The Incredibles: An Analysis Of Disney's Movies

Many believe it is smart to incorporate activist ideology into modern entertainment. Movies, songs, and art are easy to connect to or understand. An audience is more likely to catch onto the message if it is interwoven into the story line. Revealing the message this way will not lose the audience as it would through general activism. Disney has used their platform to address these issues through their children's movies. The message is conveyed clearer in some movies compared to others. For example, a message of discrimination is clear in their 2016 movie Zootopia. These messages are typically blurred in some of their older movies. To find them, one would have to analyze the movies in a deeper context. Disney's 2004 movie, The Incredibles, is

The family is forced to live exactly like their normal counterparts because their society views heroes as a threat. In the movie, the government banned all super-hero activities. This forced the heroes to assume dull lives within the real world. Due to a series of events, the Incredible family unmasked their hidden identities to save the city of Metropolis, leading all the heroes to come out of hiding. Thanks to the Incredibles, heroes are helpful again and are no longer seen as a threat. For segments of people in our society, however, the story typically does not have such a happy ending. Within our own society, groups described as being dangerous or burdens are often ostracized. Society views certain people as 'dangerous' and 'threats to society.' Society forces those with differences to live their lives in the shadows, typically due to stereotypical fears. Within our society, it is often the mental health community that is described in such a manner. Within this group of people, it is more often that those with mental illness, like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, that are ostracized. Society labels them as ‘threatening,’ creating a stigmatism around them. This stigma forces them to be outcasts in society who are not allowed to interact in the world around them. Their lack of social interactions is often sparked by an overall inability to interact due to disease; or because of the disregard and oppression from the general public. Their inability to interact with the world around them increases the stigma even more. The public views their differences as 'dangerous', much like the heroes in The Incredibles. Both groups are forced out of the public eye ‘for the better,' which creates fear. These fears then led to the creation of stigmatisms, which causes the overall out casting of the people. These stigmas are dangerous because they led to societal norms. Stigmatisms feed into the fears of the public, creating