Independent film critique #2
Lilo and Stitch by disney
This class has really opened my eyes and my heart to film. I used to watch a movie once and decide if it was a “good” or “bad” movie based on the plot or the characters or something like that. Now I see a film and can value a film for all of it’s parts combined. Lilo and Stitch was not my favorite movie when I first saw it because I didn’t really like the way stitch was drawn and I thought he looked a little too scary to be loveable. Now I realize that it adds depth to the character to be unconventionally “cute” because the whole point of his journey is to find a place to fit in because he is a misfit. Lilo loves stitch no matter his appearance and teaches everyone else too love him too. When he first comes to earth he is animalistic and has only the basic emotion of survival and the goal of getting back to his home planet, but as Lilo teaches stitch about “ohana” he learns that he wants a family too. I just love the saying used in the movie “Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind” this is truly what family should mean, but sadly to a lot of people it doesn’t. Even Lilo herself refers to her and Nani and a “broken family” and hints at the fact her parents left in some way and that tore everything apart. Family really is the lifeblood of happiness, because without those people who understand you and love you unconditionally, there is only appearances. Lilo and stitch is such a heart-warming film that you can feel good about your whole family watching together. I also really liked how Lilo wasn’t perfect. Many disney characters hold people up too unobtainable goals of beauty, intelligence and over all popularity, but Lilo is “broken” her parents are no longer around, she bites the other kids at school and plays with her voodoo dolls. This is an amazing movie!
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