Brave is a very popular Disney Pixar movie released in 2012. I am
seeing it through Netflix DVD. This movie is set in the Scottish
Highlands. I love their accents. The theme of this movie is mother
daughter relationships, and overcoming pride. This movie has a very
interesting plot. Merida (Kelly Macdonald) and her mother (Emma Thompson) are at odds over her having to
marry a young man from a different clan so as to strengthen
relationships between clans. Merida would like to fall in love, and
choose her own husband. In her conflict with her queen mother, she runs
away. While away she comes upon a witch, who gives her a potion to
change her mother and thus her fate. The potion turns her mother into a
bear. Her father (Billy Connolly) hates bears, having lost his leg to a bear attack.
Merida has to get mother out of the house, and switch her back.
Meanwhile her triplet younger brothers also get turned into bear cubs.
Merida finds out the key to restoring her mother is to mend her pride in
terms of her relationship with her mother. There are a couple stand out
quotes, having to be responsible for our own futures:
Merida: [voice over]
Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we
are of it. Others say fate is woven together like a cloth, so that
one's destiny intertwines with many others. It's the one thing we
search for, or fight to change. Some never find it. But there are some
who are led.
Merida: [voice over] Some
say fate is beyond our command, but I know better. Our destiny is
within us. You just have to be brave enough to see it.
This is a feel good show. It has a positive motivational theme. Tony and I enjoyed it together.
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