Upvoted. My thoughts on Brave are over here, but basically Merida is actually a really dark character, and it’s sort of sickening that she gets away with everything she does.
Interesting enough to repeat is my suggestion for a better setting:
Consider another movie they could have made, Paisley, about a Scottish girl on the cusp of womanhood who gets a job in one of the first textile mills and is able to support herself and live independently through hard work. This story has the supreme virtue of having actually happened: arranged marriage was not done away with because a preteen girl complained that she wasn’t ready, it was done away with because people got richer and could afford something better.
Upvoted. My thoughts on Brave are over here, but basically Merida is actually a really dark character, and it’s sort of sickening that she gets away with everything she does.
Interesting enough to repeat is my suggestion for a better setting:
Of course, it’s difficult to make a movie glorifying sweatshop labor, whereas princesses are distant enough to be a tame example.