![]() ![]() Not that that cannot work or has not worked in the past… and not that there isn’t a lot of overlap in the needs and worries and desires of boys and girls, women and men. She is not a girl slotted into a boy’s story. Because everything about Merida’s story is new and unique and undeniably female. A film of her own! There isn’t even any need to qualify the triumph of Brave, to give it a pass merely because its central character of Merida is so rare a cinematic thing. So it’s worth cheering when - finally! - Pixar gives us a fully fledged, well-rounded, beautifully developed female protagonist, with a complex, provocative personal journey that is hers alone. I love Pixar’s movies, for the most part, but when even their gender-free inanimate-object-come-to-life characters - toys cars robots - get fashioned as “male” nine times out of ten, this is a problem. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) I’m “biast” (pro): love Pixar desperate for good movies about girls and women wish I had hair like Merida’s ![]()
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