![]() ![]() It’s up above the trench where they encounter the stinging jellyfish, a great cluster of them that pose a horrific hurdle, especially Dory who does not have the immunity that Marlin has. She says he should trust her, something that friends do, but Marlin distracts her anyway and convinces her to go up. She tells him she has a red flag about the situation that she can’t quite put her finger on (she was warned earlier by a school of fish to go through not over the trench) and thinks they should swim through it, but he balks, telling her it has death written all over it. Her memory is lacking, but there are significant remnants that pop-up in reminder. ![]() Dory, more adventurous and experienced, sees no danger lurking in the dark, in fact, getting a feeling that the trench is the safer path than going up and over, as Marlin suggests. For Marlin, this is nothing but a sign of danger, his life of fear and hiding forcing him to believe anything unknown is deadly. Along the way, they come to a deep trench (actually an undersea canyon) that looms with menacing shadows. It’s first mentioned when Marlin and Dory, having traveled far already and have dealt with ‘vegetarian’ sharks and a sunken submarine, learn about the East Australian Current, which will take them to Sydney. One of the better explored but lesser realized elements is trust, twice given weight in the story, both beautifully scripted and directed. But there is much more going on here than holding on to dreams and being persistent. Dory, a fish that can barely maintain a conversation due to her memory issues, is the voice of that philosophy throughout, with her mantra, “Just keep swimming” revisited often. It’s a common plot point of many children’s stories and Pixar addresses this in Nemo regularly. FINDING NEMO WHALE FULLThe Trust Me Momentįinding Nemo, like many Pixar films, is chock full of familiar themes, especially those about keeping a dream and never giving up. Finding Nemo remains a beloved family film and its two leads, Marlin and Dory, are now iconic. A visually stunning work, the computer-animation was unlike anything seen on-screen before, and viewers were swept away into a vivid, lifelike ocean setting that captured imaginations around the world. The themes of family, never giving up, and ecology were all strong attractions (even though the movie’s negative portrayal of captured fish still caused a massive spike in clownfish sales that decimated the species population). He runs into a fish named Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a regal blue tang with short-term memory loss who can, inexplicably, read, and while she doesn’t always know what is going on, decides to help Marlin find Nemo.ĭirected by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, Finding Nemo is the fifth full-length animated film from Pixar, an Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature, and one of the most successful films of all time. When Marlin sees his son taken, he panics and races after the speeding boat but can’t keep up, though a diving mask falls into the water with an address on it, which isn’t helpful since Marlin can’t read English. To prove himself among his peers, Nemo swims away from the others and is caught by a dentist scuba diving nearby and taken ashore to live in a fish tank. Marlin makes sure nothing happens to him and prefers to keep him close, but must let him go for his school field trip, inadvertently embarrassing Nemo just before the class leaves. Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) grows to be a sheltered fish, one fin a little smaller than the other. Marlin (voiced by Albert Brook s) had a dream life on the edge of a great coral reef, raising a family with his wife, but a barracuda arrives and takes it all away, leaving one tiny egg for Marlin to raise. A clownfish loses his entire family save for one son and devotes his life to over-protecting him until the boy is taken out of the ocean by a scuba diver and must test his own courage in finding him. ![]()
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