Brave mini-review

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So I saw the new Pixar movie, Brave, this weekend. It was good -- the plot was more interesting than I was expecting from the trailers, and it is of course entirely gorgeous.

It was a little more serious than other Pixar movies (first 10 minutes of Up excepted[1]), as the plot is actually about an emotional relationship, with action being kind of

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[aedifica]

Yesyesyes.

[cobalt_00]

Now I wonder what you were expecting Labyrinth to be - which means that I think I need to find the trailer.

Here Be Spoilers

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Labyrinth's old enough that I don't think I ever saw a trailer for it. But at the beginning of the movie, even most of the way through, it appears to be a coming-of-age story -- here is the attractive, sensual power, here are the trials you must overcome, here is this whole bit with the junk-lady about abandoning the trappings of childhood that are holding you back -- but it really turns out to be a not coming of age story. Sara doesn't take any more responsibility for her little brother than she started out with, she gets back home just before her parents arrive, everything is back to comfortable normal. She's learned some stuff, and she'll be better prepared for adulthood when it's time, but one of the things she learns is that it's not time yet, she doesn't have to take on adult responsibilities, and she has more being a kid to do.

And that aspect of the movie is actually a fair bit like (part of) the emotional arc in Brave; it's more the mother learning this than the daughter, and it's not the main point the way it is in