Film Theory: Is Dory FAKING? (Finding Dory)

How can you not love Dory? Our own lovable reed dweller who serves as a faithful companion to clownfish of finding Nemo by singing happy song, just keepin' swimming, and FILLING OUR MINDS WITH LIES. Today on Film Theory, we analyze the symptoms displayed on screen by Dory to see whether her symptoms would actually align with her condition of retrograde amnesia, or whether she's been lying to us all along...

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[Jasper]

Dory: ARE YOU CALLING ME A LIAR?

Mattpat: I’M NOT CALLING YOU A TRUTHER!

[adrianjohnmanuel]

When you realize you were laughing at bad fish puns:

...Carp..

[oh]

*Watching Film Theory to get away from homework on Ancient Rome*
Matpat: "The answer lies in Ancient Rome"
Me: "Oh Jesus Christ..."



i dont have anything against history or ancient rome, i just hate homework ok

[thelanktheist]

Hold on…
In finding Dory, her parents actually said and encouraged the fact she had short term memory loss. Dory believed it and told it to others.

What if Dory’s parents were really the faking ones and just put it into her head that she did have a disability? An intense version of the placebo effectz

[fox-a-bellaj]

Imagine being the one making this movie, then watching this and being like...


*Well, carp*

[gciske]

So Nemo in Latin means Nobody.

Disney Pixar's:

Finding NOBODY.

[OrigamiAhsoka]

“Hey what movie are you watching”

“It’s about a man who’s wife was brutally murdered, and who’s disabled son was kidnapped several years later. In order to find his son he must get the help of a mentally disabled woman and travel across the entire world.”

“Wow that’s dark, what’s it called?”

“Finding Nemo.”

[doudou]

4:53 Actually, Claudius faked his problems too. When he was younger, he was stuttering, but with time it went away, bur he continued to fake it. He was acting really dumb too, all of that to make everyone believe he wasn’t a treat. Then one day, the army elected him to be the emperor so they can control him and they can all control Rome but Claudius took that chance to become the new emperor.

[ckayyy]

*WHEN PIXAR SEE'S THIS VIDEO*

Sh*t.
We forgot that part.

[rizqirizaldo]

Dory: I saw a boat...
Phil Swift: *IN HALF*

[Stereo]

I will not laugh at fish puns.
I will not laugh at fish puns.
I will not laugh at fish puns.
**laughs at fish puns**
CRAP.

[xenogax]

Just now rewatching this I realize:
Dory always reminded me of an aunt.
That specific aunt turned out to be a manipulative witch that doesn't care for anyone but herself and brought a lot of problems to the family.
I kept feeling bad still relating Dory to her cuz ya know, its Dory, she cute.

But with this theory... yeah. Dory=aunt is still pretty accurate. Cute and seemingly harmless on the outside, dark and twisted on the inside. Little me was always right lmaoo

[kinos]

Finding Dory comes out: I'm about to end this man whole theory

[DaDoppen]

How would someone with short term memory loss know that they have short term memory loss in the first place?

[FBI-epts]

This movie can be summed up by: Depressed, widowed father, teamed up with mentally challenged women to find his disabled son

[TheOneAndOnlyQuartzBuilder]

But MatPat, the boat dory was saying she saw was probably not the boat that took nemo, but a boat she saw before she had short term memory loss

[TheoryWitch]

When this episode of Film Theory is actually helping you prep for your Psycholgy exam, thanks MatPat!!!

[zacharywambold]

So I know I'm a little late, but I had a thought. Dory says she's seen "A" Boat, that could just mean she recollects seeing boats in her long life under where apparently fishermen fish. So it could be said that little "Slip-up" is being misread here, I mean I don't even think she swims in the direction the boat went, we can't really know when they hit each other and lost their directions, met with sharks, and THEN knew where to go thanks to the mask. Idk, I read too much into cartoons too.

[andythememer]

Who knew Ancient Rome had guns and AK-47

[mprxherie]

Actually strong emotionally responses are associated with long term memory meaning that since Dory saw Nemo get kidnapped she could have been triggered remembering seeing the boat