Questioning Disney

Looking back at these four months of blogging about Disney and its flaws (mainly), I've noticed that I had entered this phase of questioning everything Disney shows me.
However, no matter how much I question, I still enjoy the movie! I realized this three times in the last month.

The first time was when I was watching Beauty and The Beast Live Action back when it premiered during spring break while I was visiting my family and friends back at my hometown.

While watching the movie I kept turning around and telling and showing my friends how the entire movie was racist! Clearly, it took me some time before noticing that actually Disney did an incredibly good job in trying to delete racism from this movie! Disney was also expanding and attempting to break a whole new environment: homophobia.

Either way, whatever Disney made that indicated any small lack of a necessary quality like not showing people of various color within a movie, or showing some bad qualities like racism was immediately criticized by me, and I believe that this is good because it changes the way I used to view an innocent company like Disney. In short, I am more aware of Disney actions. I more awake to their evil and good actions.

The second time was when I was watching Zootopia in order to gather information for a final essay. While watching I noticed that while I still saw how Zootopia did some aspects wrong like showing the bad stuff of being every animal (for example the hamsters in the tub), I also enjoyed the movie and laughed at those moments. Specifically, that scene.

The third and most important time was when I was watching this video:

The reasons why this video took me (just like it took you) to be more aware of the stories we are portrayed might be very specific, but I want to go into some details.

First and foremost, off course not!! I would never watch this story or let my kids near it, then WHY THE **** do we let our children near it?? That is a question we all must ask ourselves and it is the type of question I've been asking myself on every category relating Disney.

On a second note, it expands my view on every Disney movie. Yes, it is true that I've been reading a lot about gender within Disney movies, but none of those texts changed me like this video. In fact, after I watched this video, I flipped every Disney story by making males females and if it seemed right at first glance within my head, I would not harshly judge that movie.

Finally, I want to encourage the same thing with you. Just like my teacher used to say, "This is intended to break your Disney bubbles." And, in fact, I've busted my bubble, and it is time for you to bust yours and view Disney within more critic and realistic eyes!