Coco

In December 2019, I watched the Disney Pixar animation film Coco on the television set for the first time. It was quite touching. I had thought that it was just a fantasy film which was not so deep, however, it turned out to be really wonderful and far better than I had expected. If I had watched it at a theater, I would have cried. 

In March 2020, I watched it again. I was really moved again. 

The movie is about a boy who desires to be a pro musician and whose families hate music. The boy named Miguel accidentally is transported to the Land of the Death on the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead and he knows the truth about his ancestors there, and then he strives to make his families and himself happy. 

The film is deep and thoughtful, so adults also can appreciate it. Moreover, the story is quite emotional. It is sad that you have to leave a person who is still misunderstanding you. 

I was amazed at how colorful and fantastic the scenery of the Land of the Death was. I would have felt it more magnificent if I had watched it at a theater. Then the skeletal creatures were cheerfully moving in the Land and they were all cute. Although they were the dead, yet they seemed to have no sorrow and sadness. Children would never be scared of them. 

I cannot imagine that human actors lightly play the skeletal creatures, so I believe that the animated version is the better way of telling the story than the live-action version.