Wikipedia introduces "Dream Quest" as a comedy type animation, and friends who have seen this movie should have a different positioning for it.
Some netizens said that it is the best version of death education for children, and some have seen how a brave child can take risks and insist on pursuing his dreams.
Today, I will lead you to enjoy this warm film that has won many international awards from another perspective.
First, those whose parents have not been healed will be passed on to their children
Miguel, a 12-year-old boy who loves music, lives in the only family in the whole town who hates music, and he doesn't know why this is the case. By chance, he learned that the god of song, Delacruze, might be his great-grandfather.
Therefore, under the inspiration of the song god "Grandfather", he decided to insist on pursuing his musical dreams. On the night of the Day of the Dead, he accidentally entered the land of the dead. Fortunately, there he met his relatives and untied the knots that had been in the family for generations.
It turned out to be a misunderstanding that never had a chance to explain, which separated Grandfather Gao from his wife and daughter from yin and yang. Grandmother Gao was heartbroken and swore that their "Rivera" family would not allow music for generations.
Grandmother Gao believes that it is music that makes her husband abandon his wife and daughter, and his desperate love, Grandmother Gao cannot accept such betrayal. Despite their love for each other, Qinse and Ming, both of whom loved music so much, all members of the family still strictly kept this promise and did not dare to cross the thunder pool.
Until Miguel's birth, breaking the "curse" of this family. He felt that he was born different from his whole family, and eventually he found the reason, that is, because Grandfather Gao was the god of song, and the whole family was passionately in love with music, and music was the soul of their family.
However, the fiery love for music was buried deep in their hearts, and the "curse" they had observed for generations made them dare not express it, let alone touch it. What they buried was not only the love of music, but also the love and miss of their loved ones.
According to the custom of the Mexican Day of the Dead, only when a loved one places a photograph of the deceased on the altar, the deceased can return to the human world to reunite with their loved ones on the day of the Day of the Dead.
But Grandmother Gao's misunderstanding of Grandfather Gao, the spell of the family generations, so that Grandfather Gao's photos can never appear on the altar. Every year on the Day of the Dead he is lonely, he misses his family, but he has not been missed by his family, and he will be completely reduced to ashes at some point.
Thoughts are a kind of emotion, and emotions are not good or bad, but they have energy. Whether it is thoughts, resentment or jealousy, like the sand in the hand, the more it is clenched, the more it loses.
Emotions are often more depressed, more energetic, the grandmother's misunderstanding of the grandfather, the energy of this resentment is passed on to future generations, blocking their connection with the grandfather, they have love in their hearts, and it is precisely because of the love for the grandmother that they dare not show their thoughts about the grandfather. This resentment also cut off the love of music among the family members.
Dealing with emotions is not to suppress them, but to maintain an awareness of where your emotions are and the unmet needs behind them. Just like Grandmother Gao's resentment because she longs to be loved and feel secure, Grandfather Gao's sadness and loss is because he longs to be remembered and respected.
Love is the best healing
Love is the answer to everything, and everyone needs to be nourished in love and heal wounds with love.
There are many warm scenes in the film that express love and embody love. The members of the "Rivera" family also received their own healing in love.
The first is Miguel, who has strayed into the world of the dead and needs to be blessed by his family to return to earth, where there are three moments of blessing.
For the first time, grandmother gave him a blessing with marigold petals, but demanded that he never touch the music. The moment Miguel returns to the world to pick up the guitar, he is ruthlessly beaten back to the world of the undead.
"This is my life, and you have lived once." It is his rebellion and pursuit of an independent life, as well as his love and persistent pursuit of music, that make him finally live out his life.
The second time, it was Grandfather and Grandmother who reconciled, wishing Miguel "never forget that we are family, we will always love you" and allowing him to love music.
The third time, on the occasion of the death of the great grandfather, the grandmother also truly realized the importance of love and family, and they blessed Miguel, this time unconditionally.
Miguel returned to the world and passed on this love and longing, as well as his dedication and enthusiasm for music, to his children and grandchildren.
Let's look at how grandfather Héctor was healed by love.
In the world of the dead, only if his own photograph is placed on the altar by his relatives can he return to the human world, and only those who know his story remember him, he will not die in the end. His grandfather, Ecktor, must be remembered by his only daughter, Coco, so that he will always be "alive" forever.
When he and Miguel first met and did not recognize each other, he asked Miguel to find his family with his own photos, hoping that the family could put his photos on the altar so that he could be reunited with his family every year on the Day of the Dead;
When he and his grandmother Imelda meet again in the world of the dead, when the "Rivera" family fights de la Corus, Imelda angrily says" "You murdered the person I love the most in this life", hearing this, Ector's inner sadness and loss are healed, and it turns out that his wife has always loved herself like him.
And the grandmother Immel, because of her husband's decision to leave, still resented him, and has always kept a distance from him, letting her family draw a clear line with him, and even setting a curse on the family that she can never touch music.
At Miguel's proof, Ector sincerely explains to his wife that it was a misunderstanding, that it was a trap for him by Delacruz. Immel believed that Héctor was deeply in love with her and her daughter, and they missed him deeply. At that moment, she finally let go of her arms and gave her husband a deep kiss.
Let's look at Miguel's cocoa great-grandmother, cocoa, the only daughter of her grandmother, Ector, and Imelda. She was old, even severely amnesiac, but she only vaguely remembered her father, and she would murmur "Daddy" when she looked at the mutilated pictures on the altar.
When she heard Miguel sing the song "Remember Me" written by her father specifically for her, she had tears in her eyes, but she showed a girlish smile and happily sat in a wheelchair and hummed along. This song awakens her father's love for her, and also awakens all her thoughts and memories of her father.
She shared with her family her affection with her father when she was a child, and a carefree and happy childhood with her father. The various childhood memories restored by Coco's great-grandmother also healed the entire "Rivera" family, and in the ensemble of love and music, the curse was automatically lifted.
Third, the bridge between people's hearts
As an important bridge in the family generation, Miguel mistakenly entered the world of the undead and traveled back and forth to the human world. He this bridge carries the grievances and hatreds of the previous generation, and also carries the filial piety and longing of the next generation for the ancestors.
It is precisely because of the existence of his bridge that the connection between the members of the family has not been broken, and there is a chance to open each other's hearts and run to the common happiness of the family.
Grandma Coco is the bridge between Her grandfather and all the members of the family, and her memory of her father is related to the fate of the entire family. It was her love and thoughts for her father that really solved the misunderstanding between her grandfather and grandmother, and completely broke the spell that the family could not touch music for generations.
There are many symbols of the "bridge" in the film, such as photos, connecting the thoughts of the undead and loved ones. In the human world, the photos are placed on the altar of the spirit to send their relatives to mourn the deceased, and on the Day of the Dead, the deceased can return to the human world to meet their relatives. In the world of the dead, instruments show that the deceased with pictures of their loved ones can cross the petal bridge.
Another example is blessing, which is the most fundamental connection between people. Miguel can only return to the human world with the blessing of his loved ones, otherwise he will gradually turn into a skeleton until he dies. Relatives in the human world can live happier lives only when they are blessed by the deceased. The thoughts of relatives for the undead are actually a manifestation of blessing.
And love, which is the greatest connection between people. As the song sings "Love each other, life is immortal", the whole movie flashes love everywhere, the father's love for his wife and daughter, the love between husband and wife, the daughter's love for her father, the love of the family, the love of the children and grandchildren for the grandparents, and the love of the whole town for music.
"Dream Quest" is a standard healing movie.
It awakens our cherishing of our families. "Family is the most important", no matter how hard we work, we will eventually return to life, everything we do is actually for the happiness of our families and enjoy the warmth of a family together. A person, regardless of his high position of power, or in the dark alley, the family is always the most precious wealth in our lives.
It inspires us to pursue the life we want. As a parent, I habitually spoil the future, but this future is not a child, but a long-cherished wish that I have not realized. Life is only once, there is no rehearsal, you can't press the pause button, it's impossible to rewind, live yourself, don't have to suppress, have a dream to chase!
May you and I be nourished by the love of our families, and the unhealed wounds will be dissipated by love.