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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Coco quotes

  • Mamá Imelda: [to Héctor; after Miguel reveals that Héctor didn't abandoned her, but was killed while trying to come back to her and that Ernesto took Héctor's portrait] I will never forgive you...

    [suddenly smiles]

    Mamá Imelda: But I will help you.

  • Ernesto de la Cruz: [after Héctor is taken away by security for attacking Ernesto after learning the truth about his death] I apologize, where were we?

    Miguel: You were going to give me your blessing.

    Ernesto de la Cruz: Yes, uh, si. Miguel, my reputation it is, ah, very important to me. I would hate to have you think...

    Miguel: That you murdered Héctor, for his songs?

    Ernesto de la Cruz: Ha ha. You don't think that, do you?

    Miguel: I... no. Everyone knows you're, the... the good guy.

    Ernesto de la Cruz: [Ernesto looks at Héctor's photo, and then puts it in his pocket]

    Miguel: Papa Ernesto, my blessing?

    Ernesto de la Cruz: [Ernesto looks at Miguel's marigold petal, and then crushes it into powder] Security, take care of Miguel. He'll be... extending his stay.

    Miguel: [as he is taken away by security] WHAT? BUT I'M YOUR FAMILY!

    Ernesto de la Cruz: And Héctor was my best friend. Success doesn't come for free, Miguel. You have to be willing to, do whatever it takes to... seize your moment. I know you understand.

    Miguel: No, NO!