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I entered the cinema three minutes late because I forgot the time at the concert of the male god in the karaoke bar. After going in, I saw a big man carrying a guitar encouraging the shoeshine boy to "seize the opportunity", and I was even more impressed by Sanmao's wandering.
Ordinary suppressed my imagination. When the little boy MiG left home for a talent show competition on the Day of the Dead, I also made up a dream-chasing story about musical dreams in The Sound of XX.
I don't know anything about the Day of the Dead, but I see non-white characters, strange English pronunciation and song and dance scenes. Until I browsed the film reviews, I always thought it was a story set in India, but it was actually a cultural tradition of Mexico, a South American country. Interestingly, the friendship between this country and the film-making country, the United States, is not friendly at this time.
In order to participate in the talent competition, the little boy MiG sneaked into the grave of the God of Songs on the night of the Day of the Dead and borrowed his guitar. After people found out that the guitar was stolen, MiG, who was cursed by everyone, crossed into the world of the undead. MiG, who was frightened, rushed out of the tomb of the god of songs and saw the dead relatives and skeleton-shaped figures, which really made my hair stand on end for a while. But when those skeletons gradually became full of personality, they were all relatives who died at the MiG family table. These skeletons made people feel close.
Then, in order to help MiG return to the real world, his dead relatives took him to visit the undead world and look for his great-great-grandmother.
In the animated films I watched in recent years, I was shocked by two scenes.
One is Disney's Zootopia, which was released last year. Tutu went to the animal city by train from his hometown and saw the scene of the animal city on the train. With the background music of "Try Everything", I sat in the seat of the cinema with my mouth wide open in the dark, and my head was full of gongs and drums and firecrackers: Oh, my God!
At that moment, I really felt the meaning of the idiom "at a loss".
The second one is in Dream Tour Ring. The dead relatives took MIG to the bridge paved with marigold petals, which shone with warm orange light. Across the bridge is the world of the dead, with bright lights on both sides. I opened my mouth wide again, at a loss: my god, how did this come out!
Maybe my imagination was born short. It was not until I visited the world of death that my impression of this film changed from "The Voice of XX" to life and affection.
Accurately speaking, this is a story about life, affection and dreams.
Everyone has different standards for judging good movies, or everyone has different standards for judging everything outside. However, for most people, if they can find something that resonates and evokes memories from the judged object, most people will kiss and enjoy it.
I have read Van Gogh's Sunflower, Self-portrait and Starry Moon Night in middle school art textbooks ... but I have no feelings for this great painter. Until a few years ago, I saw a Van Gogh exhibition in China. Of course, there is no such national treasure, but there is one that makes me very moved. I don't remember the name. It shows parents and their toddlers playing in the garden at home. This painting reminds me of my childhood, my parents and my hometown in the countryside. From then on, I no longer felt that Van Gogh was a cold name in textbooks and art galleries, and I seemed to begin to understand the reason why Van Gogh was great.
The same is true of movies.
This film, made in the United States and depicting Mexican customs, has won the favor of China people who are totally different from their regions and cultures. One of the reasons is that what the film expresses resonates with us.
In our tradition, home is very important. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival are all connected in series with family as the line. The surname and generation of each newborn child show the continuation of a family; There are many families, family styles, tutors and even family laws passed down from generation to generation. Because of their emphasis on family, many children in China are accustomed to a big family when they grow up, and the old and young get together, which is particularly similar to the scene of family gathering on the night of the Day of the Dead depicted in the movie.
Every family, from the nobility to the royal family to the ordinary family, as long as it pays attention to the continuity of the family and the warmth of their loved ones, it is inevitable that the newly grown children in the family will want to rebel. I believe that most people in the cinema, more or less, have betrayed their families. When we were growing up, many people, like MiG, had conflicting dreams and family expectations. Parents want you to go back to your hometown to be a teacher or a civil servant, but you want to work hard in a big city while you are young; Parents prefer you to find a suitable person to marry at home, but you prefer the distant girl you met on the train; Parents want you to do well in the college entrance examination, but you don't want to put down your brush or guitar ... so the contradiction between family expectations and your own imagined future is staged in turn in the growth experience of thousands of people, so we may also see ourselves and our families from this little boy.
In the end, the little boy MiG found his real great-grandfather, and he was treated leniently by his family in the process of pursuing his dream. How similar this is to us. Many children who resist the family finally get the "lenient" side of the family, and we are surrounded by family, and we are fearless after all.
Many people in the film critics say "from beginning to end". For me, this story is really beyond imagination.
I watched it with my sister and walked on the way back to the rental house. At this time, the city is undergoing a "big inspection". We are all strangers, but we also have a short home here. My sister is a freshman in Chinese opera. In the past year, she had a conflict with her elders in order to read Chinese opera. I wonder if she remembered her own experience after reading it. Only then did she tell me that she felt "full" after reading it