'Turning Red' Viewers React to the New Disney+ Pixar Movie
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Rewatching the film because it’s so good. Definitely cried towards the end. Beautiful film that I think anyone who has gone through/is going through puberty & has felt the weight of family expectations can relate to.
— 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕪 马酉学 (@Lane_Xue) March 12, 2022
Fans of the movie pointed out the many aspects of its story that are universally relatable. They argued that failing to see the universality of these tropes is a symptom of white-washed media diets and poor education.
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IMO, you can really feel the generational & cultural shift in Turning Red with who’s getting to expand on what good story making & telling can be. There’s new, fresh nuances & it’s so refreshing to see a movie draw on a similar but ever growing pool of inspiration + experiences
— mon nguyen-vo 🍉🌻 (@monwinvo) March 12, 2022
Some pointed to Turning Red and other recent diverse movies as a sign of the talent pool in Hollywood expanding. They felt that it was good to explore the timeless themes of Pixar movies through different lenses to find new aspects of them.
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"If it's not white, it's somehow marginal," she said, "The global majority is Asian, so there are a lot of people who can relate to this." 📠📠📠📠📠📠📠 https://t.co/mMcUyIkD33
— Obi-Wan Kenholdme 🥺 (@reservoirbunny) March 12, 2022
Some also pointed out that, statistically speaking, Asian culture is relatable to more people than white culture is on a personal level.
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Okay, but why was it EXHAUSTING to watch? You weren't exhausted relating to rats, fish, monsters, robots, etc, so why this story such a struggle for you? 🧐 https://t.co/aPv37jcWDv
— THEE Rimonima 💛🐝✡️🇺🇦🌻 (@rimonima) March 8, 2022
Some users made a joke out of the idea that Turning Red was difficult to relate to in comparison to other Pixar movies. They wondered how a critic could feel like they had more in common with the fish in Finding Nemo or the robots in Wall-E than with a human family from Toronto.
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Between Onward, Encanto, and Turning Red, I’m loving how Disney has shifted from having a literal villain to making the antagonist simply be actual problems you deal with growing up.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 12, 2022
turning red made me realize that there really aren’t any mainstream animated movies that focus on female friendships- at least none that i can think of 😬 pic.twitter.com/A25YGGLJPv
— xeebs 💖 (@starxeebs) March 12, 2022
Fans pointed out other thematic differences in Turning Red that you might have missed if you were too focused on the racial distinctions in it.
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As a woman in animation who has been told again and again, as a child and as an adult, that animation is for boys, Turning Red is a HUGE huge deal. Also, more period talk in movies!!!
— Olivia Pecini (@oliviapecini) March 12, 2022
Don’t think this is a spoiler, but—idk that I *ever* (as a teen) saw anything depict women’s health and care (mental & physical) with the normalcy #TurningRed does.
There’s something revolutionary to that level of transparency about adolescence being HARD. pic.twitter.com/HScLJ6ew0l
— Sam, Esq. 🌈 (@loverlydarling) March 12, 2022
One of the things people applauded this movie for the most was its casual but earnest depiction of menstruation, without any shame or punchlines attached. In hindsight, many women wished they had seen this kind of representation when they were Mei's age.
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That dude who wrote the bad review of Turning Red for Cinema Blend wrote a bad review. If your critique needs to be anti-asian to make your point than you’re a bad critic. Stop screaming cancel culture when you mean “Cinemablend pulled a bad article”
— Colin_Bites (@Colin_Bites) March 12, 2022
At the end of the day, some felt that the conversation about race and relatability that this movie stirred up boiled down to a question of quality. They argued that Turning Red was a high-quality film while O'Connell's review was a low-quality article. Other factors were just ancillary.
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