"Wish" is Disney's most classically liberal in years
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For its 100-year anniversary, Walt Disney company released an ambitious animated film entitled Wish. Chock full of references and allusions to earlier films, seemingly fitting the anniversary it celebrates, it takes risks in attempting to capstone a century of filmmaking, and in the opinion of most critics, these risks did not pay off - the film scores only 48% among critics on Rotten Tomatoes and derided as “forgettable”, “generic”, or “irksome”. The audiences, by contrast, were somewhat more forgiving, giving an 81% audience score on the same site. Not being a trained critic or student of film, I have to throw in with the audiences, though I’m unqualified to defend that opinion on any particular aesthetic grounds. But the messages in the film, in terms of its overall structure and character choices, are, for a liberal, exceptionally admirable on the level of ideas.
"Wish" is Disney's most classically liberal in years
"Wish" is Disney's most classically liberal…
"Wish" is Disney's most classically liberal in years
For its 100-year anniversary, Walt Disney company released an ambitious animated film entitled Wish. Chock full of references and allusions to earlier films, seemingly fitting the anniversary it celebrates, it takes risks in attempting to capstone a century of filmmaking, and in the opinion of most critics, these risks did not pay off - the film scores only 48% among critics on Rotten Tomatoes and derided as “forgettable”, “generic”, or “irksome”. The audiences, by contrast, were somewhat more forgiving, giving an 81% audience score on the same site. Not being a trained critic or student of film, I have to throw in with the audiences, though I’m unqualified to defend that opinion on any particular aesthetic grounds. But the messages in the film, in terms of its overall structure and character choices, are, for a liberal, exceptionally admirable on the level of ideas.