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Disabilities In Disney's Film Finding Nemo

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Disney’s film “Finding Nemo” was introduced in 2003 to theatres with a whole new perspective of disability not previously shown before in animated films. This film is focused on a young clownfish named Nemo, whose mother and siblings were killed at birth due to an eel attack. Nemo is appealing to audiences not for his disability but because he made it a part of who he was. He did not ignore it or expect pity but he was determined to be treated like everyone else. Nemo serves as a positive example of disability in the film and he is not portrayed as a victimized subject but one who is determined to succeed. His willingness to step out of his father’s comfort zone is what results to Nemo’s abduction from the reef. His disappearance is what lead to the entertaining and heart-warming adventure of his journey home and even further leading us to Finding Dory.

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Dory’s pleasing and cheerful appearance leads her to make friends throughout the film, and allow Marlin to find their way towards Nemo. Dory's character brought Disney to create the movie ‘Finding Dory’ who is solely focused on Dory’s background story. Finding Dory came out in theatres in 2016, quite some time after Finding Nemo. Finding Dory is a film focused on Dory and her journey home back to her parents, while facing short-term memory loss. It certainly is challenging for her being that she often forgets where she is, what her mission is, and who she is with. It reveals a deeper meaning of her memory loss rather than the laughs it brought in Finding Nemo. We learn that Dory was born with memory loss and that caused her to one day wander off from her family and grew into adulthood trying to find them. Dory one day randomly has a flashback and realizes she has parents so throughout the film she guides herself based off the flashbacks. Therefore, Marlin and Nemo embark the journey with Dory to find her

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