Therapist Reacts to COCO

chachalacas are birds and also a city in Veracruz Mexico. so i guess chachalacos because it is a band and they used the name in masculine. my guess of course.

This movie is 10 times better in Spanish.

This movie is very similar to my family history. My great grandfather was Mexican and he went to Mexico to find work during the great depression and he and my great grandmother sent letters, and then the letters slowly got fewer and fewer and he was never heard from again. My family never forgave him and wanted nothing to do with Mexican culture, but I always felt a connection to my Mexican heritage that my family rejected, just like Miguel's family rejected music. And I had a feeling there was more to the story. And after doing some digging I found a living connection to my great grandfather in Mexico, and so I found him on Facebook, and being fluent in Spanish because I served my mission Spanish speaking, I was able to get some information from him and it turned out that after my great grandfather went to Mexico, he wasn't allowed to go back to the US, and he couldn't bring his family to Mexico for some reason. So he was stuck there. Granted, he started a new family there, but I don't entirely condemn him cause we're only human. But he didn't keep his "American family" a secret and spoke lovingly of them and how he missed his children and hadn't forgotten about them.

Once I had learned about what Dia de los Muertos was all about, I took a new look at how we in the USA celebrate Halloween. I already didn't like horror movies. But now I had a different way to appreciate family history and those who have passed on before me. Not a celebration of murder, torture, and the most horrific ways people treat each other.

Somewhat related, but It’s so important to know about family. Everyone refused to talk about my Nan who died when I was 5. But I barely knew her for two years (I was adopted at 3 and don’t know about my bio family) so I just feel so lost and left out. I said how badly I wanted to be at her funeral but was told I was too young, so never feel like I got the opportunity to grieve either.

I still feel so awful about it. I have nothing to remember her by, no stories. And I wonder often wether she’d even love me at all. I remember her telling me all the things we’d do together that we never got to. And I’m never going to get past that.

I can barely remember her. And when my parents die that’s it. No one else will ever remember her. I have nothing to pass down

Fun fact. Actually, since Mexico is big and every family have their own details on how to celebrate. Basically the same story of coming back to visit, the photos, the same specific flower that guides the dead (that is part of the original legend, the dead, uses that flower to light the way in the story) , the ofrenda and toys and things that meaned something, etc. All that is true, but every family have their details, some people go to the cemetery some people don't, some people pray some people don't, some people burn "copal" etc.
In my family we also add salt to the ofrenda in a dish and a glass of water for the dead people we don't have photos from and we don't know, that includes strangers who don't have a place to go on that night, is to invite those dead people that don't have a place to go. Of course you can also directly invite dead people to the ofrenda without a photo. If you don't have a photo, a painting, a drawing, any image or just a personal object works to invite them that night.

Anyway, I remembered I didn't understand why they didn't let Hector visit since in my family we always add salt and water for people like Héctor to join in the ofrenda, I just assumed he wanted to go to his especific home instead of wandering and eating in someone's else ofrenda. Later I understood that the movie was also referring to all the inmigrants that couldn't leave USA (if you are ilegal you can't visit your family and go back to your life there without a Visa you also can't leave as you please)

I love this movie, so very much. And the scene where Miguel sings to Mama Coco makes me cry every single time.

Ah, god. Why do you guys insist on making me cry. This is the only Pixar film I have ever cried at.

Is it just me who’s thinking about how he’s pretending to be a skeleton but he’s a child . Meaning a dead kid

One of my favorite moments from this movie is one I haven’t seen mentioned yet. It’s the last scene where they’re all in the city of the dead together and you see that Cocoa is there and she and Hector finally reunite. Me at the beginning of this: I won’t cry I’ll be fine. Me when Cocoa starts showing them the letters and poems: never mind.

Chachalaca is a bird, but in Mexico we colloquially call someone that when they’re talking too much.

I don't remember if the guys mentioned this, but I love how the movie teaches how multiple generations of families in Mexico might all live together in the same house. It really adds to the message of family being a big part of life.

Music and foods can assist in bringing back memories

Coco, Up, and Toy Story always make me cry. I am a middle-aged man and these masterpieces broke me into tears so many times. Kudos to Pixar for making such good films.

Immanuel Kant has stated
That Music is
The Quickening Art... And it is!

Poekhali!

Something that surprise me in the end of the movie is that when Coco was singing free of the fact his family will see him you start to watch as some of others members of his family show up that they also were interested in music and practiced it in private, they even were pretty good too. So basically Coco wasn't the only one since the beggining but no one was brave enough to show that passion to the family until Coco did it

SOOOOO ANASTASIA WHEN 👀

Jonathan tu español es bueno y tienes acento de España. Me sorprendiste

Coco always Manages to make me cry 🙂

Please please pleeeeeease, do a video about Monsters INC. Its my childhood most beloved Pixar movie! PLEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!

chachalaca (informal) (Central America, Mexico)
ADJECTIVE: chatty
FEMININE NOUN: chatterbox

I cried my eyes out the first time I watched Coco, like big ugly sobs, I loved it so much. But this movie has become so much more important to me as my mom has early onset dementia. She's only 59 and I know one day she'll be unresponsive like Coco. But I hold onto the memories that we have, especially when I was a young child, because she says that was the happiest time of her life. And of course I have her stories to pass on to my children when I have them, so they'll know her even if she's gone.

Encanto has a similar thing with the whole "we don't talk about Bruno"

the thing is that you can't "heal your family" not alone anyways, everybody has to work together and it's difficult

I hate how great this movie my "friends" just love the fact that this is my(a Latino) favorite movie

it's been just like..two days since i've found your channel? and I absolutely love your videos, thank you guys for them! it's not only about the reactions, but you make me look at these stories as if I'm watching them for the very first time... I can see them from a different angle. and Alan, thank you that I'm not alone in crying over sad or touching scene here, really c:

I was very lucky to know my great grandmother and she played a massive role in my life. Coco reminds me so much of my great grandmother that it's impossible for me to watch the movie without crying

So is there a Germany side to Land of the Dead?

Um...Price's Atlas of Ethnographic Societies records more than 3814 distinct cultures as having been described by anthropologist. Almost certainly an underestimate. So Pixar could be busy producing brilliant, emotionally rich, diverse films bringing different cultures to the screen for a couple of millenia and not run out. I think it would be great! The Cinema Therapy Pixar project!

This movie was amazing. It made me ugly cry.

Sorry I have seen most of your videos but I forget to like and comment but your videos are such good and I get to know so much and I just love your videos keep going out doing a great job !❤️

Oh, Coco. One of the few films that legitimately made me cry.

I thought it was so sweet how Coco gave up her last secret - her memorabilia of her father to Miguel. It was something that she probably didn't share with anyone in her family because she was scared they'd tell her that her father never loved her - the same thing her mother always told her and something she maybe started to believe herself. However, here was Miguel telling her, "Your Papa loved you!" without any doubt. I feel like this is what convinced her to share her memories of her father - because she trusted that her father's love wouldn't be dismissed or ignored.

Most people credit pixar, and although they had their part in it, the magic behind this movie has nothing to do with disney or pixar. Its all thanks to the beauty and power of the mexican culture.

Nobody should forget, overlook or ignore the racist history behind disney. Especially not Mexicans. Disney tried to appropriate the day of the dead. It was only after the protests and the outrage of the Mexicans and chicanos that they decided to include Mexican storytellers, songwriters, musicians and voice actors that this movie became what it is.

Their only agenda and goal was to profit off the cultural patrimony of the mexican people and yet they had the effrontery and nerve to market it as a "love letter" to the mexican culture. How much of the millions of dollars they made profiting of the Mexican peoples patrimony went to help the most poor marginalized and excluded in mexico?

I think that due to the racist colonial history of the euro-american supremacists they should not have the right or privilege of telling our stories or even touching anything that has to do with our peoples history, culture, or identity because there will always be ignorance, racism and an ulterior agenda behind it in some way or another
disney👎

The scene that got me in this movie was when Hector finally crossed the bridge and he chokes on a sob of joy. Something about his expression had so many layers and everything he had gone through at that point in the film makes you feel the intense emotional catharsis Hector is experiencing in that moment, even middleschool me was driven to experience empathy for the first time in my life

you can even see coco's love and hope for her dad at the start of the film because she asks if her dad came back

The reason Coco is so good is it's made by people of the culture. There's so much love in it.

my fear stayed even up until know Im already 39 Im still struggling. I havent even moved on because I dont know how.

I was holding a stoic face through the whole movie, even passed the "Remember Me" checkpoint, but when it got to Hector finally passing the bridge at the end, I just started crying with hiccups because it instantly made me remember my grandfather who passed away and sacrificed himself for the better of my family. The thought of my grandfather and Hector not believing he was stepping on the bridge without falling was too much emotion bottled up in me... I couldn't hold it anymore. For me, due to the values it shows and the impact, this is the best Pixar movie they ever did. It was beautiful.

God this movie hit me HARD when I first watched it. I'm part of the first generation in my Mexican family that has lived in the US for most of their lives and every aspect of it is hard especially if you're somewhere with few Mexicans like where I am. You try hard to remember your traditions, your language, your family abroad, but it all fades and you feel something there that's missing when it does. Mexicans put such a strong emphasis on remembering our ancestors and on tradition (to the point where I know of my great-great-great grandparents), that it's tragic when something breaks that line. This movie was very healing for me.

I like how his red jacket has lines on it to forecast him becoming a skeleton

When you talked about breaking the multigenerational cycle, and how Alan isn't accepted for the career choice he made, that hit me very strongly. I grew up as the third eldest in a family of 6 kids, where my father was an alcoholic domestic abuser. At age four when the youngest was 6 months old, we got put in care and separated, and when we were teenagers we all went back to our mother. She was so emotionally broken by what had been done to her that the neglect was staggering. Cigarettes instead of more food etc, i remember working in a deli making sandwhiches at 15 to pay for things I needed for school. What we saw changed all of us in different ways. My eldest sister became a mother figure, and controlling as hell, my brothers checked out and spiraled into depression, and I tried to live at school where my books became my refuge. We are all parents now, and it took us years to heal from that. I vowed to myself two things; One, I would never accept a partner in my life that didn't respect me, and two; i would never live in the same conditions of living for each government payout while my kids were left wanting in the meantime. We all grew up, and I became a chartered accountant, and my mother doesnt understand or know anything about me as a person. To her, I'm a walking wallet, and every chance I give her to connect, I end up disappointed and hurt. I sad that Alan isn't able to connect, but I agree with Johnathan, breaking that cycle diliberately, and establishing something new was the only way I was able to save myself, and protect my daughter. I'm sad, but I have no regrets.

This episode made me miss my daughter that I don’t get to see due to bad breakup. 😢

I can say that some not all mariachi members did abandon their families it's not the norm but it does happen

Moment of appreciation for the person who wrote the subtitles for this. Firstly for spelling out the excited exclamation noises, and secondly for the dual sign off at the end being from “Internet papas”

It’s amazing how much detail they incorporated in this movie that was completely accurate. People with dementia really can remember better with music. It is one of the last things that leaves their memories. Some people with dementia can play instruments but can’t even remember who their family is. This is just so beautiful that they included this in a child’s film.

I only get sad when you guys are in the corner

as a singer myself.. the power of music is beyond comprehension.. those videos of people who have dementia who only remember their favourite music.. or light up and come alive when music is played..music is magical.. the ending scene always hits me so so hard.