There’s a big emotional difference between “baddie eating a child” and “loving mother suddenly eating her own child”.
Word. And who says ancient fairy tales from the time of extreme patriarchy should be sacrosanct anyway? I don’t see violence like that in modern Disney productions.
On an unrelated topic, remind me: what the hell was Mirage’s superpower? Ability to create unreadable business cards?
I don’t think there are any villains in the incredible movies that have superpowers. (Ok, Mirage is a partially redeemed villain).
Was there ever anything more figured out about the little girl with the ‘Screenslaver is still out there’ sign?
Yeah, who does say that? Probably that scarecrow over there…
Really? Watched Big Hero 6? Or Wreck-It Ralph?
I don’t think Mirage was a Super. But she was smart and cute and mysterious and very thin and good with computers, and Syndrome found her helpful… until she wasn’t.
Still unsure myself about the little girl with the sign (see upthread).
The kids i saw it with didn’t seem to think so. They took it all in their stride.
Yes. I think the symbolism they were going for totally missed the mark. They wanted to convey that mother was so desperate to not lose her child that she had to find a way to hold onto him forever.
Eating him really didn’t convey that. Instead it gave off a creepy vibe that she destroyed or killed him. Which symbolically could show the dark side of mothers who are so desperate to protect their children against the world that they commit filicide.
It does kind of bug me that all of the supervillains we’ve seen in the series (Syndrome, the Screenslaver, the Underminer, probably Bomb Voyage) are metatechnologists. Sure, there are some good metatechnologists, too (Edna, whoever made the Incredibile), but there’s a bit of a subliminal anti-STEM message there.
Doesn’t it seem like we’re supposed to take the Screenslaver’s message seriously, even if disapproving of “his” (her) methods?
I don’t think so.
I think this is the right answer. The little girl didn’t have the dazed look of the other enslaved people. Plus, if the girl had been enslaved, Elastigirl would have had to jump into action to save her. Instead, Elastigirl just passively rides into the distance. This moment just prompted Elastigirl’s feelings of inadequacy.
Mrs. Charming and Rested got it right away and she loved it. I thought it was a parable about infertility (like the prologue to Up). It seemed like it was off to a good start when it implied that a person who can’t be a parent can find fulfillment by focusing on a craft (like making baos) and becoming part of their community. I was horrified when it seemed to portray an infertile woman so obsessed with having a baby in her life that she would rather eat the object of her affections than let it out into the world. I was wrong about the theme but my sense of horror didn’t completely abide when the short finally got around to correcting me.
6/10. Really slow. Elastigirl’s voice went from “quirky little trait” to “speech impediment”. Dash was a useless jerk. Edna still rocked. Obvious villain was obvious. Did I mention I found it slow?
The sound was not properly synced to the mouths for most of the movie. The animation of people looked like cut scenes from video games. The background’s were fantastic.
Overall, I cannot see a time when I would want to rewatch this. That’s fail.
Pfft. Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.
I thought it was a parable about an abusively neglectful husband, and a son’s rebellion against being held responsible for his mother’s social needs. Having another baby might seem like a solution, but it turns out to be a repeat of the same issue. Towards the end we see the mother resolve to be a positive in the lives of her son and his fiancee, and her husband continues to miss out on all that is best in life.
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!”
It’s high time Pixar made a movie that embraced this ethos!