Why Amazon Is Trying To Find Nemo
Finding Nemo Is Just Too Popular!
There are times when I feel a little like Marlin, the Daddy Clown Fish in Pixar Productions Film ‘Finding Nemo’. Am I too overprotective of Amazon?
We’ve lived without a television for nearly five years, and truly feel a lot better for it. Television used to bring into our lives bad news that we were powerless to change; advertisements for products which we didn’t want, or if we did then we probably didn’t need, and lots of gratuitous violence, frequently in American cartoons that we could all do without.
But Amazon has grown up with a DVD player upon which she’s been exposed to the whole gamut of movies that Irem and I enjoy. These tend toward the ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ genre, rather than the ‘Ripley’s Game’ type, [although of its kind I think Ripley’s Game Is A Good Movie, and very well filmed’.
A couple of days ago we visited our local D&R store in Marmaris and bought a few oldies such as ‘The Sting’. Amazon chose ‘Finding Nemo’ so we bought that DVD too.
We’ve now watched ‘Finding Nemo’ every day, at least three times a day since purchasing the movie. We’ve watched the bonus material. We’re becoming experts on underwater fish, animation, and know the geography of Pixar Animation Studios intimately ~ and Irem and I are completely fed up.
The first word that Amazon utters in the morning is ‘Fish’. She goes on to say ‘Fish’. She can even make fish sound like a question by raising her inflexion ‘Fish?’
Today the TV and DVD player has been put into storage in a cupboard. Amazon still asks ‘Fish’, but seems to understand that the fish are no longer to be found, at least for the time being?
March 19th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
[...] It’s been just a week since we put the TV and DVD in the cupboard. After a few hours of Amazon asking for the ‘fish‘ she started to entertain herself and us in other ways. [...]