I talked about this part of the movie in class. Essentially the Turtle tells the mouse that he has to let go of the illusion of control. The two debate whether or not we have control over things, and to what extent we have control. the whole conversation had clear Stoic undertones (possibly Buddhist, but I am not trained to claim that).
I found this entire conversation enlightening for several reasons. Essentially, the turtle is saying that we have little control over what happens in the world, but we do have the ability to choice whether or not to follow it. The turtle is simply expounding Stoic metaphysics. At the end of the clip, he even returns to nature. He gets carried of into the sky by a gust of wind and flower petals. That scene to me seemed to be overtly Stoic: he returns to nature upon his death becomes one with it.
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