Director Domee Shi’s Turning Red will take you back to 2002
from director Domee Shi, may be Disney’s latest animated feature aimed at kids. But any adult over the age of 30 or so needs to understand that the movie is also a kind of one-way time machine back to the halcyon days of 2002 when burning CDs was the easiest way to share music with your best friends.
in its first few scenes is how refreshingly comfortable the movie is shifting between aesthetic modes for comedic effect. Thoughgenerally looks and feels like a bright and busy Pixar feature, the movie’s peppered with beats and gags more commonly found in two-dimensional anime and manga that all speak to Meilin’s own sensibilities as a budding artist.
Of the many challenges Meilin faces, her mother’s inability to recognize the things that fulfill her emotionally is the biggest, and what’s magical elements are important to its story, but they’re secondary to its focus on how stifling and oppressive a parent’s love for their child can become when it’s only expressed through control and a desire to shelter them from the outside world.
Main character though Meilin may be, Oh frequently luxuriates in the spotlight with a performance that will alarm anyone who’s ever wanted to vanish while watching their parents cause a scene in public. Chiang’s Meilin is very much your prototypical Pixar protagonist, but what makes her feel like such a breath of fresh air coming from the studio is the wayacknowledges and has fun with a number of the specific realities of being a hormonal teenager.
In the same way that turning into a humongous panda becomes Meilin’s own personal hell, the prospect of breathing the same air as 4*Town’s five members — Robaire , Aaron Z. , Aaron T. , Jesse , and Tae Young — is her and her friends’ idea of heaven. The movie’s handful of jokes about the girls’ obsession with boys work to remind you thatis a coming-of-age story about a young girl discovering what kind of person she’s growing up to become.
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