COCO: The Rules of the World

Ludie 2022-04-19 09:01:17

"The Rules of the World" always reminds me of:

"In the way of heaven, what is lost is more than what is lacking. In the way of man, what is lost is more than enough."

Just like the annihilation of countless "insufficient" people in the movie COCO, can it set off the Gatsby-style carnival of "excessive" people in the castle.

I always thought that this was just a rule of class society, but COCO inspired me with a new perspective: it turns out that in many cases, this rule is "similarly available".

For example, when I was young, when I was still alive, I was a little remembered child. Everyone was playing hide and seek, and sometimes no one came to me, and the sun went down. In summer, my hands are often inexplicably dirty. Severe winter, severe frostbite, that terrible itching is still remembered more than ten years later. Then I thought, if I had a baby, would I have the heart to have her hands like that?

If I have a child.

Will she suffer as much as I do now.

I hope not. So I would never have the kind of family that COCO celebrates.

If I'm gone, is it like a little pet that died when we were ten years old, someone in the world will be sad for a while, really sad, but after that very short period of time, there's nothing left .

Fortunately, my world is not COCO's world, and I don't have to "die" a second time lonely and sad after leaving the world alone and sadly.

But I have to admit that what the film said is correct: if an individual wants to be different from a huge set of rules, there is a high probability that he will only be brutally crushed. The memory model of incense inheritance in COCO represents ordinary beings, the base of the pyramid. People who are unwilling to be a good pedestal will either challenge the one-in-a-million success, or they will become scum who will not hesitate to die. Naturally, there will be more dross, because the dross belongs to the bases of the pyramid bases.

Even if the decent protagonist finally successfully regains the power to be "remembered", will everything change? There are still people dying silently, and I feel like I am one of them.

So I cried a lot while watching the movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Camden 2022-03-17 09:01:02

    The Hong Kong ghost film used an unknown number of times (so that I estimated the identity of the character as soon as it appeared). This time, it was repackaged in a signature style by Pixar, and a group of people cried and collapsed the Great Wall. Thank you Disney.

  • Marta 2022-03-22 09:01:12

    3.5 Pixar has always been very good at catching sensational points. It can always find the emotional weakness of the audience and attack with all strength. This is really powerful. Three stars are given to Héctor and his daughter Coco. The rest of the horrible routines are almost impossible to read. You have to set up a big villain to break a murder case by the way, and the Mexican elements are also very blunt. Strictly speaking, the whole is actually below Pixar's level.

Coco quotes

  • Ernesto de la Cruz: [from trailer] I have to sing. It's not just *in* me... It *is* Me.

  • [from trailer]

    Clerk: [sneezes] I am terribly allergic.

    Miguel: But Dante doesn't have any hair.

    Clerk: And I don't have a nose, and yet, here we are.