I enjoyed my time spent watching "Waking Sleeping Beauty". Not only was it relevant for a class full of students who most likely grew up with most of the films being discussed, but it was relevant for any artist who thinks that they want to go to work for a corporation like Disney. Getting the inside view of things from that perspective made the story interesting in ways that a reporter could not capture. Which then leads us to the point of "truth". And I say "truth", not truth, because truth is only real int he eyes of that who is looking upon it. Maybe truth to me is that RWU has too many rules. That is truth. But for an administrator, the student body gets away with many things that could be rules or are rules that are not properly enforced. Also truth! Same problem, both truths!
I think that this film shows truth from the perspective of the narrator and the perspective of a creative animation staff at Disney. Yes, it could be seen as a little one sided, but being a human being makes us understand our internality and makes us try and fail to understand that of others. Without letting this post become to unrelated, I believe that this film was successful in the way it portrayed and story and characters as well as showed a truth can could only be seen from one perspective but was full and accurate in that sense.
With that being said, I also found this film to almost be a high school reunion tape. It gave the feeling that this is how things "used to be" back in the days of their glory, or dismay. I felt an emotional attachment to the staff members and the content, which makes me want to then understand and take in the film as a whole. In the end, I think this film is something that both I enjoy for content and craft.
-Caitlin Holton
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