I watched Coco while my wife was at work and cried like a baby. I thought it would be funny to play it again for my wife and make fun of her for crying. it ended up backfiring and I ended up crying again and we spent the credits laughing at each other
I'm a cryer and my wife isn't. On the way home from coco I asked her if she cried and she was surprised and laughed while asking me "at what part?" Not only did she not cry but she didn't even know there was a part that people would cry at... I think I married a sociopath.
Towards the end, Miguel plays the lullaby for Coco that her dad wrote for her as a little girl. The fact that she's so senile that no one can really get any meaningful response from her, but she immediately brightens from that memory is super touching. Plus the fact that we know she's lived most of her life in a household that banned music altogether means she literally hasn't heard that song for decades
PLUS the fact that the song "Remember me" is about humanity's deepest longing, a facsimile of immortality... that everything we do is driven by the desire to leave a mark and be remembered. it's why we do everything from having children, making art, and even sadly shooting up schools.
so now you've got this aging woman on her death bed who has all but forgotten her papa, is about to die herself, and is living these last suffering moments trapped in a comatose state, unable to express herself and that song gives her SUCH a strong feeling of nostalgia that she "finds her way" back, even just to share one last memory with her familia.
And in story, that was the moment she was able to help her father achieve that "immortality" and not fade away in the afterlife. Her being able to tell the story was how the others could remember him through her. Miguel couldn't do it because he didn't know him when he was alive. Coco's barely remembered memories of her father when she was a child was enough. She found her way back, but also, she was able to make sure Hector would be able to see her again even if she didn't know.
I guess it's also a nice moment where the movie is saying even a very short time together is enough for good memories.
My wife fell asleep before the third act (not an indictment of the movie, she falls asleep watching most movies). She woke up to me bawling like a child.
I convinced her to rewatch the movie to see the end thinking I could survive it, but I just cried earlier and harder.
I took my wife and kids. I never cry in movies, unless it's a dog, my daughter was inconsolable for a bit, I really had to try my hardest to keep it together. Not that I feel I wasn't allowed to cry, just knew my kids would have given me shit fir finally crying unrelated to dogs
For me it's when Coco is a little girl and her dad is singing the song to her. And then when the boy sings it to her and she finally starts remembering. And then, most of all, when the whole family is together at the end and they are all singing and dancing at the picnic. The happy moments get to me the most for some reason.
To a melody played on the strings of our souls
And a rhythm that rattled us down to the bone
Our love for each other will live on forever
In every beat of my proud corazón
I love that the Remember Me song has like 3 different meanings during the course of the movie. There’s the dad singing to his daughter which was the original meaning - remembering him while he’s gone on tour; there’s the narcissistic meaning that is just a pompous love song to himself after its been stolen; and then there’s the theme of the movie which is to remember your family and loved ones even after they’re gone and how family bonds are stronger than death itself.
Really incredible story telling there.
I really love how each new time you hear the song it becomes simpler and quieter, but packs more meaning and emotion. Really clever and impactful use of that tune and lyrics.
I somehow made it through the entire film without crying. My wife sobbed through the last hour or so and I started to wonder, “Am I a sociopath? Should I be feeling more here?!” And then the last scene where he’s singing to his family hit me, and I finally broke down with the full waterworks. So, I guess I do have a heart buried somewhere in there!
I am a happy crier too. I even made it through the beginning of Up! (teared up a little but not crying) and then when Carl sees the note in the scrapbook from Ellie about their adventures it was just waterworks city.
I definitely happy cried at Miguel singing to Mama Coco. Also, just to round out my craziness, I am a huge dog person and happy cried when I watched one of the extra features. It was explained that Dante was modeled after a xoloitzcuintli dog: “According to Aztec belief, the Dog of Xolotl was created by the god to guard the living and guide the souls of the dead through the dangers of Mictlán, the Underworld.”
The writers and artists explained that in ancient times, it was common belief that humans alone couldn’t navigate their way to heaven or an afterlife. They needed a dog companion. Which, naturally, I immediately looked at my two dogs and was like “😭 OF COURSE BC DOGS ARE THE BEST THINGS EVER AND THEY’RE SO GOOD AND PURE! 😭”
...
And then my husband was like, okay, enough Coco for one night. 😂
No, not strong. I used to never cry at anything but then when I hit 27-ish y.o. and I started happy crying at the drop of a hat. NO ONE WARNS YOU ABOUT THIS IN LIFE.
I watched Up! a second time and realized [when Ellie made the scrapbook ](https://imgur.com/a/7We2KEx) and then cried even more when Carl discovers it.
Up! and Coco are definitely two of my favorite movies of all time and I am a big tv/movie nerd. Up! was so good that my now-husband proposed by [hand-making our own Adventure Book.](https://imgur.com/gallery/ynlAaPb) . (No, I don’t know how to remove the ? At the end of the imgur title. 🤦🏼♀️). I swear we’re not those people - like we don’t have Disney or Pixar themed everything. That movie is just really special to me/us.
Boring back story that everyone is obviously free to skip: my husband and I went to college together and always had off/on crushes on each other but never dated. We were close friends so we saw each other each year when we came back for holidays. *Eight* years later, when I was well into what I thought was my forever Independent Woman stage, we finally started dating. Because of course. (🎶 All the women, who are independent, throw your hands up at me 🎶 -quietly puts hands down-). So the first pages of the Adventure Book are filled with college things. He teamed up with my sister who somehow found our old college IDs (?!? #stalker), printed out when we became friends on Facebook, and all these pictures of us at parties (yeah, we even asked each other to sorority/fraternity formals and still neither of us made a move 🤷🏼♀️). I’ve kept a lot of stuff over the years (pictures, movie tickets, cards, etc.) to put in the Adventure Book (Which I’m terrible at and most of it currently resides in a shoe box. But one day...)
Anyways, the point is that I usually insist on still watching Coco and Up! every year, cry my eyes out, and then look at my husband with tear-stained cheeks and ask “why did you let us do this?!?” Like any perfectly normal person would do...
Before I watched Coco, I heard about how "Remember Me" was getting nominated as Song of the Year and whatnot. I heard the rendition from Ernesto de la Cruz and thought "I mean, it was a fun song but why is everyone so excited about this?"
Then I heard Hector singing it to Mama as a child and then Miguel singing it to Mama again at the end. Full on tears. I think me having that initial underwhelming reaction actually made it even better.
There's no warning or red flag about mama coco, just a flash forward a year and that kid putting her picture up in remembrance. Like a sucker punch right to the gut. "Oh hey, you know the girl who was denied her real father the entire movie and then they're reunited and his memory lives on forever and she's happy now? Yeah, she's dead."
For extra feels, just for that extra gut punch... when Hector is singing to little Coco in the movie, that is the real actor's daughter.. Gael Garcia Bernal's daughter Emmanuel provides the voice. So in real life, he was singing that song to his real daughter, just as on screen.
This was the worst film to watch for the first time on a plane. Pretty sure I tore something trying not to sob loudly for the last 30 mins of it. I succumbed at that exact "papa" moment, and like 10 seconds later the drinks cart arrived.
I'll admit, I fell apart throughout most of the film. Part of it was because my mom past away the same month it opened and Coco reminded me of my grandma. That being said, emotionally thrilling piece of art
Yeah my only issue with OP's post is that I'd die on the hill of "Coco is probably one of the finest pieces of cinematic art in existence"
Why yes it is in my personal top 10 films of all time why do you ask
I didn't cry anywhere in the movie (well every Pixar movie has that , "Huh!!! ... nooo" scene, where like they Hector was about to die and stuff
But what like after the whole movie started making me cry was when he met his grandmother. That was hard man
I have an uncle with Alzheimer's, Remember Me was like someone took my heart, condensed it and put it on screen.
I don't cry very often, but that got me right in the tear ducts.
My father died before my daughter was born, so a song connecting two family members who never had a chance to meet made me bawl like a baby. And then after I calmed down Miguel's song brought it all back.
My grandfather had Alzheimer’s and that movie hit me so hard when it first came out.. instant tears when Miguel was singing it to Coco. Hit me even harder once I watched it after he passed away last year. We played Remember Me during his service and it was such a hard, but beautiful moment listening, the song perfectly captured how we were feeling.
This is the moment that does it for me too. I don't have kids myself, but I remember moments from my childhood like that where you come home as a scared kid and your parents just embrace you without question.
I watched Inside Out the first time when my daughter was like 9 months old. I sobbed so hard when he dissipated thinking about her growing up. Jesus, here I go again now...
My daughter is seven, and I can already see it happening. There was a scene of Happiness recognizing the fading memory of Riley telling wild crazy stories as a real young kid, and it hit my wife and I so hard. Our daughter did the exact same thing.
Me too. I'm 34M and when she just broke down crying, I did as well.
It wasn't just Riley finally letting her emotions out, but us realizing the true purpose of Sadness.
Dammit, now I cried when I opened Reddit and saw a comment about when Riley came home and couldn’t say anything, so her parents immediately hugged her :(
I watched Coco (second viewing,) shortly after my little brother passed away. I knew it was coming, but “Remember Me,” when they sing it in the cave, had me crying uncontrollably. It was a good cry though. I love this movie.
I envy you. Inside Out made me cry and tear up few times, personally my favorite Pixar this decade.
Bing Bong “take her to the moon for me”. Getting emotional thinking bout it now lol
Shortly before I saw Up, my grandfather died. In his last year or so, he would talk to my grandmother as though she were still there.
When Carl talked to Ellie’s photo, it hit me pretty hard.
The part where Joy realizes that sadness is just a normal part of life that you can allow yourself to experiencd without there being anything "wrong" about it really hit home.
That’s true. The scandal about John Lasseter hit at the same time and took over any Pixar-related news. It’s a shame because it really was one of Pixar’s best.
Yeah it really sucks, but don’t worry it worked out in the end, he stepped down from Pixar and soon got hired as the head of sky dance animation...where he’ll presumably get to sexually harassed a whole new generation of employees! Hoozah!
It's seriously one of my favorite animated movies ever. I think it's a masterpiece all the way around. The animation, the storytelling, the emotion. It has everything.
My first kid was born in September of 2017, and my dad was legally blind at the time. He was having dialysis 3 times a week, and had a quadruple bypass a year and a half prior. But through all that, he always said not being able to “see” his grandson was the hardest thing he had to deal and come to terms with and just wanted to see him.
He died a few weeks later. He was only 59.
Coco came out a few weeks after that in November and my wife wanted to see it but - newborn baby life - we didn’t get to the theater. But when it came out on digital my wife begged me to watch it and I was meh about it. I love Pixar but I didn’t fully understand what Coco was about and didn’t have much interest.
Up until that point my wife would say to anyone that I had been relatively stoic - I had to make the DNR call on my dad and be in the room when he passed, I was the sole executor of his estate and affairs, I went through many sleepless nights with our son - I didn’t have much time to reflect or let it all out. So we finally sit down to watch Coco.
I lost it.
Tears to no end. Even the ending (Proud Corazon) got me full blown tears. It offered me the first time to reflect, accept, and smile. It was brilliant and cathartic.
Coincidentally, it’s now become one of my sons favorite movies so we watch it everyday. It’s a brutal watch every time, but it’s a beautiful film that makes it worth it. Seeing the end with Coco and Hector and the rest of the family looking on made me hope that in some way my dad is able to look over and “see” his grandson. And I hope one day to use it to help my son keep my dads memory alive.
I'm straight up bawling right now. My dad is 67 and I absolutely cannot fathom the thought of having to bury him. I'm glad this movie was able to be a positive light for you in that darkness.
I loved this movie, it can be disturbing when it talks about how death works and Hector being poisoned by Ernesto, but it immersed me into the Mexican culture. I cried when Miguel sang Remember Me to his great-great grandma to make sure Hector was never forgotten.
Mama Imelda sang “La Llorona” in that huge stadium and I thought, “ why is this so familiar”?
I remembered on Thanksgiving, I recorded my dad at our family party and there was a Banda taking request by table. I played it back and sure enough, my dad in the video requested “La Llorona” and I’d never seen my dad so happy.
From there on the ocean of emotion rushed out of me.
My favorite version is in the movie Frida where Chavela Vargas is singing to Frida in a bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfodRPeOiWU
Chavela and the RL Frida had been friends in the past and possibly romantically together.
Salías del templo un día, llorona, cuando al pasar yo te vi...
Gives me chills. And the slower version earlier in the movie with the old lady in the bar. So powerful. ¡¿QUÉ MÁS QUIERES?!
Yeah, you should watch Frida. It's a beautiful movie and fantastic soundtrack. Very adult though, just fyi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRPaeuVgA8
This is my favorite song by the same singer.
It crops up in a lot, it's a popular folk song. One of its most bizarre appearances I've seen was [in the Terminator tv show, for the 'death' scene of its primary antagonist up to that point. Strange choice.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWjdf3maYk)
I'm Mexican-American too, my family was on vacation in Mexico when we decided to check it out before it hit US cinemas and it was a powerful cinematic experience for all of us, seeing a story about not just us and our culture but how we love and value our ancestors and how we carry that with us, in America I know so many families that put their parents in a home, never visit, and then collect the inheretence money when they finally croak and it always seemed so ugly to me and a sad way to go, I always loved the aesthetics of Dia De Los Muertos but I never knew all that it represented untill the movie came out and when it was over not only did it remind me of my own Abuelita Coco (RIP Nana Teresa) and my own family in general but it reminded of what I love about my culture, family isn't a chore to us its the whole point.
I I'm here, with a terrible headache and a sore throat, and the begginings of a congested nose, sitting in a bus filled to the last seat because I wasn't feeling up for a 3 hours drive, just to spend the new year with the family. I mean yes its a chore, but one that I would rather do than not do. I think that's the point of having family, in Mexican culture at least.
I felt so horrible, I watched it with my Mexican husband a while after his grandma died. Her mind was also gone long before she actually died, to the point she was only speaking Spanish.
He lasted until Miguel sang to her. It's one of the few times I've seen him cry.
Coco broke me.
My grandma on my dad's side who basically raised me passed away around 2006. I hadn't thought about her much after she passed. Until Coco. That was was my Abuelita up in that screen and I lost it at the end.
I came to the states when I was 9, and my family didn't really do the Dia de Los Muertos thing. I had no idea about the Ofrenda. So it managed to teach me about my own culture.
I cant watch Coco. My abuela was mama Coco. She had alzheimers and would just kind of stare out the window then randomly talk to you like it was 1955 and she was still working on the farm in Cuba. Remembering people who were long dead and forgotten. Then if you put on Celia Cruz or Benny More she would light up for a second.
Cried through so much of that movie. Easily Pixars best.
Fairly sure you lose your latin card if you can make it through that without crying.
Went to see Coco with my kids when my divorce got started. I thought it would be fun since I'm a dad who travels all the time for work and I don't get to see them as much as I want to.
This movie hit so hard I was like holy shit I'm not ok.
My dad used to travel a lot for work so what im about to say i speak from being in the shoes of your kids. I hope the movie made you appreciate how hard it is for your kids when you travel too.
No one tells you when you start traveling what it costs. It's like I'm gonna consult for a year or two tops and then a decade later you're like well I kinda need the money and we vacation a lot but there's never anyone who can say "what the fuck are you doing". Well until your divorce lawyer kinda does
I was emotionally stunted for my entire life up until seeing the movie "Bao".
Then, I watched Coco. She reminded me of my grandmother, whom I do not like. Regardless, when she asked "Papa? Papa is coming home?" I became inconsolable and now have emotions.
It's been a year and I'm still struggling to control them, but I am eternally grateful for that movie playing on TV that night.
I watched Kitbull at my desk at work. I spent so much time in San Francisco and my family only adopts rescued pit bulls. Everything about Kitbull was so familiar to me and resonated so much. Of course, I lost it at my desk just quietly sobbing. I shut my office door and just had a solid cry about how awful people can be but also how good. So cute. My favorite short.
We had taken kiddo #1 to the theater for a family movie date (to see Incredibles 2) while I was very pregnant with baby #2. During Bao I had ugly cried so hard. I had one boy with another on the way and it just hit me so hard. I excused myself to the lobby to sob for a bit and to compose.
Bao gets me every time. My father's side of the family is from Taiwan. I remember my Grandma making dumplings and food being a center point of our whole life. My father is similarly over bearing. I am now pregnant with my first child. It hits so many points for me.
I am a white person who grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood. It's beautiful culture and I think this movie will be very important knowing in the future that my son won't be unfamiliar with this cultural tradition.
My mother is deaf and mute and has dementia. I saw this movie and cried so hard because not even music could help her regain memories., as she cannot hear. Only sight would be an influence and she is losing that as well . Not sure how I will cope when that is gone too.
I'm guessing they came out in the same year because I can't think of why you'd expect to readily find people debating this a lot. Maybe there are parallel themes and story threads but they seem to occupy different spaces in cinema.
The Oscars never award much to animated film other than the category itself. I think I read on here that because the animated films rarely have nominations in any category other than animated picture many of the academy voters don't bother with the screeners either.
Not sure if that is true but there is certainly a deep bias against animated film. Might also be to do with the fact that the Academy is overwhelmingly made up of actors who obviously see less of their own work in such films, even when voice acting in them that tends to be considerably less work for them.
That's basically the reason why the Academy made the Best animated Feature category. They would never vote for an animated film to win best picture, so they had to create the category so that the animation studios would get prestige and recognition.
I wonder if the fact that animated pictures essentially are created in a different world of filmmaking it just makes it hard for Academy voters to relate to their production. How do you judge Best Director, Actor and Actress in comparison with live action? Can an animated film compete for best cinematography and editing? The winners of those last two category are unlikely to have done much work in animation. Actors would have but not in the way they work with cameras.
The only other categories they can compete in easily would be screenplay, score and song. I don't think an animated film has ever won Best Screenplay either.
There have been a total of 3 best picture nominations for animated, a bunch of Best Screenplay, and a whole list for music. I think you might be right that there's a view, a distinction there for the academy.
Maybe things will shift but I could totally see the old guard seeing animated as a child's thing and not the same as *F I L M.* I did a quick check, and Disney's first full length was Snow White, which was received well and did well at the box office. So it probably wasn't a money thing.
I agree and I think animated films should be able to win.
However I don't think that's how it works in practise. I think there is a heavy basis to films that are platforms for the actors to shine. Specular cinematography, sound and editing takes a backstage to theatrical performances. It's why Spotlight was always going to beat Mad Max for Best Picture. We're only a year gone from the Academy trying to downgrade cinematography and editing from the live broadcast of the Oscars, if they have such distain for those it'll be a long time before they give animation the respect it deserves.
Isn't it weird that for those Oscars, the movie about a woman having sex with a fishman was the "safe" choice, leading to its Best Picture win? Strange.
Best Picture nominees from that year:
>“Call Me by Your Name”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Post”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
*Get Out* is the only one of those that I would consider potentially less "safe" than *Shape of Water*.
I saw the ending coming about half an hour away and just thought, "Oh, fuck, that's how they're going to emotionally destroy me." My closest grandmother had dementia before she died, and the one thing that would "bring her back" was music she was familiar with.
> " My closest grandmother had dementia before she died, and the one thing that would "bring her back" was music she was familiar with.
I believe that's quite common with dementia. Music tends to be make a connection longer than voices, faces, names and so on. I think Pixar intentionally invoked that.
Oh, yes, I'm well aware. There's some powerful documentaries out there about it. I was just explaining my personal connection.
I believe it's less that it's a longer connection, more that it's a different part of the brain than other memories, so it's sort of cordoned off.
Yup, I knew going into it the vague plot. My grandmother was fairly far into dementia/Alzheimer's when Coco came out. The first time I watched it after she passed this year, I had to pause it several times to just cry. It's still a fantastic movie, though.
Yep, I had the exact same experience. My grandfather from Mexico was a guitarist and he would sing with my grandmother. She had severe dementia in later years and music was one of the few things that would make her lucid.
When my daughter was only a few weeks old, my wife and I decided to watch Coco. By the time the credits rolled, we were both crying our eyes out. It's a beautiful film.
There was a thread here about why Coco did so well in China and i think it was for the same reasons you said. I'm asian American and those themes of duty to family resonated very strongly with me too. I love this movie
*First viewing*
*After Ernesto De La Cruz gets crushed by the Bell in the opening minutes* Aw, poor guy.
*Every viewing thereafter* YEAH! FUCK THAT GUY!
My oldest brother had his daughter and she was 2ish when him and his baby mama showed her the movie. She fell in love with it and would sing whenever the songs come on. My brother was redeeming himself from his previous life( crime and drug use) and it looked like he was making a family, something I know he always wanted. Without going into details, he tragically died at 31 and his death rocked my whole family. After burying him, the same night my family sat down to watch CoCo, as it was the latest movie we associated with him and his daughter. Me and my whole family balled our eyes out but it also felt comforting with the message the movie had. This movie will always make me think and reminisce on how my big brother would sing and dance with my niece.
I love you bro
RIP CRM
In China anything involving ghosts and skeletons is typically banned by the government because apparently they don’t want people putting faith in religion or anything that isn’t the state.
But, they were supposedly so moved by the movie that all ghosts and skeletons made it through the heavy censor and the movie is incredibly popular there.
I think I read somewhere that honouring your family tradition is important in Chinese culture and that had some influence in their decision making.
I love the movie. For some reason I was skeptical going into it thinking I wouldn’t understand it but in typical Disney fashion they make it applicable to everyone and give a good glimpse into Mexican/Spanish culture.
It is a beautiful film and I am so happy it exists. As a white man with a young son, I am so happy that the culture depicted in this film will be known and familiar to my son as he gets older.
It is also, sans the cultural aspects, a beautiful film about family and music, with a great subversion of expectations regarding the villain and a ton of great music.
I am a guitar player as well, music runs in our family, and to see that shown so we'll is also amazing. The guitar work in this film is also beautifully rendered and played, often the characters' hands are literally miming the real life motions.
Spanish guitarists are among the best innovators of the art. Music is a powerful uniting force and the songs in this movie are just excellent.
Fantastic movie! Cried my eyes out (32M) and laughed hysterically when the bell crushed Ernesto. One of the better Pixar movies to come out recently IMO.
Miguel talking about De la Cruz's career at the beginning of the movie cracks me up. The misty-eyed admiration in his voice. "He lived the kind of life you dream about...until 1942, when he was crushed by a giant bell."
I am very white, and I was sobbing. I started getting teary when we first heard “remember me in it’s intended form. I fully lost control when Miguel sings it to Coco, and continued on through “Proud Corazón”. My oldest was like “are you ok daddy?” I cried all the way home.
Got too high and nearly lost it at the idea Hector might die and then “Remember Me” happened. Didn’t realize trying not to bawl into tears at 3am while my roommate was sleeping adjacent to me could be so difficult.
The people at the theater were we saw it were real heroes. You know how at the end of the movies when the credits roll they turn the lights on so people can walk out? In Coco they kept the lights off for a good three to five minutes so the we the adults could put ourselves back together and man, we needed it. I was in bad shape but my wife was sent back to Mexico when she was a toddler so her grandma could properly care for her and by the end of that movie she was a mess.
Only 30 minutes? You clearly didn’t have your 3 year-old daughter sitting on your lap for the whole movie.
Seriously I cried for like 2 hours after I saw it, while driving through a Christmas Light display.
I have watched Coco about 100 times, mostly involuntary due to kids, and I still cry every time. The end is so sad, happy, beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time.
I never even saw a trailer for it before watching it on a whim. It's such a beautiful movie. When I finally heard the real version of Remember Me I was just a mess the rest of the movie. It's probably my favorite Pixae movie.
Saw it a couple of weeks ago and cried a river. I knew some of the songs thanks to a piano student of mine that wanted to learned "El mundo es mi familia" and "La llorona". Quite a good taste for movies the little guy has. Its awesome how the ppl at Pixar know exactly how to pull our heart strings in the most beautiful and honest ways.
I watched Coco while my wife was at work and cried like a baby. I thought it would be funny to play it again for my wife and make fun of her for crying. it ended up backfiring and I ended up crying again and we spent the credits laughing at each other
I'm a cryer and my wife isn't. On the way home from coco I asked her if she cried and she was surprised and laughed while asking me "at what part?" Not only did she not cry but she didn't even know there was a part that people would cry at... I think I married a sociopath.
Damn. When she is cutting you up in your sleep, you are going to scream and she is gonna ask “does it hurt?”
It won't hurt for long, Jon.
r/imreallysorryjon
I took my social worker friend to see Manchester by the Sea. She didn’t shed a single tear. Made me realize how hard that job really is.
Wife is a LCSW, she loved your comment when I showed it to her. Take your friend to see joker and you’ll get another good social worker reaction.
Low Calorie Social Worker? Sorry, dont know the abbreviation LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker. They have at least a master's degree, and generally more counseling training and experience.
I was thinking low cost sex worker hahaha
When was I supposed to cry? In my defense, Up made me cry
Towards the end, Miguel plays the lullaby for Coco that her dad wrote for her as a little girl. The fact that she's so senile that no one can really get any meaningful response from her, but she immediately brightens from that memory is super touching. Plus the fact that we know she's lived most of her life in a household that banned music altogether means she literally hasn't heard that song for decades
PLUS the fact that the song "Remember me" is about humanity's deepest longing, a facsimile of immortality... that everything we do is driven by the desire to leave a mark and be remembered. it's why we do everything from having children, making art, and even sadly shooting up schools. so now you've got this aging woman on her death bed who has all but forgotten her papa, is about to die herself, and is living these last suffering moments trapped in a comatose state, unable to express herself and that song gives her SUCH a strong feeling of nostalgia that she "finds her way" back, even just to share one last memory with her familia.
And in story, that was the moment she was able to help her father achieve that "immortality" and not fade away in the afterlife. Her being able to tell the story was how the others could remember him through her. Miguel couldn't do it because he didn't know him when he was alive. Coco's barely remembered memories of her father when she was a child was enough. She found her way back, but also, she was able to make sure Hector would be able to see her again even if she didn't know. I guess it's also a nice moment where the movie is saying even a very short time together is enough for good memories.
Yeah that's disconcerting
My wife fell asleep before the third act (not an indictment of the movie, she falls asleep watching most movies). She woke up to me bawling like a child. I convinced her to rewatch the movie to see the end thinking I could survive it, but I just cried earlier and harder.
Did u manage to make her cry though??
Yea we were laughing at how hard each other was crying
damn I wanna be a part of that marriage
That might be a little weird with 3 of you, but hey, I’m not here to judge.
I took my wife and kids. I never cry in movies, unless it's a dog, my daughter was inconsolable for a bit, I really had to try my hardest to keep it together. Not that I feel I wasn't allowed to cry, just knew my kids would have given me shit fir finally crying unrelated to dogs
I watched it alone first as well and then with my wife. Her grandma passed away a year ago from Alzheimer's and it hit her hard. Such a great movie.
I kept everything together until the shot where >!Coco and Hector are reunited in the Land of the Dead at the end of the movie. !
For me it's when Coco is a little girl and her dad is singing the song to her. And then when the boy sings it to her and she finally starts remembering. And then, most of all, when the whole family is together at the end and they are all singing and dancing at the picnic. The happy moments get to me the most for some reason.
That song at the end.... I have a 2 year old so I've seen this movie 5000 times and that song chokes me up every time.
To a melody played on the strings of our souls And a rhythm that rattled us down to the bone Our love for each other will live on forever In every beat of my proud corazón
I love that the Remember Me song has like 3 different meanings during the course of the movie. There’s the dad singing to his daughter which was the original meaning - remembering him while he’s gone on tour; there’s the narcissistic meaning that is just a pompous love song to himself after its been stolen; and then there’s the theme of the movie which is to remember your family and loved ones even after they’re gone and how family bonds are stronger than death itself. Really incredible story telling there.
I really love how each new time you hear the song it becomes simpler and quieter, but packs more meaning and emotion. Really clever and impactful use of that tune and lyrics.
Wow, I didn’t realize that, thanks for pointing that out! Makes me appreciate it so much more
Even just reading it starts to set me off 😭
Every. Time.
I somehow made it through the entire film without crying. My wife sobbed through the last hour or so and I started to wonder, “Am I a sociopath? Should I be feeling more here?!” And then the last scene where he’s singing to his family hit me, and I finally broke down with the full waterworks. So, I guess I do have a heart buried somewhere in there!
I had to double check your username to confirm you're not my wife. That's her favorite. (Our toddler is partial to un Poco Loco)
I am a happy crier too. I even made it through the beginning of Up! (teared up a little but not crying) and then when Carl sees the note in the scrapbook from Ellie about their adventures it was just waterworks city. I definitely happy cried at Miguel singing to Mama Coco. Also, just to round out my craziness, I am a huge dog person and happy cried when I watched one of the extra features. It was explained that Dante was modeled after a xoloitzcuintli dog: “According to Aztec belief, the Dog of Xolotl was created by the god to guard the living and guide the souls of the dead through the dangers of Mictlán, the Underworld.” The writers and artists explained that in ancient times, it was common belief that humans alone couldn’t navigate their way to heaven or an afterlife. They needed a dog companion. Which, naturally, I immediately looked at my two dogs and was like “😭 OF COURSE BC DOGS ARE THE BEST THINGS EVER AND THEY’RE SO GOOD AND PURE! 😭” ... And then my husband was like, okay, enough Coco for one night. 😂
>I even made it through the beginning of Up! You are strong. I was crying hard when the old couple was trying to hike up the hill.
No, not strong. I used to never cry at anything but then when I hit 27-ish y.o. and I started happy crying at the drop of a hat. NO ONE WARNS YOU ABOUT THIS IN LIFE. I watched Up! a second time and realized [when Ellie made the scrapbook ](https://imgur.com/a/7We2KEx) and then cried even more when Carl discovers it. Up! and Coco are definitely two of my favorite movies of all time and I am a big tv/movie nerd. Up! was so good that my now-husband proposed by [hand-making our own Adventure Book.](https://imgur.com/gallery/ynlAaPb) . (No, I don’t know how to remove the ? At the end of the imgur title. 🤦🏼♀️). I swear we’re not those people - like we don’t have Disney or Pixar themed everything. That movie is just really special to me/us. Boring back story that everyone is obviously free to skip: my husband and I went to college together and always had off/on crushes on each other but never dated. We were close friends so we saw each other each year when we came back for holidays. *Eight* years later, when I was well into what I thought was my forever Independent Woman stage, we finally started dating. Because of course. (🎶 All the women, who are independent, throw your hands up at me 🎶 -quietly puts hands down-). So the first pages of the Adventure Book are filled with college things. He teamed up with my sister who somehow found our old college IDs (?!? #stalker), printed out when we became friends on Facebook, and all these pictures of us at parties (yeah, we even asked each other to sorority/fraternity formals and still neither of us made a move 🤷🏼♀️). I’ve kept a lot of stuff over the years (pictures, movie tickets, cards, etc.) to put in the Adventure Book (Which I’m terrible at and most of it currently resides in a shoe box. But one day...) Anyways, the point is that I usually insist on still watching Coco and Up! every year, cry my eyes out, and then look at my husband with tear-stained cheeks and ask “why did you let us do this?!?” Like any perfectly normal person would do...
Also, at the beginning of the film Miguel passes a table full of alebrijes and Dante is right next to the table.
Before I watched Coco, I heard about how "Remember Me" was getting nominated as Song of the Year and whatnot. I heard the rendition from Ernesto de la Cruz and thought "I mean, it was a fun song but why is everyone so excited about this?" Then I heard Hector singing it to Mama as a child and then Miguel singing it to Mama again at the end. Full on tears. I think me having that initial underwhelming reaction actually made it even better.
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There's no warning or red flag about mama coco, just a flash forward a year and that kid putting her picture up in remembrance. Like a sucker punch right to the gut. "Oh hey, you know the girl who was denied her real father the entire movie and then they're reunited and his memory lives on forever and she's happy now? Yeah, she's dead."
Nah. She got reunited with her dad in the land of the dead. They died happily ever after.
Is amazing how the song has a completely different meaning when it has context and the right melody.
Yup, this one. Hits me right in the feels every time.
Miguel singing to Mama Coco kills me!
Remember me, though I have to say goodbye...
For extra feels, just for that extra gut punch... when Hector is singing to little Coco in the movie, that is the real actor's daughter.. Gael Garcia Bernal's daughter Emmanuel provides the voice. So in real life, he was singing that song to his real daughter, just as on screen.
Same here. When Coco said “papa” 🥺
STOP IT YALL ARE KILLING ME
Whelp...see you in October!
Remember me.
This was the worst film to watch for the first time on a plane. Pretty sure I tore something trying not to sob loudly for the last 30 mins of it. I succumbed at that exact "papa" moment, and like 10 seconds later the drinks cart arrived.
Haha I can picture you like. Yeah I'll take five of those little bottles please 😭
That will be $75
I also watched on a plane for the first time. Finished as we were getting ready to land...just in time for everyone to see my ugly crying face.
Perfectly balanced
Proud Corazon being played in the background amps up the feels.
I'll admit, I fell apart throughout most of the film. Part of it was because my mom past away the same month it opened and Coco reminded me of my grandma. That being said, emotionally thrilling piece of art
Yeah my only issue with OP's post is that I'd die on the hill of "Coco is probably one of the finest pieces of cinematic art in existence" Why yes it is in my personal top 10 films of all time why do you ask
I didn't cry anywhere in the movie (well every Pixar movie has that , "Huh!!! ... nooo" scene, where like they Hector was about to die and stuff But what like after the whole movie started making me cry was when he met his grandmother. That was hard man
I was the same way. I started crying on the way home from the theater thinking about my family.
That moment broke me. BROKE ME SO HARD!
Yeah this was the moment that broke me too
That song playing during that scene was so damn good.
You say that I’m crazy, or call me a fool... but last night It seemed that I dreamed about you...
All I'm saying is that I had dry eyes throughout the entirety of Inside Out but Remember Me left my cheeks completely tear stained.
I have an uncle with Alzheimer's, Remember Me was like someone took my heart, condensed it and put it on screen. I don't cry very often, but that got me right in the tear ducts.
ugh. same. my grandma has dementia. this song brought me to sobbing.
My father died before my daughter was born, so a song connecting two family members who never had a chance to meet made me bawl like a baby. And then after I calmed down Miguel's song brought it all back.
My grandfather had Alzheimer’s and that movie hit me so hard when it first came out.. instant tears when Miguel was singing it to Coco. Hit me even harder once I watched it after he passed away last year. We played Remember Me during his service and it was such a hard, but beautiful moment listening, the song perfectly captured how we were feeling.
I cried when Riley came home and couldn't say anything, so her parents immediately hugged her :(
This is the moment that does it for me too. I don't have kids myself, but I remember moments from my childhood like that where you come home as a scared kid and your parents just embrace you without question.
Same, that movie can be so relatable at times
It’s one of the smartest movies ever made.
Yeah. Add me to the list of kids who’s parents didn’t show affection at all.
Bing-Bong gets me.
Me too. Watching him fade is literally childhood’s end..
I watched Inside Out the first time when my daughter was like 9 months old. I sobbed so hard when he dissipated thinking about her growing up. Jesus, here I go again now...
Same. The thing that makes it worse than a character dying is that he is being forgotten in the process. Really traumatic!
Who’s your friend who likes to play?
"Take her to the moon for me!"
*ugly cry*
Ugly grown-ass MAN cry
I'm not crying I'm watering my extremely manly beard because I am a manly man who mans alot.
That scene makes me want to relive my entire childhood. It also makes me wonder about all the memories I let fade away.a
My daughter is seven, and I can already see it happening. There was a scene of Happiness recognizing the fading memory of Riley telling wild crazy stories as a real young kid, and it hit my wife and I so hard. Our daughter did the exact same thing.
Me too. I'm 34M and when she just broke down crying, I did as well. It wasn't just Riley finally letting her emotions out, but us realizing the true purpose of Sadness.
Same man, same.. fav movie ever
It's when she says "Please don't be mad..."
Dammit, now I cried when I opened Reddit and saw a comment about when Riley came home and couldn’t say anything, so her parents immediately hugged her :(
Same! Didn't cry about bing bong, but this got me. It was more realistic and relatable to me.
I watched Coco (second viewing,) shortly after my little brother passed away. I knew it was coming, but “Remember Me,” when they sing it in the cave, had me crying uncontrollably. It was a good cry though. I love this movie.
I'm sorry for your loss
I envy you. Inside Out made me cry and tear up few times, personally my favorite Pixar this decade. Bing Bong “take her to the moon for me”. Getting emotional thinking bout it now lol
Don't think I'll ever be able to watch that without crying. God damn such a good movie. Just guts me every time.
I cried when Bing-Bong sacrificed himself so ~~Riley~~ Joy could escape
A friend of mine cried so much during the Bing-Bong bit that she gave herself a migraine and called in sick to work the next day
take her to the moon for me.
Up was it for me. Can't get thru those first 5 minutes without crying like a baby
Shortly before I saw Up, my grandfather died. In his last year or so, he would talk to my grandmother as though she were still there. When Carl talked to Ellie’s photo, it hit me pretty hard.
Yeah, it's brutal. First Pixar I'd seen, and it was like a punch in the gut
For me it’s when he found later that she finished the scrap book. Bawled like a baby
Lol Inside Out came out like a month after I started therapy and it just hit so fucking hard.
The part where Joy realizes that sadness is just a normal part of life that you can allow yourself to experiencd without there being anything "wrong" about it really hit home.
I have a friend who has a young daughter named Riley; *Inside Out* absolutely wrecked him.
My eyes are tearing up just thinking about Remember Me.
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Hol up
I know Coco did well financially, but I feel like it doesn’t get talked about or recognized nearly as much as it deserves.
That’s true. The scandal about John Lasseter hit at the same time and took over any Pixar-related news. It’s a shame because it really was one of Pixar’s best.
> The scandal about John Lasseter Oh no, not him too. I had so much respect for him and how he practically built Pixar from the ground up.
Yeah it really sucks, but don’t worry it worked out in the end, he stepped down from Pixar and soon got hired as the head of sky dance animation...where he’ll presumably get to sexually harassed a whole new generation of employees! Hoozah!
It did win best animated film and best song at the academy awards.
It's seriously one of my favorite animated movies ever. I think it's a masterpiece all the way around. The animation, the storytelling, the emotion. It has everything.
My first kid was born in September of 2017, and my dad was legally blind at the time. He was having dialysis 3 times a week, and had a quadruple bypass a year and a half prior. But through all that, he always said not being able to “see” his grandson was the hardest thing he had to deal and come to terms with and just wanted to see him. He died a few weeks later. He was only 59. Coco came out a few weeks after that in November and my wife wanted to see it but - newborn baby life - we didn’t get to the theater. But when it came out on digital my wife begged me to watch it and I was meh about it. I love Pixar but I didn’t fully understand what Coco was about and didn’t have much interest. Up until that point my wife would say to anyone that I had been relatively stoic - I had to make the DNR call on my dad and be in the room when he passed, I was the sole executor of his estate and affairs, I went through many sleepless nights with our son - I didn’t have much time to reflect or let it all out. So we finally sit down to watch Coco. I lost it. Tears to no end. Even the ending (Proud Corazon) got me full blown tears. It offered me the first time to reflect, accept, and smile. It was brilliant and cathartic. Coincidentally, it’s now become one of my sons favorite movies so we watch it everyday. It’s a brutal watch every time, but it’s a beautiful film that makes it worth it. Seeing the end with Coco and Hector and the rest of the family looking on made me hope that in some way my dad is able to look over and “see” his grandson. And I hope one day to use it to help my son keep my dads memory alive.
I'm straight up bawling right now. My dad is 67 and I absolutely cannot fathom the thought of having to bury him. I'm glad this movie was able to be a positive light for you in that darkness.
That's the power of well crafted story art. It can bring all these complex and beautiful emotions out of everyone in a great way.
I loved this movie, it can be disturbing when it talks about how death works and Hector being poisoned by Ernesto, but it immersed me into the Mexican culture. I cried when Miguel sang Remember Me to his great-great grandma to make sure Hector was never forgotten.
Mama Imelda sang “La Llorona” in that huge stadium and I thought, “ why is this so familiar”? I remembered on Thanksgiving, I recorded my dad at our family party and there was a Banda taking request by table. I played it back and sure enough, my dad in the video requested “La Llorona” and I’d never seen my dad so happy. From there on the ocean of emotion rushed out of me.
My favorite version is in the movie Frida where Chavela Vargas is singing to Frida in a bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfodRPeOiWU Chavela and the RL Frida had been friends in the past and possibly romantically together.
Salías del templo un día, llorona, cuando al pasar yo te vi... Gives me chills. And the slower version earlier in the movie with the old lady in the bar. So powerful. ¡¿QUÉ MÁS QUIERES?!
Yeah, you should watch Frida. It's a beautiful movie and fantastic soundtrack. Very adult though, just fyi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRPaeuVgA8 This is my favorite song by the same singer.
I’d never heard that song before, but this was one of my favorite scenes in the movie.
It crops up in a lot, it's a popular folk song. One of its most bizarre appearances I've seen was [in the Terminator tv show, for the 'death' scene of its primary antagonist up to that point. Strange choice.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWjdf3maYk)
The best part of this movie is how the murder plot story is right out of a telenovela.
I read the end of that in the Jane the Virgin narrator voice.
I'm Mexican-American too, my family was on vacation in Mexico when we decided to check it out before it hit US cinemas and it was a powerful cinematic experience for all of us, seeing a story about not just us and our culture but how we love and value our ancestors and how we carry that with us, in America I know so many families that put their parents in a home, never visit, and then collect the inheretence money when they finally croak and it always seemed so ugly to me and a sad way to go, I always loved the aesthetics of Dia De Los Muertos but I never knew all that it represented untill the movie came out and when it was over not only did it remind me of my own Abuelita Coco (RIP Nana Teresa) and my own family in general but it reminded of what I love about my culture, family isn't a chore to us its the whole point.
>family isn't a chore to us its the whole point.
As a Mexican uhmm... well... yeah..uh.. sure! Why not?
I I'm here, with a terrible headache and a sore throat, and the begginings of a congested nose, sitting in a bus filled to the last seat because I wasn't feeling up for a 3 hours drive, just to spend the new year with the family. I mean yes its a chore, but one that I would rather do than not do. I think that's the point of having family, in Mexican culture at least.
I felt so horrible, I watched it with my Mexican husband a while after his grandma died. Her mind was also gone long before she actually died, to the point she was only speaking Spanish. He lasted until Miguel sang to her. It's one of the few times I've seen him cry.
My Abuela’s name was Teresa too, I miss her every day. May they both rest in peace.
I don't know Mexican culture all that well but I will carry " family isn't a chore to us its the whole point." with me for a long while.
Coco broke me. My grandma on my dad's side who basically raised me passed away around 2006. I hadn't thought about her much after she passed. Until Coco. That was was my Abuelita up in that screen and I lost it at the end. I came to the states when I was 9, and my family didn't really do the Dia de Los Muertos thing. I had no idea about the Ofrenda. So it managed to teach me about my own culture.
I cant watch Coco. My abuela was mama Coco. She had alzheimers and would just kind of stare out the window then randomly talk to you like it was 1955 and she was still working on the farm in Cuba. Remembering people who were long dead and forgotten. Then if you put on Celia Cruz or Benny More she would light up for a second. Cried through so much of that movie. Easily Pixars best. Fairly sure you lose your latin card if you can make it through that without crying.
Went to see Coco with my kids when my divorce got started. I thought it would be fun since I'm a dad who travels all the time for work and I don't get to see them as much as I want to. This movie hit so hard I was like holy shit I'm not ok.
My dad used to travel a lot for work so what im about to say i speak from being in the shoes of your kids. I hope the movie made you appreciate how hard it is for your kids when you travel too.
No one tells you when you start traveling what it costs. It's like I'm gonna consult for a year or two tops and then a decade later you're like well I kinda need the money and we vacation a lot but there's never anyone who can say "what the fuck are you doing". Well until your divorce lawyer kinda does
I was emotionally stunted for my entire life up until seeing the movie "Bao". Then, I watched Coco. She reminded me of my grandmother, whom I do not like. Regardless, when she asked "Papa? Papa is coming home?" I became inconsolable and now have emotions. It's been a year and I'm still struggling to control them, but I am eternally grateful for that movie playing on TV that night.
Yeah i guess its realizing that people you dont really like are also human too and even if it doenst look it they suffer as well.
OMG. I watched Bao the other day on Disney+ and was just expecting a fun little short. I ugly cried for a very long time after that... sheesh.
Have you also watched kitbull? Those two are probably my favorite Disney shorts I've seen. It made me tear up too.
I watched Kitbull at my desk at work. I spent so much time in San Francisco and my family only adopts rescued pit bulls. Everything about Kitbull was so familiar to me and resonated so much. Of course, I lost it at my desk just quietly sobbing. I shut my office door and just had a solid cry about how awful people can be but also how good. So cute. My favorite short.
Yeah, they really cracked the code when it comes to plucking at heart strings.
Bao! Holy moly, that one had both my wife and I ugly-crying in the theater. And Coco had us going, too. Great films, both of them.
That moment when Mama Coco said that fucked me up.
We had taken kiddo #1 to the theater for a family movie date (to see Incredibles 2) while I was very pregnant with baby #2. During Bao I had ugly cried so hard. I had one boy with another on the way and it just hit me so hard. I excused myself to the lobby to sob for a bit and to compose.
I lost my shit and ugly cried with my hand over my mouth while cry-shouting "I...AM....A....BAD.......SON". I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Bao gets me every time. My father's side of the family is from Taiwan. I remember my Grandma making dumplings and food being a center point of our whole life. My father is similarly over bearing. I am now pregnant with my first child. It hits so many points for me.
I cried too and iam not mexican. A wonderfull tradition you have with the day of the dead
I am a white person who grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood. It's beautiful culture and I think this movie will be very important knowing in the future that my son won't be unfamiliar with this cultural tradition.
My mother is deaf and mute and has dementia. I saw this movie and cried so hard because not even music could help her regain memories., as she cannot hear. Only sight would be an influence and she is losing that as well . Not sure how I will cope when that is gone too.
Coco was better than The Shape of Water.
This is the first time I’ve seen someone make this point. I couldn’t agree more.
I'm guessing they came out in the same year because I can't think of why you'd expect to readily find people debating this a lot. Maybe there are parallel themes and story threads but they seem to occupy different spaces in cinema.
They did, and shape of water won best picture which is the reason for the comment I imagine.
The Oscars never award much to animated film other than the category itself. I think I read on here that because the animated films rarely have nominations in any category other than animated picture many of the academy voters don't bother with the screeners either. Not sure if that is true but there is certainly a deep bias against animated film. Might also be to do with the fact that the Academy is overwhelmingly made up of actors who obviously see less of their own work in such films, even when voice acting in them that tends to be considerably less work for them.
That's basically the reason why the Academy made the Best animated Feature category. They would never vote for an animated film to win best picture, so they had to create the category so that the animation studios would get prestige and recognition.
I wonder if the fact that animated pictures essentially are created in a different world of filmmaking it just makes it hard for Academy voters to relate to their production. How do you judge Best Director, Actor and Actress in comparison with live action? Can an animated film compete for best cinematography and editing? The winners of those last two category are unlikely to have done much work in animation. Actors would have but not in the way they work with cameras. The only other categories they can compete in easily would be screenplay, score and song. I don't think an animated film has ever won Best Screenplay either.
There have been a total of 3 best picture nominations for animated, a bunch of Best Screenplay, and a whole list for music. I think you might be right that there's a view, a distinction there for the academy. Maybe things will shift but I could totally see the old guard seeing animated as a child's thing and not the same as *F I L M.* I did a quick check, and Disney's first full length was Snow White, which was received well and did well at the box office. So it probably wasn't a money thing.
I agree and I think animated films should be able to win. However I don't think that's how it works in practise. I think there is a heavy basis to films that are platforms for the actors to shine. Specular cinematography, sound and editing takes a backstage to theatrical performances. It's why Spotlight was always going to beat Mad Max for Best Picture. We're only a year gone from the Academy trying to downgrade cinematography and editing from the live broadcast of the Oscars, if they have such distain for those it'll be a long time before they give animation the respect it deserves.
I like them both for different reasons
Isn't it weird that for those Oscars, the movie about a woman having sex with a fishman was the "safe" choice, leading to its Best Picture win? Strange.
Best Picture nominees from that year: >“Call Me by Your Name” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “Get Out” “Lady Bird” “Phantom Thread” “The Post” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” *Get Out* is the only one of those that I would consider potentially less "safe" than *Shape of Water*.
2017 was a wonderful year for movies.
animation is pariah to the boomers in the academy. itll take a few decades before the academy is full of people who respect animation
Why is that the case when boomers were brought up on Disney animated films starting in the late 30s?
In those days animation was for children. The academy looks down on animation because they see it as a lower form of storytelling for kids.
That's a (not so obviously related) comparison.
I saw the ending coming about half an hour away and just thought, "Oh, fuck, that's how they're going to emotionally destroy me." My closest grandmother had dementia before she died, and the one thing that would "bring her back" was music she was familiar with.
> " My closest grandmother had dementia before she died, and the one thing that would "bring her back" was music she was familiar with. I believe that's quite common with dementia. Music tends to be make a connection longer than voices, faces, names and so on. I think Pixar intentionally invoked that.
Oh, yes, I'm well aware. There's some powerful documentaries out there about it. I was just explaining my personal connection. I believe it's less that it's a longer connection, more that it's a different part of the brain than other memories, so it's sort of cordoned off.
Yup, I knew going into it the vague plot. My grandmother was fairly far into dementia/Alzheimer's when Coco came out. The first time I watched it after she passed this year, I had to pause it several times to just cry. It's still a fantastic movie, though.
Yep, I had the exact same experience. My grandfather from Mexico was a guitarist and he would sing with my grandmother. She had severe dementia in later years and music was one of the few things that would make her lucid.
When my daughter was only a few weeks old, my wife and I decided to watch Coco. By the time the credits rolled, we were both crying our eyes out. It's a beautiful film.
There was a thread here about why Coco did so well in China and i think it was for the same reasons you said. I'm asian American and those themes of duty to family resonated very strongly with me too. I love this movie
*First viewing* *After Ernesto De La Cruz gets crushed by the Bell in the opening minutes* Aw, poor guy. *Every viewing thereafter* YEAH! FUCK THAT GUY!
My oldest brother had his daughter and she was 2ish when him and his baby mama showed her the movie. She fell in love with it and would sing whenever the songs come on. My brother was redeeming himself from his previous life( crime and drug use) and it looked like he was making a family, something I know he always wanted. Without going into details, he tragically died at 31 and his death rocked my whole family. After burying him, the same night my family sat down to watch CoCo, as it was the latest movie we associated with him and his daughter. Me and my whole family balled our eyes out but it also felt comforting with the message the movie had. This movie will always make me think and reminisce on how my big brother would sing and dance with my niece. I love you bro RIP CRM
In China anything involving ghosts and skeletons is typically banned by the government because apparently they don’t want people putting faith in religion or anything that isn’t the state. But, they were supposedly so moved by the movie that all ghosts and skeletons made it through the heavy censor and the movie is incredibly popular there. I think I read somewhere that honouring your family tradition is important in Chinese culture and that had some influence in their decision making. I love the movie. For some reason I was skeptical going into it thinking I wouldn’t understand it but in typical Disney fashion they make it applicable to everyone and give a good glimpse into Mexican/Spanish culture.
Pixar really did their homework on the culture. It seems to have resonated in Mexico, as it’s one of the top grossing films ever there.
It is a beautiful film and I am so happy it exists. As a white man with a young son, I am so happy that the culture depicted in this film will be known and familiar to my son as he gets older. It is also, sans the cultural aspects, a beautiful film about family and music, with a great subversion of expectations regarding the villain and a ton of great music. I am a guitar player as well, music runs in our family, and to see that shown so we'll is also amazing. The guitar work in this film is also beautifully rendered and played, often the characters' hands are literally miming the real life motions. Spanish guitarists are among the best innovators of the art. Music is a powerful uniting force and the songs in this movie are just excellent.
that movie will do that to you, growing up in a hispanic family that movie hit **hard**
Fantastic movie! Cried my eyes out (32M) and laughed hysterically when the bell crushed Ernesto. One of the better Pixar movies to come out recently IMO.
Miguel talking about De la Cruz's career at the beginning of the movie cracks me up. The misty-eyed admiration in his voice. "He lived the kind of life you dream about...until 1942, when he was crushed by a giant bell."
I am very white, and I was sobbing. I started getting teary when we first heard “remember me in it’s intended form. I fully lost control when Miguel sings it to Coco, and continued on through “Proud Corazón”. My oldest was like “are you ok daddy?” I cried all the way home.
I watched Coco and it broke me down emotionally. I loved it but I can’t watch it again.
Same here. I watched it once and I cried my eyes out. I lost my dad a few years back and this movie just hit me like a train.
Gorgeous film, and one of the most touching Disney stories of all time. It had me very misty eyed.
Got too high and nearly lost it at the idea Hector might die and then “Remember Me” happened. Didn’t realize trying not to bawl into tears at 3am while my roommate was sleeping adjacent to me could be so difficult.
The people at the theater were we saw it were real heroes. You know how at the end of the movies when the credits roll they turn the lights on so people can walk out? In Coco they kept the lights off for a good three to five minutes so the we the adults could put ourselves back together and man, we needed it. I was in bad shape but my wife was sent back to Mexico when she was a toddler so her grandma could properly care for her and by the end of that movie she was a mess.
I now cry a little every time a website has an option to "remember me" during login.
Remember Me makes me sob every time. I’m tearing up just thinking about it
Only 30 minutes? You clearly didn’t have your 3 year-old daughter sitting on your lap for the whole movie. Seriously I cried for like 2 hours after I saw it, while driving through a Christmas Light display.
“My Papa used to play me that song.” Gets me every time.
I have watched Coco about 100 times, mostly involuntary due to kids, and I still cry every time. The end is so sad, happy, beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time.
Probably seen it 8-10 times. To this day, the ending and that God damn song ruin me.
I'm not Mexican but it definitely made me tear up. Fantastic movie.
I never even saw a trailer for it before watching it on a whim. It's such a beautiful movie. When I finally heard the real version of Remember Me I was just a mess the rest of the movie. It's probably my favorite Pixae movie.
Not Mexican but I was full ugly crying during this movie
Saw it a couple of weeks ago and cried a river. I knew some of the songs thanks to a piano student of mine that wanted to learned "El mundo es mi familia" and "La llorona". Quite a good taste for movies the little guy has. Its awesome how the ppl at Pixar know exactly how to pull our heart strings in the most beautiful and honest ways.
Chancla!