Original poster artwork · Great Cinema Master ListOscar · 1
Spoiler-free premise
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium.
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After Nemo is captured from the Great Barrier Reef and placed in a Sydney dentist's aquarium, his cautious father Marlin crosses the ocean to find him. The forgetful but fearless Dory becomes his unexpected traveling companion.
Why it belongs
In Finding Nemo, Pixar gives the ocean readable scale and species-specific movement while using Marlin and Dory's journey to examine fear and trust.
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Pixar gives the ocean readable depth, currents, scale, and species-specific movement, while the contrast between Marlin and Dory makes their rescue journey a rigorous study of fear, trust, memory, and parental release.
