I love animated movies, sharing it with my daughter is the most special thing because in those moments it makes you remember when you were a girl I used to sleep together with your father's regrets, now I do it with my daughter. Before she took her nap today, after her lunch we saw a movie in Neflitx, which is titled Over the Moon. This time we do not transfer to Chinese culture through a girl named Fei Fei in the magic touch of fantasy and fun.
Synthesis
This story begins with a family made up of (Ba Ba) papa, (Ma Ma) mama and a girl (Fei Fei), where her mother tells her a beautiful story about the phase of the moon when the dog eats the moon, it is one of the dogs of the Goddess Chang'e, who tells the legend of that great love, how her beloved Houyi manages to defeat the ten suns and obtain the seeds of immortality, to live an eternal love with Chang'e, but a thief entered to steal the seed Chang'e entered it in his mouth to protect it, it was raised to the moon, from that day Houyi began making moon cake offerings for his beloved until the day he died.
Fei fei is growing and her parents admit her to learn how to make moon bread, but she begins to get sick until she dies, leaving her father and daughter alone. After a while her father begins a romance, to which Fei fei does not accept because for her a love is eternal, as her mother told her of the Goddess Chang'e, from there a great adventure begins, thanks to her great intelligence of The girl to invent to reach the moon, so that her father realizes that what her mother told her was real, she should not marry or love another person.
Details
This is an animated film made on the computer, entitled Over the Moon, released on October 17, 2020 directed by Glen Keane produced by Pearl Studio and Netflix Animation, and animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. This is the first film directed by Keane, who serves as an animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios, starring the voices of Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, and Sandra Oh.
This gives us a beautiful story of a girl who, clinging to the pain of her mother's death, decides to take a trip to the moon to meet Goddess Chang'e in her we can see beautiful graphics, comedy, adventure and music. Apart from how Chinese culture and traditions go from generation to generation to keep love alive. In two musical themes we can detail this part: In the first Mooncakes she expresses the tradition of making the moon cake, where the important ingredient is love. The second is that of the Rocket to the Moon, as the girl clings to creating a rocket to reach the moon so that her father does not erase her mother from her memory.
Duration
100 minutes
Central theme
It is the story of the Chinese mythology of Goddess Chang'e and the lunar festival that through the girl Fei Fei and mother Ma Ma we can observe in a short and modern way. In how its traditions pass from family to family.
Fundamental message
This beautiful feature film leaves us with a great lesson that many of us have gone through when losing a loved one:
"Overcoming the death of a loved one does not mean that it will be erased from our memory"
"A new person or love that comes to life will not supplant anyone, it will only help happiness flourish without finding resentment"
"That person is not with us, her spirit will always be"
This is a film directed for children and adults who can enjoy together the great adventures that little Fei fei brings us.
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