Although not as groundbreaking as "Inside Out" or "The Incredibles," Coco has an incredibly intriguing lead that melts the heart, bringing audiences on a journey of meaning discovery, and the value of passion. Miguel's family - has a burning passion for music.
Musical legend, idol of the protagonist.
Miguel was born into a family where traditional crafts are shoe making. However, he was completely uninterested in the family business.
All he wants is music, playing music. Ironically, hatred of music is also the tradition of the family. You are prohibited from accessing music in any form without really understanding why.
On the holiday for the dead, the discontented boy attempts to steal the guitar of Mexican music legend Ernesto de la Cruz - also his idol, who has inspired life, passed on the passionate fire, and transmitted The courage to oppose the family to live as true human.
The path is full of beautiful flowers to the land of the dead.
Through the guitar, he was taken to the land of the dead without knowing it. Becoming a soul, the boy is subjected to the blessings of the dead family members in the mortal world to return to earth.
From there, he enters the adventure of discovering the truth of the success, the importance of the family, and bringing audiences into Mexico's mysterious and cultural values.
Like the Vietnamese culture of the seventh lunar month, or the western culture with Halloween, Día de los Muertos is a tribute to the deceased in Mexican culture.
But contrary to the common thought of the sadness of death, the festival brings the color of music, the warmth of the sweet memories that the living for the dead.
Because of this, the two directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina have brought to the audience extremely colorful land with colorful colors, where dead people "live" is no different from the human world, such as The wealth of the poor, through the offering of the dead, and especially the dead, will "die one last time" if there is no one on earth.
Miguel discovered the sadness of the dead, so his journey, from wanting to be recognized family passion for music, also a journey to understand the importance of the family, the photo worship , of the beautiful memories that because of time, people will gradually forget their own relatives, ancestors.
One of the most moving images of the film is when the character Hector sings the last song to show that his friend is about to disappear because no one remembers
Miguel and Hector are mysterious.
The message of true deep forgotten, closely linked with two family words
In the end, even if we pursue passion, to the end who are the last to stay with us at failure is the family.
People worship idols for his song, but in the end people only remember his relatives.
Not only rich in meaning, Coco also built a world of dead beautiful with a meticulous extremely admirable. The world of the dead thus appears colorful, alive with bones full of expression and personality differences as humans.
Coco is hardly to say that a movie is entirely for children, although with the colorful colors of children's eye, but the depths that the director wants to convey in the film completely over. their recognition.
It is that with Coco, Pixar is completely worth the wait of the mass audience.
Coco - an adult teardrop animation
Shapes the characters in "Coco".
However, the movie does not really reach the overwhelming emotions like Inside Out, the humorous, unadulterated humor, the character accompanying Miguel during his adventurous journey is not attractive enough; An important part to push the audience's enjoyment is just average compared to works such as Wall-E or Toy Story.