This article about “Brave” takes a while to get going

July 14, 2012 By

but is worth skimming until it starts to get good. “If it weren’t already obvious, this isn’t a film that fetishizes courage in its ordinary sense.” And this: The paradoxical “changeable fate” is probably a familiar fantasy to most parents. That it stumped me for as long as it did I attribute partly my lack [...]

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Also yes, “The Bear and the Bow” would have been a better title

June 27, 2012 By

since the theme of Brave, which I saw last night, isn’t actually bravery at all. The Good: It’s so pretty! It’s a gloriously pretty movie, and the grisaille scene where the girl and her horse wander through a fog-hung, thorn-infested woods was chillingly beautiful. The visual humor is also adorable, and visual language is used [...]

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