Coco Movie Review - Delightful. Hopeful. Entertaining.

The university I work for featured a free screening of Disney's critically-acclaimed and 2018 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature & Best Song: COCO

This screening was sponsored by UCSF's CLCA (Chicano Latino Campus Association), CHE (Chicanos/Latinos in Health Education), LMSA (Latino Medical Student Association), HSDA (Hispanic Dental Student Association), LAPS (Latino Association of Pharmacy Students), Voces Latinas Nursing Student Association, SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science), LGBT Resource Center, Multicultural Resource Center and Family Services.

I thought, why not, a free screening, I didn't really know anything about the film, but when the lights went out and the movie started, wow, it's been awhile since a film really "moved" me to tears. 

The film was about a young Latino boy named Miguel who has a secret desire to be a musician despite his family's efforts to erase any inclination of any enjoymement of music. The movie quickly sets a tone of what this young boy's expectations are and that no desire for music is part of it.

As the story develops, the protagonist desire strengthens to go against the wishes of his family. Morals sets in from "should I do it" or "follow my family's expectations of me". We all go through some type of pressure to follow what's expected versus to follow our true desires in life. In Miguel's case, music. He secretly honors his hero, Ernesto de la Cruz who was the most famous musician in all of Mexico.
In Miguel's desire to follow his dreams, he learns more about his family, his hero, and his own capabilities. 

Thoroughly entertaining film for both young and old, it gives the viewer their own opportunity to reflect on a passing of a loved one and embrace who they currently have. 

Kudos to Disney and Pixar to bring on the big screen a hopeful and at the same time a delightful story. 

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