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 why their movies are so popular in so many different places. In Coco , Pixar chooses a vibrant cultural background and, in my opinion, the most unexpected of their traditions to a children’s movie: the day of the dead ( Dia De Los Muertos ). It was adorable to see how bonded can be a traditional Mexican family, helping their elderly and demanding responsibilities from everyone in the house.  I think that what was more surprising after all was the fact that the movie was not o

From the very first episode, I found myself very fond of the characters in this show . The autism is represented in a simple, generalist way. Nonetheless, with deep, meaningful relationships and without ignoring that, people in 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 has come of age and it is time to go to college. A different environment, with different people and, most important, diverse and, perhaps, bigger challenges. Emancipation is hard, but he is ready. Elsa 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, start to question themselves about the meaning of their lives and even the value of their effort, as soon as the kids stop being so dependent. It’s not difficult to imagine how complicated it can be for a mot