After reading it, I could not help but shed cheap tears, but I still felt that something was wrong. After discussing it with my colleagues at noon today, it was relatively smooth.
At the heart of Coco's conflict is family and dream. But this set of oppositions is not strong enough on its own. What happens in the story is more of an accident. Not all families are the opposite of dreams, and not all dreams mean abandoning the family.
At the end of the story, Miguel finds out that his grandfather's dream was to sing to one person, Coco, and not to the world, and the dream and the family are reconciled—again by accident.
Is there a distinction between ideals? Is music sung to one person more worthy of praise than music sung to the whole world?
I had to complain about forcibly blackening Dekulas in order to emboss an already fragile center.
It gives the impression that it is impossible to find any flaws in the dream of "singing to the world" itself. I had no choice but to make a bad mark on the behavior of the dreamer who had this dream other than music.
So, what is MiG finally abandoning is the criminal of plagiarism and murder, or is it his own dream? Could "sing it to the world" and plagiarism and murder in the mind of this film are equivalent crimes?
What if Dekulas was also kind and talented? If he was just expelled and forgotten by his family innocently and alone, how would MiG reconcile the conflict between his family and his dreams?
Forcibly blackening in order to promote the development of the plot, and using this blackening to make the protagonist make choices on irrelevant things, and put on a high attitude, and choose a useless heroine because the second female lead is vicious. What is the difference between the plots of dog blood Korean dramas?
If the conflict between personal fulfillment and family responsibilities cannot be reconciled, face it. Even if it is a family-friendly work of an animated film, it should not be assumed that the audience is all underage children.
If only the concepts of family and death are taken out and written, without introducing the element of dream-seeking, it will be more chicken soup, but at least it will be logically consistent chicken soup. Chicken soup with inconsistent logic is poisonous.
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The above is a little bit of the logic of the plot.
In fact, in terms of characters, main line, action design, plot conflicts, including character image design, Coco is not as good as last year's "Zootopia". Even the male protagonist Miguel, if he wants to write a biography of a character, will feel that he is lacking in writing.
It's reasonable to have so much difference at the box office.
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