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Finding Dory (2016)
Dory and the inspiration she will provide
People seem to be quite disappointed by this movie, I on the other hand could not have been happier with what Pixar provided for one main reason. Dory has a mental disability that isn't played for laughs and does not stop her from achieving what she wants to achieve. That simple thing is going to mean so much to so many people.
Dory suffers from short term memory loss, a mental disability, this affects her a lot this can be seen in both movies. But what is mainly shown in this movie is just how much it affects her life. It is so severe that she forgets parents for a large portion of her life. But it doesn't stop her and that is what separates this movie from so many others.
There are going to be thousands, if not millions, of kids who are disabled who will see themselves in Dory. This character is so rarely seen in any movie much less a kids one. A character that is more than their disability, Dory never rids of her short term memory loss instead she learns to overcome it, to live with it and not against it. There was even a little of that in Finding Nemo with his "lucky fin" but it's taken whole other level in this movie.
Yeah Marlon and Nemo weren't in it that much, but it wasn't there story. It was Dory's, her story was overcoming her short term memory loss. Maybe that wasn't what the masses wanted to see, but it's what many have needed for a long time.
Jenny's Wedding (2015)
My main problem
This film belongs in 2005, this is not how gay films/ people are written anymore. I believe this movie was made by a bunch of straight people who think they know how LGBTQIA+ people work but really don't and the people who will really enjoy this movie are just people who want to feel good about themselves because they posted a rainbow on facebook when gay marriage was legalized because "I support gay people". Now that's not a bad thing to feel good about there is still a lot of people who think gay people should be stoned to death but this movie is only enjoyable to a small audience when it doesn't need to be.
I'm going to compare it to another movie at this point, Imagine Me & You (2005), I LOVE this film it is very satisfying to see those 2 get together at the end and the build up that leads up. That is from the lesbian perspective, but the movie is also very enjoyable for most of the people around in 2005, accepting but still a little uncomfortable because it wasn't too much. It is a movie gay people and straight people can enjoy alike. Jenny's Wedding seems to have no idea what gay people would like to see in their movies using songs like She Keeps Me Warm, like yeah that song is about lesbians put that in. It really seems to distant itself from what it should be.
Another movie I will quickly compare it too is Carol. That was an AMAZING movie and what the top of gay movies is for this time in my opinion, I don't expect Jenny's Wedding to be the same as this movie which is getting noms from many different awards but I expect it to be modern. If you had shown me Jenny's Wedding and asked me what year it came out I would say 2004. But it didn't it came out 2015. There's a gap, there's a learning curve that hasn't gotten to Jenny's Wedding yet. Jenny's Wedding is how not to write a gay film.
That is my main problem with this movie.