The next film in Pixar’s famous line-up, “Turning Red”, directed by Oscar-winning Domee Shi and told through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl who had big shoes to fill as she faced the audience with a theatrical streaming only. release.
“Red”, The latest Pixar Animation Studios movie, brings back the nostalgic air of the 2000s from the eyes of a 13-year-old. Talk about CRINGE in the most relevant way.
But, even with an hour and forty minutes, director Domee Shi makes this film pass in the blink of an eye. In a way, this is good. This movie has a perfect atmosphere, though I would not be surprised if there is some kind of animated series in its future. However, “Turning Red” is a perfect fit for what Pixar does best: beautiful animations and heart-wrenching messages.
Following Meilin’s character – Rosalie Chiang’s voice – the audience acquires a fascinating protagonist constantly. However, this film presents something even more important than Meilin as a single focus: Miriam’s girlfriends, Priya and Abby, played by Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Hyein Park, respectively. It’s probably Meilin’s most important relationship, with Ming’s mother, with Sandra Oh’s voice.
At its core, “Turning Red” presents the protagonist’s struggle to balance her relationship with her parents, while discovering her own personality, through the lens of a 13-year-old who grows up.
This idea is something that is no stranger to Pixar. Watching some of their most recent movies, such as “Soul”, “Luca” and “Coco”, it becomes clear that Pixar’s emphasis is on individuality and its balance in your relationships. The idea of being true to yourself while touring the world around you is not an easy feat – whether it means going against your family grain or shaking the world around you completely.
This is also something that Pixar does through the lens of many different perspectives. Something remarkable about the aforementioned movies, along with “Turning Red” is the way in which everyone highlights different cultures and backgrounds. Pixar has enabled people of many different backgrounds to see themselves in the movies they consume.
When these themes are combined with the use of three-dimensional and two-dimensional cartoon styles, the end result is simply beautiful. Vivid colors and quirky patterns in the style of the 2000s will wrap you in a warm nostalgia safety blanket. The opening titles alone look like the opening of the “That’s So Raven” comedy series combined with the animated version of Lizze’s inner thoughts from the show Lizzie Mcguire For the audience that grew up watching these shows every day after school, the opening of “Turning Red” is reminiscent of childhood memories mixed with the amazing and soothing atmosphere of Pixar cartoons.
Moving on, of course, to the thing he just can not pass without speaking: the soundtrack of the film. Especially the founding and founding of the band 4 * Town, a boys’ band that specially edited this film with Jordan Fisher as Robaire, Finneas as Jesse, Josh Levi as Aaron Z, Topher Ngo as Aaron T and Grayson Villanueva as Tae Young. The band, despite being fantastic and animated, hit No. 50 on the Billboard Top 100 charts with their incredibly catchy single “Nobody Like U”. This track appears so often in this movie that you will no doubt sing it long after the titles are completed.
However, the most important aspects of this film can be summarized in these two excerpts. First, “I see you Mei-Mei, you try to make them all happy, but you are so hard on yourself. And if I found out about it. “Sorry.” a key element of the film as it emphasizes the healing of generations.When Ming apologizes for the role she played in Meilin’s self-critical nature, she gives a tone of recognition to an idea that often goes unsaid.
Wounded people hurt people – but the cycle does not always have to go that way.
The second of the two most important passages comes to an end. “We all have an inner monster. We all have a messy, noisy, weird part of ourselves hidden. And many of us never leave it out. But I did. HOW ARE YOU? ”The line is delivered by Meilin in a narrative at the end of the film, as it summarizes everything she has learned throughout the film.
Pixar is famous for teaching lessons through its movies and one of the most important lessons you can learn from this movie is to be yourself – completely and freely. The film is undoubtedly a frantic festival, but that is what makes it work, as well as what plays directly in its final message. When you’re 13, you do not necessarily worry all the time about what others will think of you, you just do it. It is when you grow old and look back and think “My God, it was so annoying” because now you see it all through a much more critical eye. “Turning Red” restores the freedom you felt when you were 13 and loving a boy working in a corner store was life or death.
Overall, this movie is witty, inherent and totally adorable. It’s a fun watch when you have to clean your head or wear something while typing on a notebook. So, if you need this good solution for the nostalgia of 2000 and you suddenly have a craving for aesthetically pleasing cartoons, this is the movie for you.
Remember that it is okay to become messy, loud and even a little weird.
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