Stephen Thompson

Coco is talking about death and family and remembrance and the power of music and the way memory gets distorted and the way memory can form myth.

There are so many big ideas in this film.

But also, Aisha, I don't think you've even mentioned how...

gorgeous.

Oh my goodness.

Coco is to look at.

It really is.

And it also really felt lived in.

It felt like it took this world seriously and made something that honored that tradition instead of just like using it for storytelling beats.

Yes.

Hey, speaking of emotional gut punches, what do you got for number four?

Aisha, I rewatched the sequence the other day and of course just bawled all over the place the way you did watching Coco.

And what struck me rewatching it, you know, the way it lays out, you get this kind of newsreel with like a bunch of exposition.

And then you have eight and a half minutes of

Eight and a half perfectly scored minutes.

You know, it starts out with dialogue and eventually goes wordless.

And you are just seeing the playing out of these two intertwined lives.

But amid all of that emotion, it is really important to note, this is a fun movie.

This is a funny movie.

Squirrel!