Text Review-Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo is about a protective father and his son. Marlin is an overprotective father who is taking care of his son Nemo. Nemo, trying to prove himself, swims too close to the surface and gets caught by a diver. Marlin goes on a thrill seeking adventure making new friends and enemies to bring back his only son. This movie displays diversity in its charectars as disability becomes the sole characteristic that every character has to overcome. We see that disabled characters are the most underestimated in this movie. Marlin’s emotional disability stems from the traumatic loss of his wife and his anxiety. This causes Marlin’s overprotectiveness for his son, Nemo leading to Nemos social exclusion. Despite his emotional state of being, he fights the hardest to find his son even though the small pitfalls he faces now and then. Disability in this movie is presented as social quality rather than a state of physical image. Dory also exemplifies this characteristic: a blue finned fish with short term memory loss. Due to her sociable and excited mentality, she is able to communicate with other animals especially whales to progress the journey of finding Nemo. She is however seen as a stupid fish repeating the same phrase “just keep swimming” but proves to help a friend in need. Even after Marlin’s constant request for her to leave, her forgiving nature leads to a well-developed friendship. Some questions the author initializes for the viewer are whether these disabilities cause the characters to be overlooked or give the “villains” power over the “lower” class. Lastly, this movie leaves the viewers that have really engaged in the story to understand if any character was treated with injustice because of a deformity or how one’s with such disabilities come together to become a strong power.

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