I didn't pay much attention to the second time I watched Journey to the Dream Ring. I teased the dog and watched it, but I didn't get much.
The third time I watched Journey to the Dream Ring, I was eating, and I took a few takeaways. I found that this movie was more delicious than rice.
This is an animated film about dreams and family, life and death. It tells the story that Miguel, the hero, dreams of standing on the stage to realize his musical dream one day, but enters the mysterious soul world by mistake, and embarks on an adventure journey with the down-and-out musician Hector.
As Pixar's first animated film with music as its theme, Journey to the Dream Ring has a unique idea, a completely different style, bizarre and gentle horror humor, and an undead world with a wide brain opening, which creates a story for the audience to face death.
The whole film is based on the traditional Mexican festival "Day for the Dead" culture, from colorful paper-cuts to various traditional Mexican foods in the film, and then to various customs of the Day for the Dead. During the day, there are fireworks, painted walls and dusty streets, but at night, people walk across the bridge to the world of the dead. The wet alleys, strange and full lights are in sharp contrast with the world on earth during the day.
"I have to defy Pixar and discuss the meaning of dreams, success and family with you; While using all kinds of imaginative plots, pictures and music, you will be amazed; How can you not love such a movie? " This is a movie review that I like very much. In Journey to the Dream Ring, Pixar's ability to create the world is still online, although at first glance it is not as outstanding as the previous films such as Finding Nemo and Monster Company. It is relatively simple to sell, and the unique setting of the dead people makes the whole film seem not very pleasing, so I watched it twice at the beginning. But he constructed an imaginative world, a grand world of the dead, magnificent and gorgeous, with dreams, love and affection, which were integrated and inseparable. He left you his own answers and questions.
Mama Coco is the name of the hero's great-grandmother, but the original name was DiadelosMuertos, which is the Day of the Dead. However, as soon as this name came out, it was questioned and opposed by many parties. In 213, Disney applied for the trademark "Día de los Muertos", but this move was undoubtedly "stealing" the traditional Mexican culture, which immediately aroused mexican american's dissatisfaction. Mexican-American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz made a movie poster by combining Mickey Mouse with the skeleton to protest against Disney's trademark of their culture. More than 21, people signed a petition on the website, arguing that Disney's trademark registration is a typical cultural exploitation. A week later, Disney cancelled its registration and issued an official statement: "The trademark application aims at protecting the film and related products and activities, and the name of the film will be changed, so we will withdraw the trademark application."
In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is an extremely important festival, and the whole story takes place on the night of the Day of the Dead. For Mexicans, the dead will come back on this day to meet their relatives in the world, which spans the reunion of life and death. It is not difficult to explain why Mexicans think that death is another continuation and do not regard death as a very painful thing, because the dead people have their own other world.
In the words of the director, it is:
"Death is a part of life, and people always ignore its existence and can't believe it. But it is clear that we all have to face it and experience it. This cruel and powerful reality, I am proud that we have never hidden it. "
back to COCO, she is the connection point between memory and reality, the past and the future in the film. this old lady in a wheelchair, who has few lines, occupies an important position in the film. She is the only connection point between the dead world and the real world. Why is it the only one? Because no one in the Riveras family remembers him except her. Because Grandfather abandoned his wife to pursue his dream of music, they were convinced that they were cursed by music, so that they despised music for generations.
The person whose ancestral spirit has been removed is lonely. Only COCO remembers him, even though he is old, and even if he has never seen him again in the rest of his life, this beloved little daughter still remembers him, just like the song in Remember Me: "Remember me before the memory of love disappears."
Journey to the Dream Ring is about life and disappearance, love and dreams, so the whole film is based on the background of death, even if it doesn't make people laugh, it can make people smile when it is comforted and moved.
In the mysterious soul world, Miguel met the down-and-out Hector, and together they embarked on the road to find Draculus. Draculus was a Mexican musician of the god of songs before his death, and Miguel admired him very much, and he thought Draculus was a great grandfather who abandoned his wife to pursue his musical dream. Is this really the case?
There is a kind of god beast in the world of the undead. They are the soul messengers from the soul to the world, and these spirit beasts are just the reflection of the master's heart and their embodiment. As Miguel's spirit beast, Danny the dog leads him to the world of the undead. Just like Miguel, Danny the dog is simple and brave. Facing his dream, he put all his eggs in one basket, and entered the world of the undead by mistake in order to get his great-grandfather's guitar to participate in a music competition. But the big tiger in the undead world, the little pumpkin, is just a kitten in the world. In the undead world, it has become a fierce tiger, perhaps because the owner-Miguel's great grandmother imelda, a strong and gentle undead woman, vowed to let her family stop touching music after the musician's husband abandoned his family and disappeared, and raised Miguel's great-grandmother COCO by learning shoe-making skills.
So imelda can't understand why her husband would rather abandon his family and pursue his dreams regardless. Isn't the family worth guarding? I can't understand why my daughter still remembers this irresponsible father, and I can't understand why my great-great-grandson has to embark on the road of music.
When Miguel and Drakus found him, the heavy fog about Hector was uncovered. He was not choked to death by sausage, which other undead laughed at, but was poisoned, and he was poisoned on his way home. Tracing back to history, Hector was framed by his peers and poisoned to death, and the star of music fell, but it was replaced by Della Cruz, who had no talent and was greedy for vanity.
Hector lives a bleak life in the world of the dead, and like a few forgotten dead people, he lives in the lowest wet and shabby area. Therefore, every year on the Day of the Dead, no one gives him an offering, but in order to return to the world to meet his daughter, he always tries his best, which is funny but bitter.
All the mysteries are solved, the bad guys are punished, and the Miguel family will finally reunite. This is a real reunion. I found that everything was a misunderstanding many years ago, so those who can't understand it now have an answer.
There are three deaths in a person's life, the first one is biological death, breathing stops and the heart stops beating;
The second death was announced by the outside world, and your death reached the ears of people you know and people you don't know. They felt sorry for you, felt sorry for you, or didn't care;
The third time is a real death. In this world, no one remembers you for what you care about or hate.
So, we don't know whether the undead who have not been enshrined have become ghosts. Maybe when they are completely forgotten in the world, they will face real death, and their souls will turn into golden powder and float in the air with the wind.
In the film, after MiG lost the photo of Hector, Paikert's soul began to disappear little by little, and this scene is undoubtedly the biggest tear. How sad it is to see his relatives disappear a little before his eyes, and his heartache is beyond measure. Thanks to COCO, my great grandmother, who filled in the missing corner of the photo in time, Ekto's soul was saved and Miguel's family was reunited.
about family, about dreams, about death, and the multiple reversals and counter-routines in "Journey to the Dream Circle" can always make people exclaim: So that's it ...
Then, about death, a heavy topic, most people always avoid talking about it, but we have to face up to death. Those who are happy and sad seem to be insignificant in the face of death. The so-called life and death are bigger than the sky.
After death, it may be in another world, or it may really disappear forever, but I want to believe that forgetting is really the last disappearance.
so before the memory of love disappears, please remember.
Look at Travel Notes of the Dream Ring again: Forgetting is the real passing away.