An unknown sage used to say, "it's good to forgive, but it's best to forget". But until I've watched the newest Pixar animation movie Coco, now I would like to revert it to --- "it's good to forget, but it's best to forgive." Forgiveness and forgetness, are the major themes resonating with me through the whole 90 minutes and I deeply believe they are the truth behind every scary, sad and cheerful scenes, even beyond the final happy ending.
The old, deep-set wrinkled, drowsy mama Coco, sitting still in an armchair, is like a living history pool but has begun to dry up --- she has become weaker and dumber sadly. On the altar where her father's frontal view has been ripped from their family photo(at the end of the film Coco took it out back from a notebook), all the families are put into a serious position with their best representative handmade crafts exhibited in the front. Shoe-makering, is the business what the whole family has been engaged in, passed down and proud of, and Miguel, the 12-year-old descendant is naturally deemed as a successor in this regard. Then the whole plot twists in a not-hard-guessing way, Miguel fights for his music possibility from the family ban and curse and conquers an array of obstacles in the world of skeletons where he could alway rise to the occasions and split good from bad. When Hector(艾克多) reveals the sanctimonious music king, pointing out Ernesto poisoned him to death only to possess those famous, catchy songs to himself, brutally led to his beloved wife and daughter an indeliberate abandonment. Miguel, all at a once, recognizes the weary, tattered, poor vagrant is his real great great grand father!
All the skeleton families have forgiven Hector, even his tough stubborn wife Mellda, who has sang a love song dedicated to her misfortunate died-young spouse in the fight for Hector's last photograph back. But it's too late. Coco, the only existing person in the living world is deleting her memories all about Hector. For all the years since Hector died probably in his early thirties when Coco was five or six, Coco has been recounting stories about her dad. She's never forgotten him really. But she just couldn't forgive him for his uninformed disappearing, discard of family dedication and no-place-to-find loving voice. I reckon Mellda and Coco used to have stood in the same side to against this ruthless husband and father and even stipulated the family rules for Miguel's grandma and parents to stay away from any thing to do with music and that's the deep-rooted reason to explain what Miguel has suffered and refrained from in his family. They couldn't forgive and only death could forcibly put them to forget.
The movie uses Mexican Day of Death to give each life a second chance to exist in another world and besides, they could go across a pedal bridge back to visit their living families who still hold them both in mind and on the altars at home. Since Hector dies, he never gets a chance to visit back which means Mellda ripped him from family photo. And Coco, after witnessing father and mother's successive left, has never put the ripped part back together to the altar. Why? If she has learned and inherited hostility from her mother, or she has been in a hesitating state? Hard to forgive, that is the only answer. So now Hector is going to die unforgivingly if old Coco diseases quietly, or in a forgivingly way if she recalls him before the last breath. But the director gave us a third, tenderest and most loving ending---
"Remember me, tough I have to say goodbye. Remember me, though I have to travel far..." Coco successfully retrieved her memories about Hector. She has forgiven. Even she knows nothing about the truth, her heart has automatically opened for the past and the being. Just like what Mellda requests from Miguel the last time," I bless you go back to the living world and only to keep your self save and nothing else". Hatred gone, knob unravelled, love shines.
To forgive first, then forget.
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