Disabilities and Fish

Pixar's Finding Nemo is being screened at the Manhattan JCC's Disabilities Film Festival. I hadn't ever thought of this as a film about disabilities but then again I guess it is (Nemo has a deformed fin). Not only does Pixar consistently produce insanely good movies, but it also has a social conscience (cf. anti-consumerist tropes in Wall-E). Perhaps it's overstating the case, but one Pixar film might do more to raise awareness about disabilities or overconsumption than a whole raft of well-meaning nonprofits can do in a decade... sobering, and probably tells us more about our culture than it does about Pixar or the issues.