Brother Bear - sorry, what the fuck?
I just watched this for the first time. Knew it was about a bear transformation, totally cool with that. Love Brave. Love bears.
I was fully on board and enjoying it. Little bit of action, lot of cute fun. Love Koda.
But as the brother kept hunting down the bears, I was getting mighty curious how it was going to be wrapped up. Surely no one else would die, but how would love win out? Kenai can speak bear through his totem? Cub gets turned too? Some sort of bear-human truce?
No, Kenai just stays a bear. What the fuck?
His older brother, in order to teach him a lesson that he was clearly directing, turns him into a bear. Keeps his other brother hunting said brother bear. And because Kenai naturally feels bad that his actions led to Koda's mothers death, he decides to stay a bear and guide him.
What?
Elder brother manipulated his little brother into becoming a bear forever. What the hell. And on that journey, kept his other brother on the trail trying to kill him in the freezing mountains - did I miss that teaching him wisdom in the background?
To say nothing of Koda basically needing to both greive the loss of his mother, and the knowledge that his new big brother was basically a monster that killed her and now wore her skin.
8/10 mindfuck ending.