Up Memories are a prison, only love can forgive

Augustus 2021-10-13 13:05:45

I have always thought that one of the most important processes of growing up is to accept those disappointing realities: the political system is imperfect, the economic system is unreasonable, people who will never learn the convenient pets in the yard and the ghosts everywhere, of course, there are still not enough births. I am not smart enough to be handsome. From this perspective, Pixar is a complete fairy tale factory. Whether it's the naive ideals of its movie content or its unfailing reputation for more than ten years, that little table lamp bouncing around is probably the farthest thing from the word disappointment this year. Everyone has a story of regretting wasting time and money in a movie theater. Of course, Pixar's movies will never be the protagonist of such a story.

What I like most about the movie opening is that it depicts the life of Carl and Ellie. Guessing from two little children to each other, how about childless and no heirs, the life of being together without abandoning is already the most beautiful fairy tale. The older a person is, the less he is his own, but he lives for the people who care about you and the people you care about. After the rest of his life, guarding the memories of the house and lover, this was his biggest wish. Turning over the last wish of his dead wife, I think Carl is full of guilt, and I just want to do more for her and do it earlier. But when even the last house full of memories was about to be taken away, Carl fled. Yes, he was to fulfill his lover's last wish, but more importantly, he couldn't imagine a life that he couldn't even live in memories, so he took all the memories-the house, and fled to the starting point of the memories. An old man like Martin Crane, locked himself in the memory of his beloved, unwilling to face reality, unwilling to face his own life, and bet the rest of his life in the most romantic and crazy way. This is love and persistence, but also despair and paranoia.

The memory of a loved one is the most precious, but when the memory confines the soul and makes people unwilling to care for others, it becomes a chronic disease. In Carl’s eyes, Russel, Kevin, and Dug were nothing more than troubles that prevented him from staying with his memory. He only cared about his house and moving the house to the waterfall. Everything else it's none of my concern. But three of them. These are all objects that need care: a child who longs for his father's love, a big bird chased by a "bad guy", and a dog looking for his owner. At the end of the whole movie, it is not about a romantic messy old man flying across the ocean in a hot air balloon made of a house to fulfill the wish of his dead wife, but how a sad old man can regain the fulcrum of life and the object of love. . Finally, as the house fell into the waterfall and Carl's loneliness and self-blame, he would never forget Ellie, but he would no longer numb himself with memories, because he was going to accompany a little boy to count the cars on the road.


In the worst words, this is a story of salvation.

Persistence, trust, hope and love are the eternal themes in Pixar movies. They are not to tell people how great these ideas are, but to let the audience re-understand these overused and even distorted ones along with the experiences of the protagonists. The human nature that influences our lives all the time. This sincerity will not disappoint.

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

View more about Up reviews

Extended Reading

Up quotes

  • Police Officer Edith: [after Carl gets back from the courtroom, at night] Sorry, Mr. Fredricksen. You don't seem like a public menace to me. Take this.

    [she hands him a Shady Oaks Retirement Village brochure]

    Police Officer Edith: The guys from Shady Oaks will be by to pick you up in the morning, okay?

  • Newsreel Announcer: [after the National Explorer's Society accuses Muntz of fabricating the "Monster of Paradise Falls" skeleton] The organization strips Muntz of his membership.

    [a patch is ripped off Muntz's jacket]

    Newsreel Announcer: Humiliated, Muntz vows a return to Paradise Falls and promises to capture the beast alive!

    Charles Muntz: [speaking to a large audience outside in the newsreel] I promise to capture the beast alive, and I will not come back until I do!