If there is life after death, death is not so bad. We are basically alive, just moving nature. It's not so sad is it? But Pixar manages to find what is more sad than death through Coco . I will not reveal it, please find your own. What is clear, I do not suspect how one particular moment is successfully ruffled feelings. Bright, the director is Lee Unkrich who once made us traumatized with Toy Story 3 . I have prepared myself for having seen the various promotional materials, including synopsis and trailer. It's a theme about death, so I should be able to anticipate what kind of move Pixar will take to drain the tears. But it turns out, he is more than that. Taking the setting of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead that is celebrated every year in Mexico, Coco is also Pixar's way of touching aspects of life about tradition, dream, generation gap , and memory.
However, the film is also not one of Pixar's groundbreaking movies. Despite taking a very unique cultural background, the film moves in a proven frame and now feels very familiar to Pixar: the family. Beat per beat story seems like we've seen before. An experienced audience, even children, I'm sure I can guess how the movie runs. His adventures are not as visually visual. Nevertheless, it remains effective because, well , it has been tested for Pixar.
Our main character is a 12-year-old boy named Miguel ( Anthony Gonzalez , extraordinarily energetic) who tells his ancestors history to us at the beginning of the film. He lives with his extended family-including his father, mother, aunt, grandmother, and Coco's great-grandmother who now can only sit and begin to lose memory-in a Mexican village. This family is very anti with the music for decades, even heard street singers were not allowed.
Apparently the reason originated from his great-great-grandfather Miguel who had left his wife and daughter for pursuing a career as a musician. The wife, Imelda managed to get up and continue to live by becoming a shoemaker, a profession that was revealed generations later. All of this is told through a creative prologue that uses colored paper media that is cut in a particular motif that is a decoration on the Day of the Dead.
Music is then considered toxic in the family. But not for Miguel. In his spare time, he secretly studied the guitar while watching movies from his favorite legendary musician, Ernesto de la Cruz ( Benjamin Bratt ). On the Day of the Dead, Miguel wants to prove his talent, but the grandmother who knows this is destroying his guitar. His attempt to "borrow" the guitar of the late de la Cruz, apparently instead to take him to the world of the dead.
The dynamics of the community in the village of Miguel are made alive by Pixar, but Coco only appears entirely conspicuous as the story turns to the realm of the dead. The universe is like a kind of super-luxurious station, decorated with colors that spoil the eye. As the liaison of the world people live with the world of the dead is a giant bridge made of thousands (maybe, I do not count) flower petals glow orange. Not to mention alebrijas , the sacred creatures of Mexican legend who were visualized as mystical animals with neon colors on their bodies. The dead are described as cute skeletons and of course wear clothes. It's a children's movie. There are certain rules for the dead who want to cross into the real world or vice versa. This mechanism is quite complicated but is explained in such a way that even small children can understand easily.
For the quality of the animation, Pixar was never playing games. If most animation studios usually simplify characters and movement, Pixar does not take the shortcut. There are scenes where Miguel plays guitar and as a guitar player (numpang showy), I can say that every movement of fingers and quotes is right. Then, the wrinkles on Coco's grandmother's face ( Ana Ofelia Murguia ) that initially looked like joke material turned out to have a specific purpose for stirring emotions.
In the world of the dead, Miguel must get the blessing of his deceased ancestor to return home. On the way, he is accompanied by a street dog named Dante and a dead man who wants his photograph delivered to the real world, Hector ( Gael Garcia Bernhal ). You see, if no one puts a picture of a dead person in the real world, it will disappear forever. And Miguel's first goal was de la Cruz, which Miguel trusted as his great-grandfather. But meeting someone who is still a celebrity in the dead world is not easy.
Although not a musical film but Coco has several musical tracks. In a music contest that Miguel must follow to meet de la Cruz, he contracts with Hector in "Un Poco Loco". The final track "Remember Me", though not so impressive, is so effective at performing its primary function. If the child / you wants to be taught how to deal with the death of a loved one, then Coco is the first entertaining and touching experience. Create an adult as well. At least that's what I see from the audience watching with me at the cinema.
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