Pixar's films are always so tender, and love is the constant theme of this studio. If WALL-E is about encounter and acquaintance, UP is about companionship and nostalgia. In the first 20 minutes of the film, there are only a few freehand brushstrokes, telling the story from two little ones, to each other, to their relatives. Holding a balloon in his hand, the old man turned away lonely from his wife's funeral and walked home. The once love hut became a heavy monument in an instant. Every item of his wife in the room was soaked by the old man's departure. feeling of anxiety. The heaviest spiritual burden on the old man's heart was the unfulfilled wish of his deceased wife to explore. The "things I want to do" written by the wife in the memorial book seemed to be a spell on the Five Elements Mountain.
We were just as thrilled when the kids made the "WOW" sound when a gorgeous cloud of balloons rose from the old man's house. The moment when the balloon soars into the sky and the house is pulled up, is the greatest satisfaction that the illusory feeling that the film can create can bring to the audience. Yes, innocence will not disappear with age, and the heavy reality cannot stop people from realizing their dreams. The rest of the story could have followed Hemingway's model, as long as we thought of the sky as the ocean and the house as the fishing boat. But Pixar is Pixar after all, and it created an aging villain to complete the old man's fishing (bird) story and make him a legend. And our protagonist, the old man who was so stubborn that he lost his temper, who missed his deceased wife, gradually turned back into a child—the child who drew a cross on his chest to defend his dream.
The most wonderful stroke came from the old man who thought he had fulfilled the wish of his deceased wife and installed the house beside the Wonderland Waterfall, finally had the courage to open his wife's memorial book and turn over the page "What I want to do". To his surprise, his wife's wish was not to go on an adventure in South America, but to be with her for the rest of her life... The photos revisited the bits and pieces of the past life. It turned out that the wife left with satisfaction. At this moment, the tears that had been suppressed for a long time finally burst out, and the heavy rock in my heart that was pressed down at the beginning of the film was finally removed, and I was relieved.
Why does the film move people of different ages so much? I think this probably stems from the fact that the film has a charm that can remind us more or less of our loved ones and ourselves. Everyone longs for a love that lasts forever, but everyone can't escape the helplessness of eventually getting old. The nostalgia for the deceased and the regret for the unfulfilled wishes of the past constitute the deep loneliness in the twilight years. Chinese people are very afraid of being old and have no one to depend on. On the one hand, it is because of our imperfect welfare, and on the other hand, it is because of the traditional family concept that is embedded in the genes. Westerners are not much smarter than us when it comes to the elderly’s later life, and the answer given by Pixar is nothing more than a child + a puppy. For ourselves, there is nothing wrong with cherishing the people around us, retaining our innocence and courage, and living this life well.
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