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A Movie For Our Times
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Apr 3, 2008
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547 people found this review helpful
This movie has gotten some bad reviews. Why? Because Critics analyze, they don't feel. This movie made me geniunely feel. I could have been any one of the main characters. It was highly dramatic, funny, and it made complex themes like death and the afterlife, responsiblitity and consequences, racism and dogma, hatred and revenge, palatable at a child's level of understanding. In this time where words like vengance and justice are thrown about in the same sentence by powerful men and women, this movie is truly important.
Yes, it is formulaic. It is also simple and pure, deep and shallow both. The formula works.
As far as I can tell, no critic has even yet mentioned the fact that there is no villian in the movie. Incredible! How balsy is that of Disney? The villian role is strictly subjective in this film, as it always is in life. Is it the bear, or the slain hunter's brother? Both are wrong, both are right. Both do damage.
Is it the critic or the viewers that are right about Brother Bear? Go feel it out for yourself. You'll be doing your kids a big favor by exposing them to this gentle movie. It is a classic.
If more movies were made with this kind of heart, maybe we all wouldn't be so ready to kill each other quite as readily.
Kudos to the filmmakers! |
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