Finding Nemo (2003)
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Form & technique
- The film's opening scene and Marlin's subsequent paranoia
- The overall plot structure of Marlin's journey → The Hero's Journey
Tropes
- Nemo's 'lucky fin' and Dory's short-term memory loss
- Marlin's overprotective behavior following the barracuda attack → The Phantom Object of Desire
- The central trio of Marlin, Dory, and Nemo → Queer Kinship
- The dentist's fish tank and its inhabitants
- Marlin's single fatherhood → The Performed Self
- Anthropomorphized marine life
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