Essay 1-03b: The attraction of "Lilo & Stitch"

Disney has given us many hopes and dreams. Anybody must have been excited to that dreamlike world once at least. Magic and miracle that cannot be reality can happen in Disney animated movies. Those always include some moral. Therefore Disney world catches mind of children and adults. "Lilo & Stitch" is a brand new story that is different from other ones a little. This movie speaks to us important things. So what on earth is the attraction of this story?

First of all, Stitch is different from any other characters. Disney’s main characters are usually very nice, but Stitch is ferocious and bad. And he knows only destruction, and doesn't have emotions because he is an alien that was created scientific. He is expelled to the earth. Was there ever such bad main character in Disney?

Lilo and her older sister Nani had the problem. It was more realistic and serious than the problem other characters had. They had lived by themselves because they lost their parents. They nearly became separate though they were family. Lilo cannot get along with the other children, and was not in good with Nani.

Then such solitary Stitch met solitary Lilo. Stitch became Lilo's first friend. Lilo disciplines Stitch in order to be together. The magic in this story is that Stitch who knew only destruction gets to have emotions. Lilo's selfless love changes Stitch which doesn't know love.

Another point is that is set in Hawaii. There is "Ohana" spirit there. Lilo says, “Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten.” Hawaiian people consider ohana is trust each other, allow each other, and support each other. It is a word of magic that brings happiness.

There is Stitch which didn’t know love, and there is Lilo who lost love, and they meet in Hawaii. This movie is filled of the factors that warm mind of people such as friendship and love of one's family. And loveable Stitch and pure Lilo always touch the hearts of the people. Perhaps, the attraction of this movie is those things. In addition, in all Disney movies, this is a movie that contains realistic elements most, so it may have won the sympathy of many. “Lilo & Stitch” superbly fused fantasy and reality, and it is warm movie though strange. It may be tender movie that only Disney can create.

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