All Forms of Art

Coco was the Christmas Eve movie last year. It could be surprising. It has nothing to do with Christmas, or does it? It is a beautiful story about love, family, and… music. Miguel, the main character, wants to be a musician, but his family has banned music from their lives for a few generations now. How to live without music? Latin culture and family   Disney and Pixar focused on different cultures around the world to tell their stories. This is most probably one of the reasons their movies are so popular in so many places. In  Coco , Pixar chooses a vibrant cultural background and, in my opinion, the most unexpected of their traditions for a children’s movie: the Day of the Dead ( Día de los Muertos ). It was adorable to see how tight-knit a traditional Mexican family can be, helping their elderly and taking on demanding responsibilities from everyone in the house.  I think what was more surprising, after all, was that the movie was ...

From the very first episode, I found myself very fond of the characters in this show .  Autism is represented in a simple, general way. Nonetheless, with deep, meaningful relationships and without ignoring that, people on the spectrum have more in their lives than just a diagnosis.  [Spoilers ahead] Sam is a grown-up - what’s Elsa’s role now? Sam (Keir Gilchrist) has come of age, and it is time to go to college. A different environment, with different people and, most importantly, diverse and, perhaps, bigger challenges. Emancipation is hard, but he is ready. Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), however… Sam’s mother is in a hard place about her marriage and her life. Sam doesn’t need her so much anymore, and she starts to feel lost. It’s quite common for parents, especially stay-at-home mothers, to start questioning the meaning of their lives and even the value of their efforts as soon as the kids stop being so dependent. It’s not difficult to imagine...