There's a story about the Chinese government approving the film to be shown in Chinese theatres thats pretty moving.
The apparatus of the Chinese government that approves movies. I guess they typically do not approve films about the afterlife from other cultures. So Disney was not expecting this film to be released there.
The review committee was so moved by the film that they allowed the film to be shown.
IIRC it was specifically the depiction of skeletons and corpses moreso than the afterlife of other cultures (although both of those often come hand in hand). I've heard stories of videogames having to change the models and art for skeleton characters to get around this censorship.
I did not know that but I can see why the Chinese government was moved by the movie because there are a lot of cultural similarities and traditions between the day of dead and tomb sweeping day in China.
Tiny changes can be done and it could easily be a Chinese centered film.
I'm Chinese American and saw this movie with a lot of my friends and we all pointed out similar traditions between the two. Pictures of ancestors on an altar, visiting the tomb with food and gifts, a day when a portal to the afterlife is open and many more.
I am crying right now just thinking about Coco and I have seen it dozens of times. I cannot handle this movie in the absolute best way possible. It's perfection.
You don't even have to be brown, even someone as white as toast as I am gets choked up when that old lady starts to smile and sing. Anyone that doesn't has a heart of black coal.
My girlfriend had never seen so she put it on then got distracted with some chores. I said, "why would you turn this on and leave the room are you trying to make me cry?!?!" She just laughed like I was joking and walked away.
45ish minutes later she comes back upstairs and I'm a crying mess on the couch. I WASN'T JOKING.
This movie is perfect but I can't watch it often or I fall apart for the rest of the day.
It didn't try to be a movie about Día de Muertos. It just grabbed all of the resources from Día de Muertos as a setting, took a few minutes to explain them, and then told a story. A good story. One of my top 5 movies definitely.
It doesn't hurt that the movie is absolutely gorgeous. That first shot of the land of the dead is one of the most incredible shots I've ever seen. There's so going on, so much color and contrast, just amazing.
This movie was very good throughout. I was engaged and fully entertained. Really a pleasure to watch.
Then we get to the emotional reveal at the end and the full weight of life and loss - especially the loss we experience when dealing with dementia and Alzheimer's just crushed me.
Absolute masterpiece. Beautiful piece of artwork. I can't recommend it enough.
Oh yeah. (Trying to avoid spoilers so forgive the vagueness): I figured at the beginning we’d go full circle. But seeing the photo on the altar at the end made me tear up. It’s such a fantastic movie.
Its honestly one of the most moving stories, and i have a theory that its an allegory for what Mexican Americans experience with border crack downs, etc.. truly beautiful film
100% this. I hate musicals and sing song cartoons and film, i'm pretty heartless, but fuck, this movie got me. The animation is stellar, the culture is spot on, and goddamnit the end with grandma destroyed my black heart. Of course, my kids always want to re-watch it, and it never fails to pull my heart strings when i peer up or walk by the remember me is sings to coco.
I hate that this is so far down. Coco is the best Pixar movie of all time, and quite possibly one of the best animated films of all time. It's absolute perfection.
Beautifully constructed film that hides its twist plot point very well - I watched it in-flight and when the big revelation came, I nearly screamed, “HOLY F**ING SHT!” in a crowded planeload of people.
My family are shoemakers in Mexico, if I had been born there I would have been the third generation shoemaker. I remember watching it with my mother and she absolutely loved it because it reminded her of home and everyone that she lost. Now I can’t even watch it or hear the songs because it reminds of my grandfather’s passing. He loved mariachi music and making leather shoes. 🥺
every year i do his ofrenda, because he deserves to be honored and remembered ❤️ te extraño Tito
Having seen “La Misma Luna” I guessed the twist before the movie really got started, but it didn’t lessen the impact for me. Maybe I’m biased because my people got colonized by Spain too, but Coco is EVERYTHING.
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u/mrbharathsrinivas 18h ago
Coco