Coco” is Pixar after a relatively weak production period, once again surprisingly an animation work beyond expectations, the film restored Pixar’s usual production standards, character faces and physical movements in the smallest detail to show exquisite carving, the plot in a reasonable range of Pixar’s good use of the formulaic story mode, but the effect is surprisingly good, several times tear-jerking.
Pixar team as the world’s top animation team, with “Coco” once again proved that good animation is not only good to have a wonderful narrative and sophisticated picture, but more importantly, the top animation production contains enough inspiring and thoughtful life proposition to make people weep, which is Pixar as a first-class animation creation team to bring the audience another surprise.
The film’s plot is simple, but the moral is timeless and profound, the film tells the story of a young boy Miguel dreamed of becoming a musician, and hope that he can and idol Drakus, like the god of song, to create the music that moves the heart, but his family has forbidden generations of clan members to contact music. Miguel is obsessed with music and is eager to prove his musical talent, but because of a series of strange events, he comes to a colorful and mysterious world. There, Miguel meets the charming, down-on-his-luck musician Ector, and together they embark on an amazing journey to discover the unknown past of the Miguel family, and begin a story that will shock the heart, move the extraordinary, and never forget the journey.
New creativity under the patterned story
Coco” belongs to the typical master narrative level, the beginning of a series of seemingly routine Miguel dream of learning the piano, encountered family opposition, from then on to fight back, boldly chasing their dreams, so that people look through the routine plot, but just when the audience felt disappointed, Pixar threw out the world of the Mexican undead this very imaginative and charming amazing ideas.
This is Pixar, a seemingly clichéd and bland story together, but in the standard narrative structure to find the audience’s inner breakthrough, like a calm chivalrous, not showy, not to engage in those fancy filming techniques and narrative structure, simple sequential narrative to Miguel from the pursuit of dreams of the clichéd theme immediately extended to the bridge of loved ones in the world of the undead, so that people suddenly realize that the original Miguel is just a The role of the needle, the film will eventually be Miguel’s great-great-grandmother COCO’s family story, killing the audience caught off guard, hiding their faces and crying.
The world of the dead is shown with the warning of cherishing the present world
The world of cinema is sometimes amazing, it can take you to that place you have never reached and can not reach. First of all, the film is based on the local culture of Mexico, the real restoration of Mexican families love the tradition of music, the street corner of the wandering singers, the exquisite customs of the Day of the Dead, the Mexican marigold to send the memory of loved ones, Pixar will Mexican culture and local characteristics into the film, shaped an immersive journey to Mexico, the film used almost all the elements are taken from the real life of Mexico, as if A journey is quite warm.
Secondly, the first half of the film itself is not much of an attractive node, but the film from the middle of the force, gradually showing the spectacle of the undead cemetery to visit relatives, the ultimate in security checks in the world of the undead, the rules of operation, all have many similarities with the real world, so that people can not help but wonder in a trance whether there will really be a world of the undead? The design of the skull represents the person after death, and the age of death determines the age and appearance of each undead in that world of theirs.
The undead world is essentially a replica of the real world, so people from the real world construct the classes, cultures and hobbies of the undead world, so you can see that people in the undead world also love music, respect the gods of song, and still have people who live rich lives, but some become fallen undead, without lovers, and keep each other warm. Pixar’s greatness is to let the audience see here, can bring enlightenment to the living, let everyone who has seen more or less reflect on whether they have cherished their loved ones, whether they really give warmth to the people of this real world, warm people still warm after death, cold people still miserable after death, teaching people to grasp the present world, do not let themselves regret, but this little idea, it is enough to be praised.
The concept of life and death is reinterpreted
There is a classic line in “Coco”, which is also a pillar of belief that holds the whole film together: “When no one remembers you in real life, that’s the day you disappear in another world. It redefines what is life and death. Going to the world of the dead is not really death, because you still live in the hearts of relatives and friends, while those in the real world who are cold by nature and have no one to remember them must not have brought warmth to others, and therefore are forgotten.
When Miguel’s great-great-grandfather was about to leave, Coco slowly lost the memory of his father, Coco always treasured the missing corner of the photo, but she never took it out, in fact, her heart also had some complaints about her father, to her father, Coco has both miss and blame the complex emotions, but when Miguel returned to the real world, re-played the song that his father sang to Coco as a child “Do not forget”, all the memories. Don’t forget”, all the memories are back to the beautiful childhood, although the twists and turns of family love, but the emotion of blood is thicker than water is eternal, coco finally reached an understanding of her father, understand that her father did not abandon her, but has always loved her, coco took out the missing corner of the photo, this is a release of affection and reconciliation, cherish the things around you when you were born, do not let time become idle.
This film is a very innovative subject matter and narrative techniques, the distance between life and death will be wirelessly reduced, Pixar films are extremely good at the effect of the sensational mode will lead the audience’s emotions to the climax, the director in the handling of the soundtrack, showing an excellent aesthetic ability of sound and picture, from the plot to the soundtrack have laid the cornerstone of the film’s success.
Coco even once reminded me of a top stop-motion animation “Kubo and the Two Strings” released last year, also about the pursuit, also about the pursuit of the journey to realize the love of kinship, and ultimately, with the love of kinship as the armor, the war God death and fear, the difference is that Pixar in the level of affection dug more profound, the concept of life and death and kinship to form a link, the construction of a magical and warm Pixar world The world of Pixar is full of magic and warmth. When Miguel’s great-great-grandmother finally left with a peaceful smile at that moment, I think her heart is probably no longer sad, decades later finally can meet with his father, those who have not finished the fate of the renewal, in another world, become warm and complete it.
