As a film with a theme involving the undead, it is theoretically not allowed to be introduced to the mainland, but during the review session of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, because it cried all the censors on the spot, the film was released unabated.
Every time the author hears the theme song of the movie, his eyes can't help but be soaked with tears. So today we will talk about the small details that have not been paid attention to in this movie masterpiece.
Soul Messenger, MiG's exclusive spirit beast, the puppy Dandan
As soon as the movie opens, a dirty and silly dog, Dan Dan, appears on the screen, and he keeps shrugging his head, spitting out his long tongue, and enjoys staying in the trash can.
In the original English version, the English name of Dandan is Dante, which is Dante. Is there any deep meaning to this?
Dante Alighieri, Italian medieval poet, famous for his epic Divine Comedy. In Italy, he was known as il Sommo Poeta (Supreme Poet) and il Poeta, the father of the Italian language.
The Divine Comedy tells the story of What Dante, the author of a living man, saw and heard while traveling in the underworld.
So this is actually a very clear foreshadowing, suggesting that Dan Dan can travel between the human world and the underworld at will, and also implying that Dan Dan, a small spirit beast, will lead the little boy Mig to complete this journey to the underworld. At the same time, Grandma's words also show that it is precisely because the little boy MiG named the dog Dandan, so that Dandan became MiG's exclusive spirit beast, became a member of his family, and has been guarding MiG.
Details: When Dan Dan appears, the little boy Mig is going to the music square to pass by a stall selling spirit beasts, and the spirit beasts in those stalls have also appeared in the later underworld. And Dan Dan jumped out of the trash can next to this stall, which also implied that Dan Dan was a masterless spirit beast.
The spirit beast is a projection of the owner's heart
The film focuses on two spirit beasts, one is the exclusive spirit beast dog Dandan of the little boy Mig, and the other is the grandmother's exclusive spirit beast small (big) cat (tiger) pumpkin.
At the end of the movie, when the big tiger pumpkin and Dan Dan return to the human world together, we find that the mighty pumpkin in the underworld is a cute little black cat in the human world. So, what makes such a big contrast?
Therefore, we guess that the form of the spirit beast in the underworld is determined by the size of the inner energy of its owner.
The grandmother is even more powerful when she loses her husband and has to take care of her daughter alone, and this little black cat should have accompanied the grandmother through these years. So when she was in the underworld, she was able to ride a flying tiger and soar.
At the same time, the puppy Dan Dan is also under the growth of the boy Mig, and Dan Dan grows wings, which also reflects the inner growth of MiG.
The meaning of the shoe
The English name of the film is "coco", and the mainland is very meaningfully translated as "Dream Quest". It can be said that it captures the core of the film very precisely. In the movie, the MiGs make shoes. What do shoes represent?
Shoes represent the path chosen, the feet that go forward, the dreams that are pursued, and the intention of shoes appears many times in the movie.
Choosing the road, the grandfather pursued his musical dream all his life, and he chose to leave his wife and daughter to pursue his musical dream. The grandmother chose to make a living by making shoes, and also hinted that she was waiting for her husband to find her way home.
Later, MiG did not break into the underworld, and the grandmother's spirit beast found MiG several times along the way through the ancestral shoe prints on the ground, which also showed that the shoe has always been the bridge between the grandmother and The MiG.
Finally, smoking people with shoes should also be the inheritance skill of the grandmother's family. At the beginning of the movie, Mig shines the guitarist's shoes, and after being discovered by Mig's grandmother, he picks up the shoes and slaps the guitarist's face. At the end of the movie, the grandmother found the god of song, and also picked up the shoes and beat it up, directly making the god of song ugly and losing the meaning of life, and the action was exactly the same as that of the grandmother smoking the guitarist, and the ancestral skills were confirmed! Of course, it also shows the protection of this family for the family.
To be continued ~~~