Coco.

When you see a child who struggles to achieve his dream, and that dream is music, you do nothing but get excited from the first moment with this story. Do not underestimate the power of music (lapidary phrase of Star Wars, granting from the first moment to music a kind of energy). We have enjoyed the film Coco, listening to traditional Mexican music, Latin-jazz, mariachi groups, the marimba with the magic petals of the flower of the dead, the voice, the trumpet and above all the guitar, mariachi instrument and base of Mexican folklore, marked with constant blows of humor.

Frida Kalho could not miss, shedding color and creativity. The Mexican traditions about the cult of the dead (centered on the Day of the Dead) are the basis of the film, and on them rest the rest: family altars, offerings, candles, photographs (essential), mausoleums, fireworks, makeup and decoration of skeletons, the flower of the dead (cempásuchil), the alebrijes (fantastic figures of decorated cardboard, treated as spiritual guides), and the dog xoloitzcuintle, adorning the landscape.

It is an endearing fantasy about the family and the memory of the deceased loved ones. Our memory can only be transmitted among the living: thus a world arises parallel to the land of the living: the Land of the dead, and even a world within that world: the Land of the "Almost Forgotten" where the misfortune of the final death, that is, complete oblivion. If there is no one alive who remembers you in the world of the living, you disappear. The dead die definitively if they are forgotten.

The songs are wonderful: Remember me, A little crazy, Juanita, the beat of my heart, La Bikina, the World is my Family, La Llorona. In addition, the movie has a number of memorable phrases that make you think:

On the value of the family:

• Our memory can only be transmitted among the living.

• I am happy to be from your family!

• In this world, memories move everything.

• Family is first!

• Nothing is more important than the family.

Or about taking advantage of time and using your own talent:

• It's up to me to get that dream, capture it and see it come true.

• Life is a moment, you can not let it go.

• Music is the only thing that makes me happy and you want to take that away from me!

• Live your moment.

• We are artists, the world is our family.

It is, in short, a song to the family union in these times in which the family is being so mistreated. We sadly observe abandoned old people in residences (or worse, in the street), people willing to sacrifice their family for fame or money, lack of parental authority at home ... And when the family lives so much loss of prestige, appears the movie "Coco."

In the story, the tombstone of the text of the monument to Ernesto de la Cruz says: Know how to seize the opportunity. Then, after the development of the story, they will change it for: We forget you!, paraphrasing the beautiful song Remember me, but turning it around. Humor until the end. We do not forget you, Coco.

Francisco Amós Tomás Pastor