valiendomother:

xingonaaaa:

goldanaf:

I heard that people did not like Coco and critize it

As a mexican I must say:

• The movie portrays the mexican culture almost perfectly
• The Mexican Towns are like this.
• In the streets we do see sellers and craftworkers.
• The houses do have this architecture
• The facial and body features are like mexican people. I was honestly surprised of the accuracy in the hands, expressions.
• Mexican families do behave this way and it shows perfectly that our families are matriarchies
• The Land of the Dead has buildings with porfirian architecture that can be seen in every city’s downtown.
• The story of how family needs to support your decisions really touched me
• The fucking ending man
• I cried
• I legit cried
• I never cry
• It is beautiful and it broke my heart twice
• Throughout all the movie ibwas screaming YES THIS HAPPENS HERE YES I KNOW THIS YES YES YES
• As a mexican I felt really proud of my culture
• It has nothing to do with the Book of Life
• Nothing!!!!
• I was expecting the same
• It wasn’t
• Las Flores de Cempasuchil looked real
• Wow
• Just
• Wow
• Go watch it

The only thing that sucked from this movie??

The Frozen clip

There’s this critique going around rn. “Shame on Disney/Pixar: Observations on Coco”

But I do love and thoroughly enjoyed Coco. It had my partner and I crying.

As a Mexican myself, I am upset at Coco’s production, how Disney tried to trade mark Day of the death, and how they are completely profiting off of it. I am upset at the capitalization of a culture, yes.

I also heard that the english version was crappy. The movie was released earlier in Mexico and I always watch animations in my native language: Spanish, so to me the dubbing was very well done. But apparently people were complaining about a very thick, stereotyped Mexican accent when speaking English, and some very crappy spanglish.

The representation of family dynamics was very good, the buildings, the environment, the feelings day of the death evokes in people.

I enjoyed the movie, I cried at the ending, I cried because it reminded me of my family and my roots and everything that we stand for. But liking Coco doesn’t mean that it’s free of criticism, and we should address the things that could’ve been better.

(via fymexicanfood)