There are also themes in Brave that relate closely to our own war-like society, and I don't think this is any accident. But it tells a story that feels awfully familiar to those doing feminist work in the maddeningly complex real world. In the end, Brave doesn’t have much to do with girl-power fantasies that imagine girls doing it for themselves without offering a real challenge to male privilege. Only when the female characters start to work together-to take the collective action so beloved by progressive organizers-does actual change occur. I think Amanda Marcotte in her American Prospect post captures the fabric of Brave's social bravery best:Ī lesser film would have made Merida’s plot to out-man the men at archery the end of the story, but this more realistic portrayal shows how individual action can make the situation worse. Yet her strength of character succeeds over her physical gifts (archery and related cartoon medieval daredevilry) and Merida emerges every bit the conflicted, three-dimensional character that made, say, Woody so memorable. Indeed, the film reveals its beating feminist heart in the portrayal of the choices, and compromises (except on one crucial point related to marriage), and alliances that Merida must make to save her family. It doesn't imagine a young girl triumphing over the patriarchal society of tribal Scotland and dashing away all its conventions. And another thing: Brave isn't triumphalist.

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