Brave

[valancy_jane]

C & I both left the theater feeling rather stupid, and somewhat hesitantly confessed to one another we simply hadn't liked the film. We kept trying to figure out if there was more to it than what we were seeing; if we were missing something; but mostly it was very beautiful but neither deep nor sensible. I was comforted by revisiting Return to Oz and The Secret of Kells, reminded that not all children's art is pixel-deep.

Comments

[rinue]

I haven't seen it, other than a clip, but it does not seem good to me. It feels like the gender comes before the character, and I don't believe the relationships, largely because the simplified and retrograde world is not plausible if characters have these modern viewpoints.

[valancy_jane]

largely because the simplified and retrograde world is not plausible if characters have these modern viewpoints.

Exactly! I felt very stodgy at first trying to talk it out, and that's essentially what we decided. It was absurd, this whole marry-for-love (or not at all) concept. She was endangering her entire society by breaking the contracts in place regarding clan intermarriage. I was totally on the mother's side. It only made sense from a child's modern viewpoint. And for a moment we were wondering if we expected too much, and then remember tSoK, and decided we weren't.