I like how despite how much the son disliked being coddled growing up, he didn’t hold any grudge for it as an adult and seemed even grateful that his mom cared so much. Something I’m sure a lot of us felt towards our parents when we grow up
I interpreted the "eating" thing as saying one of those horrible things you say when you’re angry and didn’t even mean, but you can never quite take back. And the mother and son don’t take it back, and that’s good. They move with it. Grow from it. They don’t hate each other forever, they both see they have work to do, but they clearly care about each other. And that’s nice.
I thought it represented the ultimate selfish act a parent can do to a child, or really any person can do to another: if I can't have you then no one else can. The mother eating him was showing how she'd strip away his choices and agency in an attempt to keep him all to herself.
I’ve seen this short before and, while I appreciated it, I didn’t have any kind of emotional connection to it. Only now coming across this video and watching the short again, I nearly cried at the end. I’m having issues with my father, who I have been quite close to my entire life. My situation is almost completely different from the one depicted in the short, but the cause of it is still very similar to what caused my situation. My father is very overbearing and has very high expectations of me because he cares about me; But, kind of thanks to how/when he grew up, he doesn’t understand how a lot of my mental health struggles and neurodivergence works. That, plus his propensity to assume things are personal attacks against him and to refuse to accept when he is wrong, is breaking our relationship very quickly. It really only just happened last week and the day our fight happened he threatened to kick me out. And as much as I care about him, I have too much respect for myself to stick around when he does that. He is actively pushing me away, and I think the ending of Bao really got to me because of that. Though I do feel bad for the son in Bao- It’s not his responsibility to fix that relationship. His mom ruined it then continued to be upset when time had passed and he was trying to rekindle the relationship- then HE had to start the process of fixing it instead of her ever apologizing for her behavior, as if it was his fault that SHE pushed HIM away.
If I had a nickel for everytime Disney made a film/short with Chinese people living in Canada I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice
I remember seeing this short in theaters. My dad isn’t one to cry, but he actually was crying when the short finished. One of the very few times I ever saw him cry.
On a first watch theres almost a dark humor element when it gets to that scene. But the ending clears things up, maybe too little too late for some veiwers.
Domee Shi really knocked it out of the park with this. A lot of critics rip into the art style and content of Turning Red but man, I think her direction and the way she grounds relationships into feeling very realistic is incredibly compelling
“Critics” are those white men and women so it’s worthless, if a grandma who hardly watches movies approves, it’s rightfully a masterpiece, and def both of these gained their title as the best in the eyes of my grandma, so this is funny
I recall really enjoying this short in theaters and understanding its theme, but I was shocked by just how many people disliked it online - finding the premise too weird or foreign for their tastes. Domee Shi can’t seem to catch a break with audiences despite the critical praise, with “Turning Red” receiving a similar reaction for its themes and subject matter.
I mean I like the short’s animation, but it is pretty weird. Not saying it’s bad, just not my cup of tea. I didn’t like Turning Red but I’m also not the target audience for that movie. I really do like the animation for both of the films though.
@@professormadhattgaming583 Thats the thing, i think a lot of people have been saying both are bad, but basing that off of opinion of the story at face value rather than there being anything wrong with the animation/symbology or otherwise. Ive not seen either in entirety so i dont have a strong opinion besides thinking most of the bad reviews are based on cultural differences and not liking the way things were symbolized (especially for turning red, them reviews be harsh)
@@pugglebiscuit9600 same can be said for ‘Everything Everywhere all at Once’. The reviews are so divided, either they liked it or not, and it’s clearly about the cultural difference. I was the target audience, same with Joy I’m Asian, queer and an immigrant, really hits close to home and suffice to say its one of my favourite movies. I also loved Turning Red, these movies just hit so close to home
I remember seeing this on TH-cam before the Incredibles 2 movie came out and I loved it so much. And it was before I even started learning about Chinese culture. There is just so much emotion in a little eight minute short
this is my most favourite pixar short ever. i love how you pointed out so many things as small as camera angles that i didn't notice until you pointed them out and explained. bao really connected with me as someone who's mom would always bring me food as a way to connect with me when we were at a disagreement. thanks for talking about bao! :)
Coming from a Chinese family, this short really hit young and modern me hard. Such a beautiful work deserved the praise it got. It grows even more beautiful once you start analyzing the metaphors that this short is built off of.
Looking at the dynamic of the short as a whole, you can see things easily from both the mother and son's perspectives. The mother doesn't want to lose her son, especially if he never writes, calls or visits again and saying goodbye, as a whole, is very heart wrenching for everyone. On the other hand, if you love someone, you often have to let them go and live their life the way they need to live it; this is more so true as, at the end, we see that her son hasn't forgotten his family after all.
I feel like another reason the bao boy was a dumpling the whole time and small was because moms see the children as “their babies” even after they grow up and so even after he’s an adult and engaged he’s viewed by her as still just her baby so he’s represented as still small
I always assumed Bao Boy and the Human Boy were the same person, that the switch was meant to be when she finally shocked herself into reality, not her recreating all the events with this new Bao Boy
Piper is my favorite short ever. I love to come back and watch the cute little birds learn a life lesson Bao also made me cry when i watched it, even the 3rd time
I see it as everything about the Bao being a dream, and her waking up in her bed is when the dream ends. A few things point to this: - The fact that this is happening at all. - The fact that her husband isn't in the story at all between the beginning and when she wakes up. - The fact that her actual son looks so similar to a Bao bun, that she actually mistakes him for it at first. Now, that's not to say that everything that happened in the story was meaningless. Rather, I see it as her dealing with her son leaving through the lens of her other love of food. The dream is symbolic, as dreams sometimes are.
Stories in general are symbolic, and whether this is a dream or a metaphorical representation of her relationship with her son doesn't really change anything about how it affects the watcher.
Not to mention that after she eats the Bao, the next scene has her in bed. The first time we see this, we assume it is because she has gone to bed to cry herself to sleep, Even though this isn't logically consistent with the previous scene. (While we can imagine his fiancee' might stay outside during the row, to let mother and son sort out their argument, it's hard to imagine her just... leaving.) But of course it was a dream.
18:45, which is very similar to another saying around babies, "Oh, you're so precious i could just eat you up!" It also needs to be said that the absent father wasn't always absent. It's him that pushes them together in the same room and he who closes the door. As well the father is not at all surprised that his daughter-in-law can perfectly make bao.
I remember seeing this short And when I was younger, I thought the old woman ate the little guy and then the little guy turned into an adult man I… was very young and very stupid
This Short now hits me differently now. My sister left me and my mother recently this month and instead of telling my mother she was leaving instead decided to leave a text explaining why she left.
This short still made me cry, even with narration. I’m almost 16 now and cold towards my parents. It almost makes me feel bad about myself. But it’s such a relatable and cool short. Really the ONLY short I remember because of how good it was when I saw it as a 10 (or so) year old.
I really have gotten softer, haven't I I saw Incredibles 2 in theaters, so I 100% would've seen this short. But I didn't even remember it. Meanwhile now just hearing someone talk about it has me in tears.
So your explanation of this short has actually hit me in a place I didn’t expect. I only saw this short once in theaters and just thought it was a sweet short. But as the years gone by there have been some realizations that I’ve discovered about my own father that has made me realize I can’t be in a healthy relationship with him as much as I wish I could. I wish I could have a Bao ending where coming back years later and offering some food would solve it. But sadly it won’t. Because he’s the type to never open up and so I’m stuck wishing for something that will never happen from a father who refuses to change.
5:00 Dazz, I outta save your life and correct you, as that is a rice cooker… It’s not common for Americans to use them, and this gets corrected as soon as possible when you hang out with an immigrant family. Thai step dad nearly put my 23 year old butt in time out just because he was disappointed I was cooking rice for dinner on the stove. Haven’t made stove top rice since that day lol
It’s kinda sad for relationships like this between moms and their growing kids. My oldest brother is 16 almost 17 and is still very affectionate with my mom
The Pixar shorts are really in a category of their own, and _Boa_ is no exception. It's my all-time favorite, and really does stand out and have more to say than the feature film it was paired with.
I'm not an immigrant Chinese but am a Chinese/Hongkonger whose parents and grandparents are Chinese that immigrated to a western country and know others with similar experience, so there are quite some points that I noticed that are either great jokes or representation of lives of immigrant Chinese, or I'm just taking this waaay too seriously. No one's probably gonna read this but this 3am motivation is hitting hard to here I am. 1) The word "bao" in Chinese is literally a bun. Traditionally, people make homemade buns, which is a long and patient process, so much so that a bun may sometimes be a funny way to refer to one's child, and thus making/cooking a bun could also refer to being pregnant. Personally I think the fact that babies are white and fat with smooth skin like a perfectly cooked bun also plays a role here. 2) Asian, or at least Chinese parents are very controlling over their children's lives. In a Chinese household, parents have extreme power over the kids, largely due to traditional values. They often have extreme expectation and control on their children, and the fact that they believe in extreme strict parenting only makes this worse. They love their children, so they want their children to do only what they think is right, and will easily become furious when their children have a mind of their own basically. A typical example is the stereotypical "Asians hate their children pursing a career related to art". This is because Chinese traditionally view art as nothing more than bragging rights and entertainment, pursuing a career in this field either gives you a hard life (which is kinda true since an art related career isn't the easiest career path) or a bad reputation. They don't want to see their children suffer, so they disagree, even if it means ripping away the children's freedom of choice or destroying the relationship between them. They sometimes regret it, but due to their position as parents and their pride, they usually can't bring themselves to apologizing or actively trying to mend the relationship. "My kid is mind, they are inferior, they should be the one to try to improve the situation" basically. Notice in the short, the dad, basically an outsider to the conflict, is the one to push the mom and son's resolving, the mom's reaction to seeing her son is to show rage and refuse communication, and it is the son who actively goes to visit his parents and hands out food as a way of showing that he wants the problem resolved, not the other way around. 3) As you may have guessed, Asians are very conservative. Referencing my family's history, Chinese have a very strong sense of belonging to their homeland, especially the older generations back then, so the reasons behind immigrating to western countries were usually to seek a better future for their family and children. It could be fleeing from wars or disasters, or just to find better opportunities overseas. This forcing to leave their homeland already gave horrific mental stress, coupled with unfamiliar places, faces and language, they tend to hold onto what familiarity they have left, thus parents may be even more controlling over their kids, especially when their kids slowly grow to accept more western values and become more like a westerner. This is partially why many, not all, but many Chinese parents are against their children having partners of other races. I can only assume the son's wife in the short is a westerner, coupled with her expressions in the dream, I could almost imagine that the mom perceive her son's relationship to be "the wicked western hussy is blinding and kidnapping my precious innocent son with her toxic western luxury and vanity". Personally, I feel like the mom may not act as violently if the wife was a Chinese as well.
There’s also a small detail with the blonde girl when we first see her she’s wearing crazy clothing but the second time we see her she’s wearing more sensible clothing
@@Joy-zz8wz Yeah but the color palette is changed from black and red, a more agressive color palette, to a purple and blue color palette, which are more calming to look at.
This short was BEAUTIFUL and honestly made me cry when I first saw it years ago. I had NO IDEA it was made by the same director of _Turning Red,_ (which I was NOT a fan of, btw.) I can see similarities in the "overbearing" mother figure who refuses to let go, except that in this case, I feel that _this_ mother felt more overprotective due to actual love and care, whereas the mother in _Turning Red_ just wanted to control by any means necessary.
I know that this short is about a mother and son of a distinct culture forging ahead between tradition and modernism, but I love the characterization of the dad. In Turning Red, too. They both have this quiet, caring, loving, supportive nature that you rarely seen played straight as part of a dynamic, rather than the more typical punchline of "Strong feminine personality and their weak male counterpart." It's okay if you're a male and a quiet type, as long as you're there for your family for however long you choose to be there for.
I remember going to the cinema to see Incredibles 2 and everyone (including me) gasped at the scene where the mom eats the Bao. The most genuine reaction in that place, not even the movie had that
This is why diversity is good, it makes for more interesting stories and gives more perspective and in an ideal world different experiences and perspectives can be combined to make even better stories But also diversity should be about equity which is sadly not always the case where bad story writers are employed just because "we need diversity" But this just shows how got it can be when done right
This short came out when it was my big brother's senior year of high school. Both of my older siblings didn't have a great relationship with my mom (for entirely different reasons), but this really hit home for me because my brother was going to be leaving for college in what felt like no time at all. The whole of the last three minutes or so made me sob really hard. In all honesty I cry every single time I see this short. It holds a very special place in my heart.
For me this is special and kind of make’s me cry because I feel like my mom doesn’t give me enough attention I’m not saying that she’s a bad mom I’m just saying that she was giving me more love and attention when I was smaller
I like how despite how much the son disliked being coddled growing up, he didn’t hold any grudge for it as an adult and seemed even grateful that his mom cared so much. Something I’m sure a lot of us felt towards our parents when we grow up
Indeed, which is all the more reason how one can see things through both the son and the mother's eyes easily.
hey was that the colress theme from POKEMON?
I'm not crying. you're crying!
I interpreted the "eating" thing as saying one of those horrible things you say when you’re angry and didn’t even mean, but you can never quite take back. And the mother and son don’t take it back, and that’s good. They move with it. Grow from it. They don’t hate each other forever, they both see they have work to do, but they clearly care about each other. And that’s nice.
there's definitely a Chinese proverb about "swallowing [a person's] head" meaning saying something you can't ever take back
@@kasagure. woah, seriously? Rad! I didn’t know that!
@@kasagure. oh i never knew. this short really makes you *Feel* that proverb tho
I thought it represented the ultimate selfish act a parent can do to a child, or really any person can do to another: if I can't have you then no one else can. The mother eating him was showing how she'd strip away his choices and agency in an attempt to keep him all to herself.
@riversgrace Truly a hallmark of good writing. Having so much meaning in one little action.
Teachers use these shorts to summarize it all up like what’s happening breaking the story down and how the characters act
This short film hit me in the feels. I remember watching this for the first time and it was a mix of emotions.
I would have eaten it smiling titan style 6:38
Liked
3:35screw you (*undoughes your dough*)
Seeing this short in the theaters is a core memory because I genuinely love this short
I didn’t mind Incredibles 2. But this short stood out to me more than the actual movie for the most part.
Same. Me and my mum cried in the theatre when we watched it together lol.
@@MrMelonsz I’m speechless.
Incredibles 2 was not the best Pixar Sequel, but Bao made the trip to the theater worth every penny. 🥟 ❤
Same, I almost cried while watching bao.
Yo as a 8 year old when I saw this the short scarred the SHIT out of me I WAS HAVING FUCKING HEART PALPITATIONS WHEN SHE ATE HIM
Bro this legit made me cry when I watched it for the first time-
I’ve seen this short before and, while I appreciated it, I didn’t have any kind of emotional connection to it. Only now coming across this video and watching the short again, I nearly cried at the end.
I’m having issues with my father, who I have been quite close to my entire life. My situation is almost completely different from the one depicted in the short, but the cause of it is still very similar to what caused my situation. My father is very overbearing and has very high expectations of me because he cares about me; But, kind of thanks to how/when he grew up, he doesn’t understand how a lot of my mental health struggles and neurodivergence works. That, plus his propensity to assume things are personal attacks against him and to refuse to accept when he is wrong, is breaking our relationship very quickly. It really only just happened last week and the day our fight happened he threatened to kick me out. And as much as I care about him, I have too much respect for myself to stick around when he does that. He is actively pushing me away, and I think the ending of Bao really got to me because of that.
Though I do feel bad for the son in Bao- It’s not his responsibility to fix that relationship. His mom ruined it then continued to be upset when time had passed and he was trying to rekindle the relationship- then HE had to start the process of fixing it instead of her ever apologizing for her behavior, as if it was his fault that SHE pushed HIM away.
Fun Fact: The girlfriend looks different after the human boy is revealed, implying that the mother has exaggerated the events.
Gods that’s a nice catch
Ayo we got like a Greek demigod over here. Minotaur???
It's like the mother saw the son's new partner as a tramp, but in reality she's down to earth, and also a quick learner, not to mention pleasant
@@THAT1ZELDAFAN I'm glad you pointed this out. I was just about to point this out.
I just assumed it was a different woman
If I had a nickel for everytime Disney made a film/short with Chinese people living in Canada I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice
I remember seeing this short in theaters. My dad isn’t one to cry, but he actually was crying when the short finished. One of the very few times I ever saw him cry.
On a first watch theres almost a dark humor element when it gets to that scene. But the ending clears things up, maybe too little too late for some veiwers.
1:28 digest
digest indeed
I like how everyone praised this short more than the following movie after it
Not surprised
Lol
Wait what movie
@@I.do.edits- I think that’s case and point
@@I.do.edits- Incredibles 2
Boy thats a rice cooker not a slow cooker.
Domee Shi really knocked it out of the park with this. A lot of critics rip into the art style and content of Turning Red but man, I think her direction and the way she grounds relationships into feeling very realistic is incredibly compelling
“Critics” are those white men and women so it’s worthless, if a grandma who hardly watches movies approves, it’s rightfully a masterpiece, and def both of these gained their title as the best in the eyes of my grandma, so this is funny
More so as its meaning hits harder as an adult.
I recall really enjoying this short in theaters and understanding its theme, but I was shocked by just how many people disliked it online - finding the premise too weird or foreign for their tastes. Domee Shi can’t seem to catch a break with audiences despite the critical praise, with “Turning Red” receiving a similar reaction for its themes and subject matter.
I mean I like the short’s animation, but it is pretty weird. Not saying it’s bad, just not my cup of tea. I didn’t like Turning Red but I’m also not the target audience for that movie. I really do like the animation for both of the films though.
@@professormadhattgaming583 Thats the thing, i think a lot of people have been saying both are bad, but basing that off of opinion of the story at face value rather than there being anything wrong with the animation/symbology or otherwise. Ive not seen either in entirety so i dont have a strong opinion besides thinking most of the bad reviews are based on cultural differences and not liking the way things were symbolized (especially for turning red, them reviews be harsh)
@@pugglebiscuit9600 same can be said for ‘Everything Everywhere all at Once’. The reviews are so divided, either they liked it or not, and it’s clearly about the cultural difference. I was the target audience, same with Joy I’m Asian, queer and an immigrant, really hits close to home and suffice to say its one of my favourite movies. I also loved Turning Red, these movies just hit so close to home
I remember seeing this on TH-cam before the Incredibles 2 movie came out and I loved it so much. And it was before I even started learning about Chinese culture. There is just so much emotion in a little eight minute short
@@professormadhattgaming583 as someone who was once a cringe ass 13 year old girl, I loved Turning Red
Love getting a Pixar short ad from TH-cam on this video
this is my most favourite pixar short ever. i love how you pointed out so many things as small as camera angles that i didn't notice until you pointed them out and explained. bao really connected with me as someone who's mom would always bring me food as a way to connect with me when we were at a disagreement. thanks for talking about bao! :)
Oh my gosh I love partly cloudy 😭
Coming from a Chinese family, this short really hit young and modern me hard. Such a beautiful work deserved the praise it got. It grows even more beautiful once you start analyzing the metaphors that this short is built off of.
Looking at the dynamic of the short as a whole, you can see things easily from both the mother and son's perspectives. The mother doesn't want to lose her son, especially if he never writes, calls or visits again and saying goodbye, as a whole, is very heart wrenching for everyone. On the other hand, if you love someone, you often have to let them go and live their life the way they need to live it; this is more so true as, at the end, we see that her son hasn't forgotten his family after all.
I feel like another reason the bao boy was a dumpling the whole time and small was because moms see the children as “their babies” even after they grow up and so even after he’s an adult and engaged he’s viewed by her as still just her baby so he’s represented as still small
Fun fact: the director of Bao later on made Turning Red.
I always assumed Bao Boy and the Human Boy were the same person, that the switch was meant to be when she finally shocked herself into reality, not her recreating all the events with this new Bao Boy
The actual short hit me good, but you diving into it, truely revealed its beauty. Thank you for another wonderful animation insight.
Piper is my favorite short ever. I love to come back and watch the cute little birds learn a life lesson
Bao also made me cry when i watched it, even the 3rd time
Bro I actually cried watching this
The man was away all the time, for years.
I dont know why but i cried after watching the full short movie,its amazing😢
4:42 IS THAT KING JHON UN???
LOVE the Zelda music in the backround
I see it as everything about the Bao being a dream, and her waking up in her bed is when the dream ends.
A few things point to this:
- The fact that this is happening at all.
- The fact that her husband isn't in the story at all between the beginning and when she wakes up.
- The fact that her actual son looks so similar to a Bao bun, that she actually mistakes him for it at first.
Now, that's not to say that everything that happened in the story was meaningless. Rather, I see it as her dealing with her son leaving through the lens of her other love of food. The dream is symbolic, as dreams sometimes are.
Stories in general are symbolic, and whether this is a dream or a metaphorical representation of her relationship with her son doesn't really change anything about how it affects the watcher.
@@undeniablySomeGuy Fair point.
Not to mention that after she eats the Bao, the next scene has her in bed. The first time we see this, we assume it is because she has gone to bed to cry herself to sleep, Even though this isn't logically consistent with the previous scene. (While we can imagine his fiancee' might stay outside during the row, to let mother and son sort out their argument, it's hard to imagine her just... leaving.) But of course it was a dream.
Your words are very wise and profound.
bao almost made me cry when i saw it in the theater
As someone who's a 1st generation Asian American, Bao hit really close to home for me
I feel it
Same. It still makes me so emotional years after I first saw it. I should give my mom a call tomorrow and catch up.
Just got a notification that someone liked my comment so I thought I'd give a small update that my mom is doing well ☺️
This is one of the few shorts that actually made me cry even after years of not seeing it and maturing, ts still hits
This short made me cry
The Bao short made me cry when I first saw it in theater.
18:45, which is very similar to another saying around babies, "Oh, you're so precious i could just eat you up!"
It also needs to be said that the absent father wasn't always absent. It's him that pushes them together in the same room and he who closes the door. As well the father is not at all surprised that his daughter-in-law can perfectly make bao.
He is present but in a very calm way.
I remember seeing this short
And when I was younger, I thought the old woman ate the little guy and then the little guy turned into an adult man
I… was very young and very stupid
When I was young, I thought the woman was a man
This Short now hits me differently now. My sister left me and my mother recently this month and instead of telling my mother she was leaving instead decided to leave a text explaining why she left.
22:33 NEROUN ACTIVATION
I think the girlfriend being able to make buns perfectly could also be a representation of them having kids
Is his mini beard mold
This short still made me cry, even with narration. I’m almost 16 now and cold towards my parents. It almost makes me feel bad about myself. But it’s such a relatable and cool short. Really the ONLY short I remember because of how good it was when I saw it as a 10 (or so) year old.
Woah you get shorts?? Those got replaced by ads instead in my town
I watched Pilar for the first time in around 2016, changed my life
I really have gotten softer, haven't I
I saw Incredibles 2 in theaters, so I 100% would've seen this short. But I didn't even remember it.
Meanwhile now just hearing someone talk about it has me in tears.
I seen this really good Pixar short called Kitbull
It is so sad but so good
*I- have no words.*
8:39 YOU THOUGHT I WOULDN'T NOTICE THE SIMCITY 2013 MUSIC DIDN'T YOU? IM A OG!
5:16 wait are they female? I thought they were male for years.
Update after a few seconds of looking harder: oh yeah, they are.
dude wtf, i had watch the short before, but yout narrative is truly amazing, even made me cry 10/10 keep it going
Lava was the first pixar short I ever saw, it's so good, it's genuenly a crime that it wasn't nominated.
Fr.
I agree
i used to cry to that short every time i saw it
My mom watches Lava every year. She adores it and has a tee shirt based on it.
I agree
I generally cried when she ate the dumpling
I loveeeed Bao but something about US again gets me in the feels every dang time
3:32 anybody think the start was a metaphor for accidental pregnancies?
Note: Bao itself can mean a lot of things:
包，報，寶，爆，保，飽⋯⋯
So your explanation of this short has actually hit me in a place I didn’t expect. I only saw this short once in theaters and just thought it was a sweet short. But as the years gone by there have been some realizations that I’ve discovered about my own father that has made me realize I can’t be in a healthy relationship with him as much as I wish I could.
I wish I could have a Bao ending where coming back years later and offering some food would solve it. But sadly it won’t. Because he’s the type to never open up and so I’m stuck wishing for something that will never happen from a father who refuses to change.
Honey I know that feeling. I think about my adoptive mom and wish it was this easy…
This short is easily much better than incredibles 2
i cried at that short
5:00 Dazz, I outta save your life and correct you, as that is a rice cooker… It’s not common for Americans to use them, and this gets corrected as soon as possible when you hang out with an immigrant family. Thai step dad nearly put my 23 year old butt in time out just because he was disappointed I was cooking rice for dinner on the stove. Haven’t made stove top rice since that day lol
i remember seeing this in theaters, almost cried over it
watching this again through this video and. i did cry. whoops.
It’s kinda sad for relationships like this between moms and their growing kids. My oldest brother is 16 almost 17 and is still very affectionate with my mom
The Pixar shorts are really in a category of their own, and _Boa_ is no exception. It's my all-time favorite, and really does stand out and have more to say than the feature film it was paired with.
Boa is also one of the films of all time. Truly one of the pieces in cinema.
Bao*
I'm just glad that it got so much praise because we ended getting up Turning Red!
I love boa so much, truly a spectacular pexar short!
Happy to see _Boa_ snake its way up to an Oscar. A ssssssspectacular short!
I watched that when I was like 5
loved this short when it came out
I'm not an immigrant Chinese but am a Chinese/Hongkonger whose parents and grandparents are Chinese that immigrated to a western country and know others with similar experience, so there are quite some points that I noticed that are either great jokes or representation of lives of immigrant Chinese, or I'm just taking this waaay too seriously. No one's probably gonna read this but this 3am motivation is hitting hard to here I am.
1) The word "bao" in Chinese is literally a bun. Traditionally, people make homemade buns, which is a long and patient process, so much so that a bun may sometimes be a funny way to refer to one's child, and thus making/cooking a bun could also refer to being pregnant. Personally I think the fact that babies are white and fat with smooth skin like a perfectly cooked bun also plays a role here.
2) Asian, or at least Chinese parents are very controlling over their children's lives. In a Chinese household, parents have extreme power over the kids, largely due to traditional values. They often have extreme expectation and control on their children, and the fact that they believe in extreme strict parenting only makes this worse. They love their children, so they want their children to do only what they think is right, and will easily become furious when their children have a mind of their own basically. A typical example is the stereotypical "Asians hate their children pursing a career related to art". This is because Chinese traditionally view art as nothing more than bragging rights and entertainment, pursuing a career in this field either gives you a hard life (which is kinda true since an art related career isn't the easiest career path) or a bad reputation. They don't want to see their children suffer, so they disagree, even if it means ripping away the children's freedom of choice or destroying the relationship between them. They sometimes regret it, but due to their position as parents and their pride, they usually can't bring themselves to apologizing or actively trying to mend the relationship. "My kid is mind, they are inferior, they should be the one to try to improve the situation" basically. Notice in the short, the dad, basically an outsider to the conflict, is the one to push the mom and son's resolving, the mom's reaction to seeing her son is to show rage and refuse communication, and it is the son who actively goes to visit his parents and hands out food as a way of showing that he wants the problem resolved, not the other way around.
3) As you may have guessed, Asians are very conservative. Referencing my family's history, Chinese have a very strong sense of belonging to their homeland, especially the older generations back then, so the reasons behind immigrating to western countries were usually to seek a better future for their family and children. It could be fleeing from wars or disasters, or just to find better opportunities overseas. This forcing to leave their homeland already gave horrific mental stress, coupled with unfamiliar places, faces and language, they tend to hold onto what familiarity they have left, thus parents may be even more controlling over their kids, especially when their kids slowly grow to accept more western values and become more like a westerner. This is partially why many, not all, but many Chinese parents are against their children having partners of other races. I can only assume the son's wife in the short is a westerner, coupled with her expressions in the dream, I could almost imagine that the mom perceive her son's relationship to be "the wicked western hussy is blinding and kidnapping my precious innocent son with her toxic western luxury and vanity". Personally, I feel like the mom may not act as violently if the wife was a Chinese as well.
I Remember watching incredibles 2 for the first time this came out
Can you review lackadaisy next?
Better title: making a perfectly fine short 3d as long
20:52 take what he's saying out of context
There’s also a small detail with the blonde girl when we first see her she’s wearing crazy clothing but the second time we see her she’s wearing more sensible clothing
Because tony learns from his mistakes ;)
It’s most likely because the look of the blonde girl before was an exaggeration by the mother.
She's just wearing normal clothing in the first time, I though?
@@Joy-zz8wz Yeah but the color palette is changed from black and red, a more agressive color palette, to a purple and blue color palette, which are more calming to look at.
This seems to note on the notion mentioned in one of the comments above, tying in with how parents often worry that their children won't marry wisely.
This short was BEAUTIFUL and honestly made me cry when I first saw it years ago. I had NO IDEA it was made by the same director of _Turning Red,_ (which I was NOT a fan of, btw.) I can see similarities in the "overbearing" mother figure who refuses to let go, except that in this case, I feel that _this_ mother felt more overprotective due to actual love and care, whereas the mother in _Turning Red_ just wanted to control by any means necessary.
I know that this short is about a mother and son of a distinct culture forging ahead between tradition and modernism, but I love the characterization of the dad. In Turning Red, too. They both have this quiet, caring, loving, supportive nature that you rarely seen played straight as part of a dynamic, rather than the more typical punchline of "Strong feminine personality and their weak male counterpart." It's okay if you're a male and a quiet type, as long as you're there for your family for however long you choose to be there for.
this could also be set in sydney with the center point (or westfield) tower.
I was 100% shocked when she ate him till I realized he was just a "stand in visualization" for her real son.
this short made me feel more emotional than the actual movie, glade to see it get the appreciation it deserves.
like the stuff that smells good?
I remember going to the cinema to see Incredibles 2 and everyone (including me) gasped at the scene where the mom eats the Bao. The most genuine reaction in that place, not even the movie had that
Same
kitbull is so good
I remember watching Bao in theaters, and after leaving the theater, I liked this short better than Incredibles 2
rip little white mashmellow
Bro a dumpling has more rizz than me 💀
This is why diversity is good, it makes for more interesting stories and gives more perspective and in an ideal world different experiences and perspectives can be combined to make even better stories
But also diversity should be about equity which is sadly not always the case where bad story writers are employed just because "we need diversity"
But this just shows how got it can be when done right
This short came out when it was my big brother's senior year of high school. Both of my older siblings didn't have a great relationship with my mom (for entirely different reasons), but this really hit home for me because my brother was going to be leaving for college in what felt like no time at all. The whole of the last three minutes or so made me sob really hard. In all honesty I cry every single time I see this short. It holds a very special place in my heart.
16:11 this is where men cry
What? How did this even win an award? It doesn’t even have a realistic depiction of a panic attack!
I remember whatching this when I was younger, I had trauma because of that and I even cried
Bao and La Luna are still my favorite Pixar Shorts. They’re both beautiful in every way…
For me this is special and kind of make’s me cry because I feel like my mom doesn’t give me enough attention I’m not saying that she’s a bad mom I’m just saying that she was giving me more love and attention when I was smaller
And I want to show this to my mom and friend because it’s a great movie but I don’t want to cry in front of them
6:39 who else would torture it by eating its legs first?
Boe traumatized me for some reason
It was a dream the first part was a dream
Somehow a piece of dough got a girlfriend while most of us are still single
My favorite short is the “I lava you😫”
dear god i get ptsd from this short