Laura Onstot recently settled into a movie theater seat, thinking that Pixar’s Elemental was going to be a science-themed movie about the periodic table of elements. (“I really should start watching the trailers,” she admits.) Instead, she says, it’s a combination rom-com and commentary on issues like xenophobia. “But there’s another theme running throughout, one that really caught my attention and held it,” she writes. “The main character spends her life trying to please her parents, even though it makes her miserable.” And today she’s got some thoughts about why she really needed that story.