This year's latest blockbuster at Pixar, "The Metamorphosis of Youth", doesn't know what the family has watched?
Speaking of Pixar's animated films, everyone must have seen their family's cartoons, "Flying House", "Summer Friends Sunny Day", "Mind Agent Team", "Toy Story", etc., whether adults or children, each work of Pixar can bring us laughter and emotion at the same time.
This year's Pixar's new work "Youth Metamorphosis" is even more eye-catching: the all-female creative team, the Oscar-winning Chinese director Shi Zhiyu, the plush red panda that wants to make people work hard, a lot of Chinese elements in the movie... All of them attract people to hurry up and pull the grass.
Director Ishi no Yuki
Ishiyuki's "Bao Bao" won the Best Animated Short Film Award at the 91st Academy Awards
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The protagonist of the story is a 13-year-old Chinese girl living in Toronto, Canada.
In front of her parents, Meimei is a well-behaved girl who makes her parents happy and meets all the expectations of her parents:
Excellent grades
Learn to work hard
"Enrich yourself" with an instrument in your spare time
Life is sensible and filial
Such a protagonist can be said to be what every parent wants, "a good child of other people's families".
But, like all adolescent children, she has her own life:
Have friends who play together
Follow the stars with your friends
There are also people who secretly like it
However, it was precisely because she liked the boy at the grocery store next door that she couldn't help but draw a cartoon of the two in a notebook, which caused her trouble.
After discovering this, the mother, who is a traditional Chinese parent, rushed into the grocery store in front of everyone and accused the boy with a confused face, believing that he had seduced his daughter, but unbeknownst to him, this behavior made Meimei die on the spot, deeply hurting the little girl.
On the way home, meimei, who is a well-behaved woman, has a strong smile and chooses to suppress her obedience to her mother, but in fact, her heart has already had mixed feelings.
Meimei, who was affected by this incident, had nightmares at night. The next morning, I found myself transformed into a red panda.
The audience shouted cute, but the parties' inner fluctuations were very large
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It turned out that during the ancient war and chaos, the grandmother of the Meimei family prayed to the gods to obtain mysterious powers, and transformed into a red panda to repel the enemy army and protect the family.
Since then, this special function of the grandmother has also been inherited, and it has been passed on to women and not to men. When the women in the family reach puberty, this power will be activated in the body, and when they encounter extreme emotional fluctuations, they will become cute red pandas.
According to tradition, the elders of the family would ask the Taoist priests to cast spells to seal the red pandas in their bodies and return to the lives of ordinary people.
However, Meimei, as the protagonist, chose to coexist with the red panda.
The whole movie also culminates here:
Faced with the beauty of not sealing the red panda according to her expectations, her mother became angry, and directly angered that the seal was lifted and returned to the form of the red panda.
Meimei's mother lifted the seal
The animation uses a very exaggerated method to visualize the conflict of the concepts of the two generations in a form similar to the boss war, and the beautiful mouth cannon shouts out the dissatisfaction with the mother in the heart and suppresses the pain caused by the parents.
With the help of the seven aunts and eight aunts, Meimei finally entered her mother's heart: it turned out that under the strict requirements of her grandmother, her mother had long been exhausted.
When the mother cried in her grandmother's arms, the old mother who had suppressed herself for too long was finally relieved and finally looked away.
Meimei accepted the other side of herself, and her family accepted Meimei's own choice.
As an audience, we also ushered in a happy ending to the reunion.
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Pixar's works, presumably everyone like the editor, have seen a lot, but this year's "Youth Metamorphosis" has made many people feel unprecedented resonance: even on the other side of the ocean, we can still see our youth.
The director of this film has created a perfect Chinese parent image:
While doing her best to raise children, she has very high expectations for children; paying attention to everything about children in life, and the slightest abnormality of children will make her very nervous.
For example, when Meimei first became a red panda, she was afraid to tell the truth to the family, so her mother thought that Meimei was menstruating and brought a lot of sanitary napkins.
On the way to send Meimei to school, he kept asking for warmth, repeatedly confirming, "Are you okay?" ”
He even tracked down Meimei's school, got into an argument with the security guard, and then called out Meimei's name in full view of everyone and pulled out a pack of sanitary napkins.
Xiaobian is embarrassed by the screen alone
For another example, the mother refused to let Meimei go to the concert, and relentlessly thought that the combination her daughter watched was "an improper thing".
Angering Meimei's friends, believing that their friends have brought bad "good child" Meimei and tempted her not to do her job.
Rao was born in a relatively loose family, and his blood pressure began to rise when he saw these plots.
It is this kind of real depiction that makes this film gain a lot of resonance.
At the same time, it is also these foreshadowing for the collapse and crying of the mother at the end of the film: the mother is also required to be a good child from childhood, and she has suppressed herself from a young age; after getting married and having a child, she always puts "for your own good" on her mouth, and constantly requires her child to be perfect.
In the movie, the exaggerated performance of the mother when she receives the call from the grandmother is just right to illustrate the difficulty of being a mother: being caught between the elderly and the child, always thinking about how to strive to be a "perfect" mother, has long been tired.
Psychologist Winnicott has a widely accepted idea that "good enough mother" should be present when needed; it is also crucial that she should retreat when she is not needed. Some domestic institutions also translate this concept as "60 points mother".
That is to say, in terms of parenting, mothers do not need to roll in, do not have to do everything to achieve 100 points, leave some space for themselves and their children (or everyone around them), it will be more conducive to each other's physical and mental development. In the remaining 40 minutes of space, you can swap roles with your children, feel each other's expectations and efforts, and grow together.
Former CCTV host Li Xiaomeng read a lot of books in the process of raising children, and combined with her own experience to sort out her own feelings, through several simple and common life fragments, the "60 points mother" parent-child communication concept, through the picture book to everyone.
In Li Xiaomeng's parenting philosophy, hope home is a paradise for children, so that children are willing to come back and stay. At home, she can rest, she can relax, she has her own space, time, and her territory. When the family is attracted to the child, the child will like to stay at home. Play freely, or with favorite pets and plants – these are the "little hooks" that make children love life and be curious about life.
Many parents think that home should have the appearance of home, to be spotless, orderly, and to abide by the order is of course important, but it is the nature of children to love to play, and we cannot ignore the psychological needs of children because of the rules.
If the blind pursuit of order and rules deprives the child of his growth nature and happiness, he may not only pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons, but also lead to the formation of rebellious psychology in children.
Compared with the two, it is better than everything required to be perfect, to make the family chicken fly dog jump, and to be a 60-point mother is good enough.
Some of the pictures in this article come from the internet