Movie: Dream Quest
Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure
Directed by: Lee Unkridge, Adrian Molina
Starring: Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Blatter, Gail Garcia Bernal
Release Date: November 22, 2017 (USA)
Awards: Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards; Best Animated Feature at the 75th Golden Globe Awards
The movie "Dream Quest" tells the story of Mig, a young boy from a Mexican shoemaker family, who bravely chases his musical dreams, reconciles with his family in the world of the dead and the real world, and finally realizes his dreams. Many people highly recommend it, and they have specially prepared tissues for emergency, and they are not used in the end. There was some touch and reflection, but not to the point of tears.
People tell human stories. In Dream Quest, MiG's ancestors are mistaken for people who ran away from home in pursuit of their musical dreams, so the family banned music. However, Mig has loved music since he was a child, and he touched a guitar on the Day of the Dead and entered the world of the dead and met his deceased family. It turns out that the undead who have no one to worship here cannot be reunited with their families during the festival, and if no one in the real world remembers them anymore, then they will disappear from the world of the dead completely. Fortunately, MiG reunites with his lost grandfather and grandparents, and the family has to find a way to send MiG back to earth and achieve a "real reunion".
The core idea of the story is that after a person dies, if no one in reality remembers him, then he is really "dead", as if he never existed. The most likely proof that an ordinary person has come to this world is his own family, and a person's last harbor is also his own family, so love your own home. Suddenly there is a brain hole, about the plot setting, if there is no family to support their own photos, their own undead can not return to reality to reunite with their families, then this custom may not have a long history, the earliest photos can be traced back to the 1820s and 30s, perhaps before they enshrined portraits, after the invention of photos, it is not used, then Mexico's folk art industry should be more developed.
MiG's journey through the two levels of significance, one is how a person breaks through the family's inhibitions and bravely pursues his musical dreams, and the other is how to reconcile the intergenerational members of the family. He helped his family repair the deep estrangement of generations, music should not be a taboo in the family, great-great-grandfather was not a man who did nothing for his dreams, he was killed by his friend Dracus, so he could not go home. Because in the real world, it is almost impossible to travel through the world of the undead, but each family needs internal reconciliation, so the film uses this way to find the answer.
From the story line, the story theme of "Dream Quest" has similarities with "Spiritual Journey", which is based on the theme of musical dreams, which is easy to make people have many beautiful fantasies and surging thoughts. In contrast, due to the different ages of the protagonists, "Dream Hunting" takes the little boy Mig as the protagonist, and under the care and care of his family, the whole spiritual journey is more relaxed and happy, and finally a happy ending. "Spiritual Journey" focuses on making people pay attention to the present while pursuing their dreams, and discusses the meaning of life in depth, full of subtle philosophical thinking on life.
In terms of animated characters, when "Finding Dreams" shows the undead world, the characters in the undead world are skeletons, reminiscent of the Gothic style movie "Zombie Bride". In "Zombie Bride", the author tries to blur the boundary between life and death, but in terms of picture color and image style, the undead world is separated from the real world, and the undead world is relaxed and colorful. "Dream Hunting" integrates the world of the undead into real life from the beginning, as if people also live in a space, although they can't see each other, but they have never been separated, trying to bridge the line between life and death in this way.
In terms of setting, Mig mistakenly believes that his great-great-grandfather is the famous singer Dracus, who is actually a murderer who robs his friends of his musical works for fame and fortune, and he lives in the world of the dead like the luxurious house where Mr. Gatsby lived in the movie "The Great Gatsby", enjoying the fame and fortune of the sun. The scene of the undead world in "Dream Quest" is said to be very Mexican, and the towering and densely packed houses seen from a distance resemble the undead world in the movie "Kamakura Monogatari", where people also live happy lives, just waiting for their families in the real world to reunite.
"Dream Quest" tells people that everyone's dream should be guided by the direction of his soul, and his dream should be blessed by his family. Man comes from the family, just like the root of man, no matter where he goes, he must look back at the starting point. As for the evidence that man has lived, every cosmic particle has witnessed it, and it is necessary to firmly believe this.