Name: 可可夜總會告訴你如何永遠的活著（Coco: How to Live Forever | Video Essay）
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情態助動詞 B1

"We may have our differences, but nothing's more important than family."

情態副詞

Coco leaves us with some refreshingly different messages from what we're used to seeing.

"Children got to be free, to lead their own lives."

We're used to hearing a lot about following our hearts and chasing our dreams.

But Coco says that our individual ambitions are less important

than caring for our families and communities.

It teaches kids that death doesn't have to be a scary thing that we all try to ignore.

In Coco, Death isn't the end because family love lives on

So the movie is a really nice shift from the way a lot of us automatically think about

If we take it to heart, we (both kids and adults) can have a healthier relationship

pass on good memories and traditions to future generations,

and -- in doing so -- we can live forever.

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we tend to distract ourselves from the complex emotions surrounding death.

But the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos

lets people reflect on death together in a positive, communal way.

The holiday is framed as a way to celebrate family.

It emphasizes that you can have deep connections to ancestors you've never even met,

and active relationships with people you've known who have passed away.

By channeling this holiday, Coco can presumably reach kids

before they form an impression of death as inherently frightening.

When Miguel meets his dead ancestors, briefly we get some intimidating music,

Miguel is scared, the skeletons are scared of him as well.

but pretty quickly his skeletal ancestors become funny and lovable.

Coco is a sincere, moving portrait of unconditional love for family, both here and gone.

"Coco's themes of family are rooted completely in the same themes of family

With Dia de Muertos there's an obligation to remember your loved ones

and to pass their stories to the next generation,

and ultimately to really ensure that their memory never fades."

When Miguel enters the land of the dead, Miguel's ancestors bond with him immediately,

And they have, because they've been watching him.

We don't learn until the end of the movie that Hector and Miguel are related,

but they're drawn to each other so effortlessly and lovingly

that when we learn of their familial bond, it just makes sense.

Even if it seems miraculous that the two happened to find each other,

Miguel has picked up fragments of Hector's memory from his family --

he discovered Hector's photo on the ofrenda.

So Hector and Miguel form a beautiful, time-and-space defying friendship

because of these hidden threads of memory that tie them together.

The biggest example of unconditional family love centers on the title character, Mama

Miguel's great grandma Coco has dementia, and barely speaks.

She doesn't seem to be the same person she once was,

she may not even really seem to be present,

but her family still loves her with all their hearts.

Miguel updates her on his life and speaks to her as if she understands,

"I used to run like this, but now I run like this and it's way faster!"

And while Coco isn't an active part of these conversations,

her presence is still felt and appreciated.

She's a symbol of the strong connections we can have with family even after their minds

and even after they have left us altogether.

As the eldest member of the Rivera family, the last living person who remembers Hector,

Mama Coco is the bridge between the living and the dead.

She turns out to be the key to the story,

because Miguel needs to help her remember her father

to save Hector from the Final Death of being forgotten.

When Coco shares her memories of her father's music,

this keeps Hector alive for future generations and binds the whole living family stronger.

And at the end when Coco finally passes over that bridge between the living and the dead,

she's as much a part of the family as ever.

So it speaks volumes that the movie is named after Mama Coco.

The whole movie is a loving tribute to her spirit which lives on in her family's memory.

Keeping a family strong means caring for our elders

and respecting them even when their minds are leaving them,

The message that love doesn't end when somebody dies is a great comfort to kids and all of

Coco also shows us that it's up to the living to keep the dead from disappearing.

It's our responsibility to put our ancestors' pictures on the ofrenda

Coco makes the concept, “They'll live on in our memories,” literal.

If someone's no longer remembered by any living people,

they undergo "The Final Death" and disappear permanently,

It's a little dark to think about the “final death” of being forgotten,

By remembering our family, we prevent them from ever going away.

And if we want to live forever, we teach our kids to remember in the same way.

The film uses de la Cruz to explore questions of legacy,

and the love of the public world versus family.

Ernesto's legacy is vain, superficial and fake.

Sure, he's got lots of adoring fans who leave him offerings,

But his connection to the living is shallow.

He just wants to be worshipped like a god,

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