Brave

Brave ****

 

I just read the article that Chris Heller wrote about the movie Brave.

I have seen the trailer for the movie and it look like a very nice movie that I will wait to watch when it comes on DVD, however, after reading the article I saw the movie.

In my opinion this movie is about a very normal young girl.

She was at the age where all girls rebel against their mothers, at the age to want to be independent, at the age when she is trying to find herself.

She did not wanted to be force into a marriage, she wanted to make her own choice, to be independent, to be herself.

Yes, she was a tomboy, many of us were, so what!

I think Chris Heller saw a different movie than me.

She ends her article with “The film doesn't need to tell us whether Merida is gay. It just needed to make us ask.”

I did not see anything about sexuality, about homosexuality, about romance. It’s a children’s movie for crying out loud!!! I did not see anything that wanted me to ask about her sexuality.

What I saw was a movie that gives young girls a heroine, somebody that they can see making her own choices, somebody that can be a role model.

The movie came out on the same day than the Pride Parade, so what?

Actually, I enjoyed the movie very much.

 I just which people would stop to look into things that are not there, but I understand Chris Heller’s reasoning. By writing such outrageous article she got a lot of people to read it and to be familiar with her name which until a few days ago I never heard of.