Who is Dory?
Dory is a crazy little fragment inside all of us. She is sassy, fun, confident and absolutely insane. She is the side of us who scares the other bits of us. Dory is the Dionysian side of Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy. She is about passion and all she knows is to keep swimming.
When I entered the cinema hall to watch Finding Dory, I wasn’t expecting much. I surely wasn’t expecting to learn. I went there for Ellen Degeneres (the voice of Dory). She has done a great job. And I cannot think of better voice than Ellen for Dory. Ellen is all about Dory.
Dory is a blue tang fish and she has short term memory loss. She loses her parents as a child and the story starts when she finally remembers she has a family and she misses them. It’s a heart warming story of a fish who realizes what it’s like to miss for the first time and goes on a journey to look for it.
Finding Dory is about life. It’s about finding our origin and rediscovering our actual self. Finding Dory awakens the Dory in us, we often forget about.
In life, there is at least one place we can always go back to. Our home. Home is safe, beautiful and always welcoming. The essence of having a home ignites because it is the only place we can go back to when we are lost.
If you have a home, you will never lose yourself.
The home comprises people you can always count on. They will love you no matter what you do and who you have become. Home is one thing you will never forget. And if it’s a home, you will always find your way back.
Finding Dory illustrates friends as the other family. They are not related to you by blood but that doesn’t make them less of a family. In life, there are people who will always love you, support you and never let you down.
The people who will agree with your crazy ideas because they don’t know how not to believe. Friends who love you so much, they are conditioned to support you no matter what you decide to do.
Along the journey of life, you will also make acquaintances, they don’t know your back story. But there are people who are always willing to help. The world is full of good people and most of the times we fail to see because we are so afraid to ask them for their help and help them back.
Finding Dory is about enjoying the little things in life, even when you are struggling to remember what keeps you happy. It’s about believing in your destiny when things go out of control.
The movie highlights the need to keep swimming, to keep moving. To keep believing the Dory in us. She, who often talks nonsense but makes so much sense.
Make mistakes but correct them and never ever stop swimming.
So, next time you are lost, ask yourself, ‘What would Dory do?’
Do not be afraid to do things that don’t make sense. Live and let yourself enjoy as a normal human being, flawed with scars and beautiful.
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