After watching "Dream Travel" in 2017, the complaints are still in my ears. After watching this "Spiritual Journey" today, I suddenly felt a fire in my heart, and I didn't vomit unhappy.
There is only one biggest feeling after watching the movie, that is, Pixar has been running wild on the road of Notre Dame. I can understand that Pixar wants to do something educational and entertaining, which is understandable, but forcibly deconstructing and exporting three views is almost no different from a cult. Rather than extolling the use of a life to awaken a life, it is better to advocate that individuals face the objective natural competition, and to understand that the adjustment of mentality and the balance of the environment are equally important. Even if you want to call for cherishing the moment, you don't have to use the old-fashioned plot like resurrection from the dead to sensationalize. Paying attention to marginalized groups is very valuable and necessary, but once moral kidnapping is used, it is difficult not to be objectionable.
From a conceptual point of view, "Spiritual Journey" is still doing what the last "Dream Travel" did, trying to deconstruct death in a more childish way. This is a difficult topic for children's films. Death and passing, even for adults, is a grand development, and it is even more difficult for children who have no objective scientific understanding of the world to understand death and passing. And Pixar wants to challenge this impossibility, and I admire this courage. But judging from the completion of these two films, Pixar not only failed to push forward the efforts of its predecessors, but was conservative and shameful. Humans have been striving for hundreds of years on the road of scientific pursuit, and still cannot understand the boundary of life and death, but Pixar can easily use religion and the heart of the Virgin to justify itself. Sorry I can't accept it.
As a genre of film, animation should not be a parody of drama. Of course I'm not mocking cartoons for trying to deconstruct life and death, but I hate this kitsch and anti-intellectual approach. There are plenty of great children's films that can reach great heights as well. And Pixar has clearly gone astray in its efforts to explore the upper limit of animation.
I miss Pixar in the days of "Up" and "Robots", when Pixar was full of dreams and childishness, making it refreshing for audiences accustomed to Disney's slick and flattering. And now Pixar, the success of the market has begun to eat back the arrogance of the content, always posing as a preacher unconsciously to tell you how people should live. So, how do you live?
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