Can Disney’s films really stir people’s innermost feelings and arouse resonance? Now, I seem to understand why some of my friends are so passionate about Disney.
“Coco” is a film produced in 2017 by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. In Santa Cecilia, Mexico, Miguel, the main character, is a 12-year-old Mexican boy from a family who inherited a shoemaking business. Miguel is special. He dreams of becoming a musician, but his family strongly disagrees and forbids it because everyone thinks that they are cursed by music.
In his secret pursuit of his music dream, Miguel steps on the Land of the Dead because he touches a guitar. Every year, on the festival of the dead, the dead families return to the world to reunite with their relatives, but no one has ever been to the world of the dead. Miguel is shocked by the colorful and gorgeous world of the dead. What surprises him even more is when he meets his deceased grandparents again. His family in the land of the dead wants to find a way to help Miguel return to the real world. The statues are the channel to his family home.
The memory of staying in the divine power keeps the undead alive. The lively music is the medicine that wakes up the missing and restless. A complete world outlook based on cultural tradition excavates the significance of death and memory. The gorgeous and lively undead world is fascinating, and Pixar’s technical advantages are reflected incisively and vividly. The story is more like the Mexican music video version of “Up” and “Inside Out.” The warmth of the family corresponds to the collapse of idols, and the rebellious growth and dreams always have a home.
The rule in the movie is quite reasonable. The death of a person is not the end of his existence because he is still “alive” in the memory of the people around him. When people slowly forget him, the trace of his existence in the world gradually disappears until it seems that he has never ever appeared before.
