? Dream Journey tells the story of a little boy from a shoemaker's family. In order to fulfill his musical dream, he walked into the world of the dead, met his dead family, and finally got their blessing to return to the world to sing. The film takes MiG's road of music as the main line, and tells a homesick story between family and dreams, family and memory, and between the world and the dead.
Dream of music
At the beginning of the film, in a bustling Mexican town, imelda was abandoned by her husband who was looking for a musical dream and raised her daughter Coco alone. In order to make a living, she cut off the connection between music and her family, even though she loves music very much. She learned to make shoes and asked her children not to touch music for generations, not to mention her husband Hector. Everyone can only make shoes, and they become a family of shoemakers. Seeing this, I cried for a person who is as emotional as I am. I really felt sorry for her at that moment.
However, MiG, a little boy born in this shoemaker's family, loves music very much and has extraordinary talent in music. But the tradition of the whole family is not to listen to music, not to talk about music, and not to like music. For Miguel, who has been crazy about music, this is hard to understand. On the Day of the Dead, in the face of family opposition, MiG said that he didn't want everyone to remember him. He didn't want his family, so at the instigation of his heart, he decided to steal the guitar of the late singer Draculus, and thus mistakenly entered the country of the dead.
? Kingdom of death
? The soul of this family is the ancestor of the world of the dead. She is a strong woman, a qualified mother and the best lover. After all, she is most women. Every girl has a dream. They fantasize that she is a princess, that she can do magic, that she is a model and that she is a singer. But these dreams will disappear with the birth of children. At that time, there was only one thing in their eyes: "home". They will put down their acoustic guitars, put away the princess dresses they often wear, pick up their little babies and look at them with spoil. When a man goes out to realize his dream, she will point at his nose angrily and say, "Don't come back if you get the fuck out." Didn't come back, and she didn't cry and beg him to come back. So she gave up her favorite music and picked up a needle and thread with the finger that should have plucked the guitar string. Support the whole family by this craft. Finally, when her husband was bullied, she blurted out, "You hurt the love of my life." This is most women, their hearts can be very strong, always retaining the soft part.
"Marigold Bridge"
The life world puts photos of every deceased relative on the altar. In this way, every year on the traditional Day of the Dead, they can go through the checkpoint and cross the Marigold Bridge to see their relatives. Remember the people you love and let them find their way home. When the little boy strayed into the world of the undead, he fell into fear and was at a loss. His late relatives recognized him at a glance. They get together because they support each other's families.
The undead escape
MiG met his great-great-grandmother, imelda, in the world of the dead, and learned at the customs that the only way to go back was to ask his dead family to bless him, and the conditions of his dead elders must also be agreed. Imelda's request for MiG's return to the world is that he is not allowed to touch music again. Therefore, MiG did not accept this "blessing" and began the "great escape" of the undead world.
In the process of escape, I met Ekto, who was forgotten and lonely. At first, the purpose of Hector approaching MiG was to let MiG get the singer's blessing, and then let MiG bring his photos back to the world, so that Ekto could survive and return to the world.
? "meet Ekto by chance"
Where do people go after death? In the face of children, it is difficult to explain the topic of death except sex education. When children grow up slowly, it is inevitable that they will encounter the death of their loved ones. He might ask, "Mom, where's Grandma? Did she leave us? " In this film, which is very suitable for children, a reasonable and beautiful explanation is given to children. It is said that when it was first introduced into China as an animated film, it could not be tried because it contained the contents of the dead, but it was finally tried because it made the censor cry.
"get together"
Because the dead live well, they eat, drink, dance, and hold various parties with all their dead families in their own country of the dead, and they can reunite with their living families once a year on the Day of the Dead. Behind death is no longer what we think is dark and cold, no longer an insurmountable wall, and death is not a farewell to family. The dead man turned into a skeleton, warm and lovely, and lived in another world like when he was alive. But there are conditions to continue living in this "city of death": someone in the world remembers you. If an immortal is no longer cared for by people in the world, it will usher in a second death, a real death of ashes. Death is not a permanent farewell, but forgetting.
"parting"
Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the elders arrange for the younger generation to go back to their hometown to visit the grave. This kind of ceremony conveys the thoughts of relatives. We go to pay homage to our ancestors, not because we believe in the existence of souls, but because we firmly believe that there is some connection between the dead and the living. Life and death are an endless cycle. We give death a sense of ritual precisely because we love life.
At the end of Dream Journey, when the little boy sang the song "Please remember me" that his great-grandmother listened to his father every night when he was a child, the lost memory was aroused and tears filled his eyes. Memory makes the dead never disappear.
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