An article taken from moviepilot.com, “Mental Illness In ‘Moana’ & ‘Finding Dory’: Are Disney Done Celebrating Difference?” criticize recent Disney movies regarding to differences. The author Trevor Norkey states his disappointment when several characters in Moana and Finding Dory were mocked by other characters from the movie due to their disabilities. The characters do not developed into better ones that snapped off animated movie stigmas. Differ from the former movies when the stories tell how the characters overcame their disabilities while staying honest to themselves alike in Finding Nemo. Perhaps the author senses a similarity between them, effecting subjectivity arise when lately his favorite Disney producing movies that insulting mentally
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Rather, they apparently begin to make fun of these disabled characters. Alike it sequel, movie Finding Dory have disabled characters; however, these characters do not treated the same way. The mentally disabled sea lion Gerald is teased all over the movie by his peers while he keeps trying to sit on the rock. And so Becky the loon that treated poorly like a servant. In the movie, Marlin bothered by her disability even after receiving help from her. In the other side, there are also characters like Bailey a paranoid beluga whale with sonar skill malfunction, Destiny a clumsy near-sighted white shark, and Hank a traumatic septopus due to loss of its tentacle. Yet, viewers are only focusing on the mistreated real life portrayed Gerald and Becky. As (Shamsian, 2016) quoted, the co-director of Finding Dory, Andrew Stanton stated that Gerald is not meant to be an autistic character yet to be the nerds because all of them are nerds. It may look like as if Disney permits viewer to laugh at people that look different but in my opinion Disney just want to illustrate the truth where people are judge over the differences between
Rather, they apparently begin to make fun of these disabled characters. Alike it sequel, movie Finding Dory have disabled characters; however, these characters do not treated the same way. The mentally disabled sea lion Gerald is teased all over the movie by his peers while he keeps trying to sit on the rock. And so Becky the loon that treated poorly like a servant. In the movie, Marlin bothered by her disability even after receiving help from her. In the other side, there are also characters like Bailey a paranoid beluga whale with sonar skill malfunction, Destiny a clumsy near-sighted white shark, and Hank a traumatic septopus due to loss of its tentacle. Yet, viewers are only focusing on the mistreated real life portrayed Gerald and Becky. As (Shamsian, 2016) quoted, the co-director of Finding Dory, Andrew Stanton stated that Gerald is not meant to be an autistic character yet to be the nerds because all of them are nerds. It may look like as if Disney permits viewer to laugh at people that look different but in my opinion Disney just want to illustrate the truth where people are judge over the differences between