Text | Li Zijin
A pair of plump and dexterous hands,
Kneading, pressing, rolling, and wrapping buns.
After a while,
A basket of white and gluttonous buns is ready.
So familiar words,
Do you think about the busy figure of your mother in the kitchen at home?
The ordinary life day by day,
Until one day, as she always did,
When you put a bun in your mouth,
Suddenly, there was an exclamation ,
Mom quickly spit out the buns in her mouth,
Baozi stretched out his feet, stretched out his body,
And just like that, a life was born .
The arrival of steamed buns makes my mother's life no longer so lonely.
Look, even the picture has turned from dark to bright.
Go shopping, buy groceries, take a car, do Tai Chi...
No matter where you go, the mother does not forget to bring the baby with her.
The mother marks the growth of the baby,
Give him a bath, feed him,
For fear of him getting hurt a little.
Bao baby grows up day by day,
He started to have his own ideas,
I want to play football with my friends,
angry with mom,
Hiding in the room alone, eating snacks, making phone calls,
Even my mother cooked a table of hearty dishes,
He has no time to eat,
Does this scene look like the parents at home?
Waiting for the moment you go home for dinner?
Mom is lonely again,
until one day,
Bao Bao took a woman home,
Looking at the shiny ring on the woman's hand,
Mom was stunned,
Pack your bags, baby,
I plan to say goodbye to my mother,
At this time, the mother pushed the woman out the door,
If you want to keep Bao Baobao from leaving,
Just like in countless Chinese families,
Parents cannot accept the departure of their children.
Retention turned into strife,
A tragedy happened,
The mother shed tears and ate the disobedient Bao Baobao in one bite.
When she came back to her senses, she was remorseful, lonely, and helpless...
But everything has been irreversible.
This scene was called by many netizens
Childhood nightmares,
That's where the weirdness and horror of this short film come from.
In the next scene, the son, whom the mother has not seen for a long time, returns home,
Maybe Bao Bao made mother reflect on herself,
He and his son settled the quarrel,
The last family lived happily together.
An 8-minute short film,
It expresses the attachment of Chinese parents to their children,
It won this year's Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Director Shi Zhiyu ,
She is the first Chinese female director of Pixar in 32 years.
She was born in China, an only child,
Immigrated to Toronto, Canada with his parents when he was two years old.
Raised in North York Region.
Inspired by the painter's father,
From a very young age,
Shi Zhiyu showed amazing talent in painting.
"When I was young,
My parents always regarded me as the little bun in the palm of my hand,
Don't let me run around,
I was also not allowed to leave their sight. "
Shi Zhiyu recalled,
"When I actually left home,
This transition makes it difficult for them to adapt. "
The special growth experience has become a source of inspiration for Shi Zhiyu.
Around 2014,
She came up with the idea of creating a short film with Baozi as the character.
Steamed buns are a traditional Chinese food.
Every festival, Shi Zhiyu's mother will do it.
And "bag" is homophonic with "treasure",
Subtly means the mother's jewel.
The fantasy story of an empty-nest mother and a quirky bun,
Just like that, it was born.
She will be food, family, love
These three universal languages,
Connected with stories full of Chinese elements,
It vividly reproduces the joys and sorrows of the parent-child relationship.
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