Pocahontas

Throughout my entire childhood I told myself that I have watched Pocahontas. I watched it a couple of days ago, and right now I don't know if it was my first time.

Throughout my life, I had this storyline based from a mashup of many other movies that came to my mind whenever I was asked if I have seen Pocahontas, and I always believe that I had, but now that I watched it again I don't remember a single part of it.

I remember some parts and some songs because I have seen them in other places like youtube videos and my music library in itunes. I now by heart the lyrics to the song "Colors of The Wind" and I keep singing this song while I'm taking a bath.

When I "rewatched" Pocahontas a couple of days ago, I could recognize any character nor villain which meant that it was the first time I saw it. I couldn't believe it so I called my high school friends which whom we made a five straight day disney animated marathon where we viewed most disney animated movies in a row and asked them if we had the opportunity to watch Pocahontas and they said that that was one of the few we did not watch.

WOW! I was surprised! There was a Disney movie I did not watch in my childhood! That IS a plot twist!  Now let me tell you the important part: Did I like it? Because this is the first question you ask anybody (specially a kid) whenever they finish a Disney movie. This question for some odd reason is more important than the discussion of the movie itself.

YES! YES! YES! YES I DID LOVED IT! Pocahontas is amazing and I loved it! I loved the characters, the soundtrack, and the storyline. I loved the independence of Pocahontas to stand up to her father! I loved the "Romeo and Juliet" background love story!

I also liked the villain, because to some extent he was doing what all conquerors where doing in America added to the fact that he looked royal to some extent. I know many will argue that he looks feminine and in many aspect he does, but the color of the clothes is not an indicator because the purple clothes is an indicator of royalty. The purple dresses where sold in that time by the Phoenicians and they very expensive because they were a symbol of royalty! And the fact that the governor is wearing purple is an acknowledgement of that!

In short,  I loved Pocahontas and I would watch it again. Now that I think back to the mashup of movies that took the place of Pocahontas I can't remember my old story and that is what makes me wonder if I actually watched Pocahontas before or not.