The legend of the magic string and the travel journal of the dream-seeking that I watched in the same period were all introducing adventures on the day of ancestor worship (Obon Festival/Dead Day) in exotic cultures.
But the essence of the two is the opposite. Xunmeng has always been Disney's warm family style, which is to respect the self-realization of the individual and take into account the reconciliation and balance of the family. Finally, it is to obtain the approval and blessing of the family before pursuing the ideal.
The magic string legend has always been dark and fantastical. From the beginning, it said that the baby was gouged by the grandfather, the mother and son were chased by the aunt, and the adults seemed to shudder. Here, the family is a violent organization that binds individual free will (the goddess mother chooses the mortal father's freedom to love).
And the director himself explained that Kubo's one-eyed image is a metaphor for the one-sidedness of the original family. The world told by parents is only a given cognition. Only by experiencing, exploring, and discovering can you see the real world that belongs to you.
In this way, even a family of origin, full of warmth and sacrifice, is actually not a favorable factor for building an ideal self.
The final outcome is not to return to the family, but to forgive the guilty based on the personality of self-realization.
— is inherently anti-family.
Starting from "Ghost Mother" (Mother's Indifference), the successive dark fairy tales are all about distrust of family members. Is it a subconscious expression of Gao Fu Shuai's children's efforts to break free under the strong family halo?
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