miércoles, 14 de abril de 2021

Finding Nemo


Just keep swimming

José Contreras
Marlin is an overprotective parent who can’t move on after his thousands of egg children and his wife are killed by a shark one dark night. His only remaining son, Nemo, wants to get out of his suffocating father’s control and in an act of defiance will turn up inside a dentist’s aquarium.

Marlin’s journey to Sidney is a road movie showing us other parenthood approaches, like that of the carefree turtles, or the mystical Gill, who shares a flaw with Nemo and loves him in a mature caring way.

In his journey, he makes friends with Dory, a reckless fish with short time memory loss who offers Marlin an opposite view of his fearful world.

In this Aristotelian* journey from the extremes in search of a golden middle way, Nemo needs to pass through an ordeal and choke the aquarium cleaning machine to provide the fish a chance to escape. But he can’t pluck up enough courage, not until he hears a story which moves his heart. It’s the story of a fish who has crossed the ocean searching for his son; the story of this fish who turns out to be his own father will illuminate his eyes and give him the nerve he needs to take action. And there is the point of this compelling movie, to show us what makes us change and take a leap from being a frightened child into a hero. This is a movie about where our courage comes from, and how stories shape our minds.

* In Aristotle, the golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency (In Spanish: el término medio)

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