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Well, I took my 2 year old to see "Finding Nemo" this afternoon.
I thought it was a pretty good movie that in no way romanticized keeping fish in captivity. In fact, the movie did a good job of anthropomorphizing the idea that fish do not want to be captured and placed in a tank. It also did a good job of showing how the technological byproducts of man mess up the ocean. I fail to see how the movie would encourage a child to want to start an aquarium. It also showed throwing a fish down the drain as being a scary and dangerous prospect.
Perhaps the marketing of the movie could cause an interest in starting a marine aquarium, but all I see the actual movie doing is making kids want stuffed animals that resemble marine fish.
In other words, I think the reef community is largely blowing the negative impact of this movie out of proportion.
-Lee
I thought it was a pretty good movie that in no way romanticized keeping fish in captivity. In fact, the movie did a good job of anthropomorphizing the idea that fish do not want to be captured and placed in a tank. It also did a good job of showing how the technological byproducts of man mess up the ocean. I fail to see how the movie would encourage a child to want to start an aquarium. It also showed throwing a fish down the drain as being a scary and dangerous prospect.
Perhaps the marketing of the movie could cause an interest in starting a marine aquarium, but all I see the actual movie doing is making kids want stuffed animals that resemble marine fish.
In other words, I think the reef community is largely blowing the negative impact of this movie out of proportion.
-Lee
