On the post you rebloged about Disney movies and generational trauma, I really want to see one with a father and daughter at the core. Most of them have been about women, but I sometimes wonder if the lack of men can be the problem. What I mean by that is in 'nuclear' familes, most of the time, men are emotionally or often physically absent, leaving women to raised the families. I kind of want to see a movie focusing on a fathers absence in that light.
I agree. Disney has several stories about a father’s absence creating conflict (Treasure Planet, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Strange World, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, etc.), but those fathers have only sons. I wish Disney told more stories where an absent father is equally bad as an overbearing father.
What’s especially frustrating is when Disney shows a parent being physically present but emotionally absent, and suffer 0 consequences for it. It also means they do very little to move the plot. They might as well not exist. Like NPCs. Sometimes I think Disney’s ticking a checkbox to show certain characters, but without writing those characters well.
(This is one thing I loved about Encanto. Agustin faces harsh consequences for being an emotionally absent father—by which I mean he seems very unaware of his daughter’s feelings — and eventually learns to protect his daughter.)
