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[quote=Anonymous]I said before I thought the whole wrap up was too obvious.  Clearly the house was one big metaphor for the family cracking under the weight of expectations.

I get the intergenerstional trauma point but I think it was just all too glib.  Really serious abusive stuff to be swept up with a simple I’m sorry and a hug.  I think Brave did a better job with reconciling how parental expectations can limit kids and harm the relationship and resolving the relationship damage is the key to the happy ending.  But the mom in Brave was more typical level mother-daughter issues, which can be solved by an apology and a bug…..not like driving someone to live in the walls and half starve while you forbid the rest of the family from even mentioning his name level stuff.

I feel really, really bad for Abuelita.  She was obviously really f-ed up by the trauma she lived through.  This would actually be a really good art-horror movie….but I just didn’t think it was hugely successful as a disney movie.  Maybe it just needed a longer arc, or some softening of what happened to Bruno.  I Didn’t hate it but the story just didn’t really work for me on certain levels.  I give it a pretty good, not a great.  The production value was really good but needed another round or two on the screenplay writer’s desk.  I wonder what happened to all the Pixar screenwriters—they were really talented.
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