![]() Without a solution to the “mom is a bear” thing and only “mend the bond” to go on, Merida and Bear-Elinior are forced to camp overnight. Merida and Bear-Elinor travel through the woods for an antidote only to find the cottage empty and a cryptic message left by the witch. ![]() Merida’s mother (and later her young triplet brothers) are turned into bears leaving Merida to reverse the spell. Naturally this is where things get hijinxy because the movie’s target demographic is sick of Clan Dunbroach’s family drama. Their path leads her to a woodworking witch in the woods who promises to help her “change her fate.” The spell the cailleach gives to Merida comes in the form of a foul-tasting tart that she must feed to her mother. This causes Merida to run to the woods and follow the Will o’ the Wisps. Mother and daughter have a knock-down drag-out fight where each of them destroys a precious possession belonging to the other. Absolute queen behavior in my opinion, but not so much in Elinor’s. Their conflict comes to a head when Merida publicly defies her mother and competes for her own hand in marriage. Elinor is constantly enforcing what a princess (re: girl, woman) should be through lectures, lessons, corsets, and micromanaging. Merida’s major obstacle in life is her mother, Queen Elinor, a rigid pillar of cis-femininity. If not for her gay distinct characterization, she might be compared to another feisty Disney redhead. She mucks her own stable and eats pastries before dinner. ![]() She runs around in the woods honing her craft as an archer. Merida is willful, bright, and rebellious. Does anything ever change?īrave follows the coming out coming-of-age story of the teenage princess Merida in 16th century Scotland. As you can see from my Facebook posts of the time (below), I enjoyed the piece and was surprised during this rewatch that the broad strokes of my opinion weren’t completely different. I can tell you that the film aged well but-goddamn-that combination of gluten, dairy, and sauvignon blanc did not. Plus, my sister had recently turned 21 and had been dying to go to the 21+ movie theater for an overpriced grilled cheese and white wine. Might as well take my mother up on the free movie tickets she was offering for a “girls” night. See that kilt? See those pipes? That’s some 1999 Highland Fuckery right there. If I didn’t go see it with them, there would’ve been a good chance I’d get clockwork oranged into it. Even worse, there are multiple members of my immediate blood family who are Disney adults. My mother’s family is Scottish enough to make watching movies like Brave historically compelling. I don’t actually remember having many expectations of Pixar’s turn at the Disney princess story, but I do remember that I was looking forward to the movie that was being heralded as a feminist turning point for the company and Disney’s first gay princess.Īt the time Brave came out in theaters, I was a college student living with my parents and sister and because of how they are…I wasn’t going to escape seeing the movie. Neither of these things were quite what I had expected to be watching ten years ago when I walked into the (then) new Cinebarre in Mountlake Terrace to see Brave. Here we are at the end of Pride month 2022 and it’s not lost on me that we’re watching a movie that contains a bear fight and women camping. This review contains “quotation marks” around feminine language to indicate the language used to describe or to refer to the writer prior to social transition. History, European History, World History, World Languages, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Other (World Language), Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Music, Vocal Music, Physical Education, Computer Science, ESL-EFL-ELL, Health, Geography, For All Subjects, Literature, Professional Development, School Counseling, Economics, Family Consumer Sciences, Cooking, Writing, Robotics, Asian Studies, Oral Communication, Child Care, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Autumn, Halloween, Dance, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, St.Can one movie about a queer-coded Scottish princess mend the bond between a child and their mother? Probably not, but for Sam Ro, at least, Pixar’s Brave = therapy. English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Science, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Social Studies, Native Americans, U.S.
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