: Brave
In a way I admire the promotional material for this film that didn’t give away the plot, but it also didn’t give me enough to really want to see the film. The basic idea conveyed was that this was about a little Scottish princess who was unconventional and rebelling against the dictates of tradition — but the trailers were mum on exactly how she did that.
The film seemed to ordinary so I wasn’t in a hurry to see it and somehow missed it in theaters. It turns out that how is exactly what makes this film cool. So — spoiler alert — don’t read any further if you don’t want to know that “secret.”
The girl gets a witch to give her a spell to change her mother, as she’s pressuring the girl to act like a lady and get married. But as magic often does, it doesn’t turn out the way she expects. In this case, it turns her mother into a bear! This is bad news because her father was mauled by a bear and hates bears, so now he wants to kill the little girl’s mother (he doesn’t believe his daughter when she tells him the bear is really his wife). Now that’s an intriguing plot: I want to see that!
Anyway, the movie is awesome. The girl turning her mother into a bear makes her realize how much she loves her mother, and yet through the experience the mother learns from the daughter as well. Just terrific storytelling from Pixar as usual.
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