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I am a tech worker and i spent 8 hours a lone daily…i fear that I am carl for 40 hours a day 365 days a year.

Also, good point by Roger A. that Nemo deals with death pretty prominently as well. My mother took our oldest son, who was not quite three yet, to see it in the theater and after the opening scene, he turned to my Mom and asked her, “What happened to his Mom?”

That was the last movie my Mom took the kids to by herself.

As parents, we were a bit surprised at what was dealt with in the opening minutes, but we know plenty of people who have had
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fertiltiy problems and as I have revealed before, we are dealing with my father’s terminal illness,

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so our kids weren’t as affected as we were.

We try to discuss anything like that with them, and they both seemed to understand not only that there are hard and sad times in life, but also that life isn’t defined by those alone.

Anyway, I was way down on Pixar lately. Hadn’t loved a movie since Nemo (or Incredibles–can’t remember which came first) and actually disliked Wall*E. Found it very boring and really just another installment in the Hollywood trope of Schluby guy with a heart of gold who gets a girl way out of his league who would actually never look at him to fall in love. Kinda like Knocked Up with robots.

Anyway, after this, Pixar is back in my opinion. I’m aware that this could be reactionary, but right now, I think this was Pixar’s best movie to date, and the best movie I have seen in the theatres in a couple of years.

And it’s just a little ironic, after seeing your comparison with Miyazaki, that Japan will be the last country to get the movie, in mid-December… ^^;

In my opinion, no. Nemo’s mother dies very early into Finding Nemo and how this affects Marlin informs his outlook on life and his relationship with Nemo.

Yes, Miyazaki is a great comparison.

I was worried I’d said too much — I really benefited from knowing very little about the film before I saw it.

The story itself feels very Miyazaki based, actually.