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The movie also treats her as being incredibly selfish for rejecting Gene's fairy-tale views of romance. It seems to suggest that you can only save the day by following tradition, since revealing herself as a princess is treated as an empowering moment.
The most significant female character other than the villain, Jailbreak, fits three out of those six characteristics. There is also Gene's mother Mary, who's little more than a particularly emotionless Extreme Doormat and Akiko Glitter, who's a genuine Nice Girl but who is so expendable that our hero Gene leaves her to die in the trash can. The only female emojis we see with major speaking roles are Smiler, a generic order obsessed villain who runs society like a dictator, a generic princess, Jailbreak, a Jerkass who accomplishes nothing except breaking Gene's heart, and the generic love interest. note Though to be fair, the movie generally struggles in the interestingly written character department. For a movie where women have "limitless potential" there don't seem to be any interestingly written female characters.Hi-5 never dumps his narcissistic ways to become a more well rounded emoji.Gene quickly discards the idea of leaving the phone forever.
Jailbreak learns to stop valuing her freedom and reverts back to being a Princess.Aspects of the caste system still remain intact as the unpopular emojis remain in the Loser Lounge.It was Alex who stopped it because his crush was so Easily Impressed, and the movie fails to call him out for attempting to delete the phone data. After all, Gene didn't stop the phone from being erased. If emojis wanted to become more than merely vessels of conveying ideas or express whatever they feel, then Alex could simply delete them as they would have outlived their usefulness.In Real Life, the pressure to conform can easily prevent people from being themselves. The movie constantly validates the idea that they should only pursue society's intended purpose for them. Emojis were invented for this very specific purpose, so Textopolis is a terrible metaphor. However, there is still the fact that they are stuck with one ''function'', to serve Alex. Sure, Smiler was defeated and the Emojis learn that it's perfectly fine to express more than one emotion. Wisecrack Edition made the case that the lesson of "you should reject societal expectations and express who you truly wish to be" couldn't escape unbroken.This is especially ironic considering that the main focus was about Gene learning to reject the oppressive caste system and express himself, instead of just performing his one function. One wants to conform and learns to value freedom, while another wants freedom and ends up conforming. Gene and Jailbreak's stories essentially cancel each other out, message-wise.In fact, it does such a bad job with its Aesops that it's the first individual piece of media ever to have a Broken Aesop subpage. They get broken and lost while the main lesson is handled cluelessly.
The Emoji Movie doesn't do a very good job at conveying its morals, to say the least.
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