When I watched the trailer, I thought that the film co-produced by Disney and Pixar was similar to "Rock Tibetan Mastiff" and "Happy Voice" and other music dream-seeking themes with simple plots.
After watching it, I realized that pursuing dreams is only a traction line. This is more of a film that explores family relationships and also involves eternal themes such as death.
This is an animated cartoon about the Day of the Dead in Mexico.
The Day of the Dead is a traditional holiday that Mexicans pay special attention to. They believe that the people who have passed away have not really died, but will continue to live in another world. On the Day of the Dead, these dead people will come to the real world and Family get together.
Therefore, there is a grand celebration all over the country one day. People cut out skeletons from paper-cuts, make skull snacks, wear skeleton masks, sing and dance, and play everywhere, without the slightest sense of sadness.
The story in the movie happened on the day and night of the Day of the Dead.
Many strange things happened on this day, and the little boy entered a strange world full of colorful, crowded, lively, and full of skeletons.
With the dream of a musician, he embarked on his own dream-seeking journey in this world, looking for music idols that have died, and all kinds of incredible and interesting things followed.
However, the story is not novel. Fox once filmed the animated "Book of Life" with the Mexican Day of the Dead as the background material. The protagonist also carries a guitar;
Skeleton stems like "The Dead Bride" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" are also commonplace;
We also see a lot of dream-catching heroes who put music more important than anything else;
And all kinds of family members who obstruct the protagonist’s music dreams, the same family in the same world, it’s not uncommon;
In addition, there is a magnificent world built like "Crazy Animal City", ghost party orgy like "Hotel Wizard", and the marigold bridge leading to the real world also reminds people of the same golden dazzling stars in "Lunar God" ；
There are also defeating the big boss to complete the ultimate mission, etc., you see, they are all common routines used.
But because of these old-fashioned routines, Pixar has a way to make you intoxicated and moved to tears.
From 2011 to the present, the creative team has spent 6 years to go to Mexico to collect customs, live in the homes of locals, experience their lives, understand their customs, and have made full preparations for almost everything, including music and color. , Plot, scene and character creation, it took a lot of time and energy to make these pictures full of real details:
Colorful paper-cuts, golden marigolds, dingy hairless dogs, traditional food like long version of rice dumplings, family-style shoe shops, entertainment squares, local musical instruments, etc., are presented before our eyes.
The vertical towering buildings in the Land of Death have consulted and borrowed a lot of historical materials from Mexico. From the bottom to the top are the evolution from ancient times to modern times. These kinds of things can be seen from Pixar’s intentions. This is why its cartoons always One of the reasons that can bring us infinite surprises.
Family affection and music are two important elements of this movie.
So in terms of music, Pixar has also put a lot of effort into it, and there are many very good original music in it. The song is full of Latin style and the melody is very infectious. More than 50 musicians have been invited to perform, and many local Mexican instruments are used, which fully demonstrates the style of this musical paradise.
The various chord fingerings and performance details of the little boy playing guitar are also accurately and perfectly presented. It can be seen that they have paid a lot of effort and emotion for this.
What fascinates me most is the great-great-grandmother singing on the stage while avoiding the villain to prevent the other from getting the photo, and the climax of the film. The little boy and great-grandmother sang Remember Me together. like. I won't do too many spoilers here.
But I still can't help calling crazy for the animator. The great-grandmother's wrinkled and kind look is so realistic and cute. Careful polishing on these ordinary details is what touches us the most in the movie.
The English title of "Dream Journey" is "CoCo", Coco is the name of the great-grandmother, this nomenclature seems to remind us who is the real protagonist of this animation, just like "Kikujiro's Summer", the real male one The number is not a little boy, but a strange uncle Kitano Takeshi.
The movie itself is joyful, but it may be based on the sad core of death. It did not make people laugh. It only made people laugh, but it was enough.
It can make people feel happy and joyful from the heart, but also make you shed moving tears. That is a very amazing comedy. Such a movie is different from deliberately amusing without nutrition, nor is it blindly rendering suffering, it is a work of art that is higher than life, and such a work will have value worth watching.
Just like the O. Henry's ending, the first half an hour bombarded you with all kinds of splendid excitement, but in the last few minutes, the simplest and simplest method was used to impress you. Unprepared and unprepared, he fell into the trap of the director's painstaking efforts, tears shed in an instant.
I remember that the moment I watched this clip, the theater was surprisingly quiet. Everyone held their breath and stared at the movie screen, unwilling to miss any detail. I can feel the beauty of everyone immersed in the emotion of love and longing.
Sensational but not abusive, only telling but not preaching, the point is just right.
Like such movies, we need stories like this to remind and inform the vast majority of people the meaning of their existence in the world.
Death is not goodbye, forgetting is. If someone remembers you, you still have concerns in your heart. This is the great happiness and meaning of being alive.
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