Movie - Finding Nemo, By Pixar (2003)
Movie summary - Marlin is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son, Nemo, the only survivor after an undersea predator swallowed up Nemo's mother and her other offspring. It's not Marlin's nature to explore unfamiliar waters, but when he and Nemo are accidentally separated near the Great Barrier Reef en route to Nemo's first day of fish school, Marlin gathers his courage and sets out to find his son. What Marlin doesn't know, however, is that while Nemo was looking at a boat passing on the surface, he was caught in a net and given a new home in a dentist's aquarium. As Marlin searches for his son, he makes friends with a friendly but absent-minded Regal Blue Tang named Dory, a Great White Shark named Bruce, who is trying to cut fish out of his diet, a beach-rat Sea Tortoise named Crush, and Nigel, a Pelican who can take Marlin's search from the ocean to dry land.
Concepts - The movie's key messages is that teamwork can help you achieve more than you can achieve by yourself. Clearly, teamwork and cooperation are vital to success and achievement. I especially love the scene when the net caught hundreds of fish including Marlin and Dory. At first, the hundreds of fish were just swimming frantically in every direction, then as Nemo’s found out that the fish better to swim down together and chanting the phrase in unison. They make headway, putting pressure on the part of the boat that held up the net, and it eventually snaps, allowing the net to crash into the ocean floor and free lots of gleeful fish. The event also rightfully shocks the men on the boat! I get so much from this scene. First of all, how often do people go in their own direction when faced with a problem rather than collaborating efforts and sticking together? The effort is always more impactful when there is a team rather than an individual. Also, how rare are Nemo and Marlin as leaders in this situation? They were not the ones trapped, but out of compassion for those that were, they stepped in and led. They did not sheepishly yell from the sidelines, thinking that no one would listen, but they aggressively chanted with faith that others would catch on.
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I happened to watch the training program that SEAL Team (US Naval Special warfare group) undergo in Military channel and the instructor for the program said that the first thing that they do it try to break your individuality and make everyone work and think as a team. I guess it must be the same for the Marines or the SWAT team to, but here they operate under very tight constraints. Members of the SEAL Team 6 are selected in part because of the different special skill that each one brings to the team. When they deployed they are a perfect example of team work.
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