THE NEW YORK TIMES RUINS FINDING DORY AS ONLY IT CAN:
“. . . in time-honored tradition, the movie also has lessons to impart. “Nemo” made the case for indomitability in the face of fear. “Dory” is more about the acceptance of chaos. Dory’s inability to make or stick to plans is shown, in the long run, to be an advantage.”
At the risk of reading too much into the movie — haven’t seen it, but I will — no one wants to accept chaos. The point of civilization is to make order out of chaos. The inability to make a plan or stick to a plan is not an advantage, and people who live this way do so because they live in a society that makes plans and sticks to them so there’s food in the store and juice in the sockets.
But we have to celebrate chaos — acceptance! It is not enough to be indifferent to people who thrive on chaos and can’t make plans. You must celebrate, because they are different, and that is all that’s necessary these days to get a gold medal.
Read the whole thing.