall how to get home. With help from her best friend, Nemo, an orange-and-white-striped percula clownfish, she journeys to find her way back to her well-meaning but ineffectual parents. It’s the usual, tiring Pixar formula, but now an element of modern grimness, patterned after the dystopian Wall-E (2008), has been added. It’s a grim cuteness — as in the dimply sound that Ellen DeGeneres uses in voicing the role of Dory: “I suffer from short-term remembery loss,” she gurgles at the beginning.
>One’s taste for messaging and for mawkishness will determine one’s response to Finding Dory. Although the specter of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease haunts this Pixar fish tank — especially in the nagging irritation that it all has been seen before — Finding Dory is relatively innocuous. And innocuousness is the problem. Dory and her water-dwelling friends learn about ecological coexistence while venturing through aquatic wilds and eventually into the Marine Life Institute of California. (This includes a maritime exhibit using action-movie heroine Sigourney Weaver as a docent.) But Finding Dory is aggressively innocuous, like the Toy Story films. Fears of orphanhood, bereavement, and social helplessness are raised only to be easily pacified. For anyone who is not a legally bound babysitter, Finding Dory offers nothing that will please a taste for finer humor, freer fun, or genuinely expressive filmmaking.
>>70932113
>Dory’s search for her mother and father is a transparent metaphor for our era’s bewilderment about family and identity. Once again, it’s time to rethink the impact of Pixarism — the veneration-of-family movie formula that too many people think is just dandy — as a corruption of movie taste. Directors Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane offer an aquarium rainbow of colors and tickling, wavy ocean-current imagery that must make the digital animators very proud, but these technological feats are tied to an overly cute moral simplification. Dory’s search for her mother and father is a transparent metaphor for our era’s bewilderment about family and identity. Dory declares that her pals Nemo, his father, Marlin, an anxious, amputated octopus (called a “septapus”), and other helpful anthropomorphic creatures are “more than friends — they’re family!” This doesn’t just mean camaraderie; it transforms ideas of orthodox family structure.
>The modern family in Finding Dory corresponds to contemporary social circumstances; it forsakes blood ties and shared history for new social allegiances. Curiously, it intermixes ideas of traditional marriage with ideas of social independence and individual sustenance (omnisexual sustenance through Ellen DeGeneres’s prepubescent vocals). This modern asexual view is just as sentimental as old-fashioned allegiance to the basic two-parent heterosexual social unit.
>>70932139
>Disney’s masterpieces from the Forties and Fifties, such as Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Bambi, offered richer alternative visions, in which individual protagonists learned from family separation and tragedy. Finding Dory, by contrast, feels tendentious. It encourages audiences to see themselves as part of a sociological construct outside of the traditional family. My main problem is that this is achieved by putting viewers through the politically correct wringer. There’s constant manipulation of sentiment in Finding Dory, but without reflection. A crucial part of the Disney Doctrine is to normalize social (and family) dysfunction. Dory herself symbolizes displacement and spiritual dislocation. She’s not just a fish-out-of-water — despite being mostly in water. She’s an existential victim. (One of her non-familial friends is a near-sighted whale shark named Destiny.)
>In his classic 1976 study of fairy tales, The Uses of Enchantment, psychologist-scholar Bruno Bettelheim explained: “The fairy story ends with the hero returning, or being returned, to the real world, much better able to master life.” Pixar has commandeered this template. It pretends to help audiences “gain emotional maturity,” as Bettelheim advised, yet Finding Dory — like all Pixar films — mainly teaches viewers immaturity and emotional dependence on Disney/Pixar product.
>>70932167
>Animation doesn’t have to be as formulaic as Finding Dory. In the 1960s DePatie–Freleng cartoon series Roland and Rattfink — newly released by Kino on Blu-Ray DVDs — the conflicts between the two men symbolized political difference (unlike Finding Dory’s communalism and implicit socialism). Their battles allowed for sharp rhetoric and antic graphics. Roland and Rattfink reminds one that animation’s original appeal came from its surreal rendering of the irrational — of a wonder, fear, and delight that goes beyond photographic realism. Finding Dory’s faux realism (the fish look like plastic when they emerge from water) replaces conventional animation artistry with a new taste for something less than wonderful. The Disney Doctrine advocates personal politics through obvious patronizing and adorableness.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436732/finding-dory-political-indoctrination-pixar
>mfw I'm not reading any of that garbage
wtf I hate fish now
no but really thanks for saving me time and money OP
>>70932334
ayyy cry more Pixardrone
>Septapus
>>70932074
>youth indoctrination
100% of all non-adult entertainment media is based around this very thing.
>>70933158
>>70932074
I agree in most of what he said but
>Dory declares that her pals Nemo, his father, Marlin, an anxious, amputated octopus (called a “septapus”), and other helpful anthropomorphic creatures are “more than friends — they’re family!”
This shit was seen in a bunch of cartoons and movies before. Also:
>The Lion King
>Diversity trend
That movie is about a guy letting inmigrants ruin a perfectly good place.
> "Go stand there, it's the best you can't do"
> "You're right, I'm useless"
then later...
> "Aw man, it's my fault!"
Just like the shitty Cars 2
So what's up with the transfish thing? No mention of it in the review.
>>70936589
If you have to remind people of it, then it's not a very good portrayal of it.
Is it mandatory to include a message about how your blood family isn't your "real family"? This message is in everything shat out by Hollywood. Especially if it's aimed at youngsters.
>>70932192
>Kino
KING OF TV
Awesome, I hope for even more LGBTQZP+ representation in the next one since this one has shown Disney that they have a much wider audience than they though! :)
>>70938325
>Abandon your family!
>Marriage and child-rearing are traps! Abandon your sense of responsibility and HAVE FUN!!!
>Ewww look at that boring stuffed shirt! Stop working so hard, HAVE FUN!!!
>Stop being so controlling! Let your wife abandon her children to sleep with other men! They'll turn out fine!
>Ignore all threats & dangers! They don't mean you any harm, everyone just wants to get along!!1!
>>70939392
Is Walt rolling in his ice cube right now?
>>70939518
He's probably cursing the names of those kikes that took over his company.
>>70932074
Isn't there like a theory out there that Dory is like some evil mastermind or something?
So when do you guys start spamming "What did they mean by this" shitposts about the post-credits scene ofthe Tank Gang spending a year inside their filth covered bags going across the ocean and getting brought into the California Aquarium?
>no walls
what did they mean by this?
>>70932074
>‘There are no walls in the ocean” goes the concluding moral of Finding Dory, the latest social message from what can be considered the Disney Doctrine.
>>But what about nature’s great barrier reef, the one known as Taste?
GODMOND WHITE
>>70939518
top kek
probably
But he'll make his glorious return someday.