How Pixar made a cartoon for parents It's a great Pixar cartoon. Wonderful animation, coolly invented characters and pleasant humor, all this is in it, and I definitely recommend it to watch (as if you need my recommendation, this is Pixar), but I was hooked in it another.
At some point I realized that the cartoon in some significant parts is clearly focused on the audience of parents. We have the main character, Woody's toy, in which he's worried that his previous child, Andy, has grown up and gone to college, and he doesn't need toys anymore. He also overprotects his new child, Bonnie, for example, against the will of other toys, he climbs into her briefcase to follow her first day of school. In my understanding, this behavior is a consequence of the trauma of breaking up with Andy, and Woody is trying to deal with it by taking care of Bonnie.
I think you see where I'm going. Woody's image is a metaphor for parents who spend their lives building around a child and then don't know what to do when he grows up. Toys throughout the film, literally, use the expression “my child”.
And in the finale, Woody realizes that his child will cope without him and chooses his life and his happiness. Pixar tells us that a parent should care not only about their child and their well-being, but also about themselves. And it doesn't look like the child doesn't need help at all. There are moments when a child really needs help and, fortunately, gets it. Rather, it is about finding harmony and the ability to let go in time.
I was very impressed with this conversation with adults. Of course, Pixar has always made their cartoons interesting for different ages. There's the same puzzle that's obviously for teenagers and their parents. But it came as a surprise to me. It’s also amazing that I’ve told the story of only one (albeit the main) character in Toy Story 4. There are many of them and most of them have their own story. Pixar, of course, geniuses, thank you for these cartoons.
8 out of 10
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