“Brave,” Pixar’s first film with a female protagonist, caught the attention of audiences with its incredibly detailed animation, strong Scottish brogue and the deliberate exclusion of a romantic subplot. Elinor sees her lessons and the conditions that she imposes on Merida as ways to guarantee a secure future Merida sees these as restrictions and therefore believes that her mother is the barrier between her and the future she wants for herself. On the other hand, Elinor is hesitant to let her daughter take paths that go beyond the tradition that she is used to. Her freest moments are those when she is alone with her horse, her bow and the surrounding natural landscape her most limited moments are those when her mother is preparing her to be the queen of her land by teaching the expectations of a princess, which Merida despises. Merida, with her wild red hair, chafes at the way her life is planned out. The film instantly sets up the differences between Merida and her mother. While I focused on the jokes, my mom and sister seemed to focus more on the heart of the story: the relationship between Merida (Kelly Macdonald, “No Country for Old Men”) and her mother Elinor (Emma Thompson, “Cruella”).
In the theater, everyone in my family had something different to enjoy.
I was 12 years old at the time, and my older sister was in high school she and my mom had been fighting a lot, going through the classic teenage-girl-versus-mother-tension. In 2012, my family went to see “Brave,” Pixar’s newest installment, in theaters while on a trip to Boston.
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