Blog 2: Brave

Official Movie Poster

"If you had a chance to change your fate, would you?" 

- Princess Merida

The quote that I've mentioned above was from the main character of this movie whom I adore. This message was truly remarkable, and until this date, I could still remember it very clearly.

Princess Merida

Brave is a story about Princess Merida and her adventure towards realizing what truly is important in life. Princess Merida had a mind of her own. All her mother, the Queen, has ever dreamed of, was to prepare her daughter to find a suitable partner of her own and be like her one day. As Princess Merida is quite rebellious, she was against the fact that all her mother ever tried to do was to force her to doing things that she does not want. For example, when her mom teaches her how a princess must be like - dressing up, proper posture, not being able to play with her bow and arrow etc. When it finally came to the day where she was supposed to choose the best option for her to marry, she was furious as she was not in favor of it in any way - however, her mother still couldn't understand her point of view and still forces her to marry. Merida ran away and found a witch that would give her a single wish - which she used to change her mother. What she didn't know was that this wish turned everything around and has turned it to a situation which she never knew she will regret.

Princess Merida & her mom

I truly admire Princess Merida's character in this movie. Disney has finally came up with a Princess who's not always waiting for their true love's kiss and being saved. I feel that Princess Merida represents girls/ladies of this modern age. We are no longer that dependent on men and we do have our own point of views which other people can't easily change. Princess Merida knew what she wanted to do with her life - it's not to be a princess, all she wanted was to be able to explore and see the world.

Princess Merida escaping from the bad bear "Mor'du"

She was independent and she knew how to take care of herself. However, these were not the traits that her mom was expecting her to have. In my opinion, no matter how much our parents love us, sometimes they should know how to let go. To let us go out there and find ourselves. We do need their guidance and support, but to be able to live in the reality, we must still face it by ourselves - with our own outlook, how we want to live our lives.

The Brave Family

Princess Merida is also family oriented. In some ways, I see myself as her. Even though she is very close to her family, at times they just still don't understand what she really wants to do with her life. If I was to compare myself to her, I think that we've handled this problem very similar to each other. The only difference was that my mom understood my point of view after talking to her about it a few times - Princess Merida's mom did not.


I think that girls these days should be more like Princess Merida - apart from having to wish your mother was a bear - but to be independent and to be someone who truly believes in their self. In the end, we might make mistakes, we might regret some things that we did, but we will always learn something from it that will make us a better person. Princess Merida had to go through a lot of obstacles just because of this one wish she made; however, this made her realize that a mom will always be a mom, she realized that she still loves her mom very much no matter how she's not open minded about what her daughter really wants. This gave her an even bigger foundation of love to her family - specially her relationship with her mom.


If I was to rate this movie - I would give it a 9/10. It does not only have a good story flow - but a lot of lesson which we should really keep in mind.