Up
Up (2009)
Director: Pete Docter
By now, we have everyone raving about it, so I shall just skip to the parts that really moved me, beside that 10 minute tear-jerking prelude, which I’d consider a major (animation) feat.
The hoisting of the rickety house by the 20,000 coloured balloons is a powerful surreal image (even in animation) that will remain fresh in our minds for years to come. It is at once the beginning of an adventure: a bold far-fetched imagination only feasible in the minds of children, a kind of other-world that is to be lost with coming-of-age and worldliness and an alternate universe irreconcilable with real life, rejection of conventions, grounded logic and norms.
It is also a timely reminder of the monsters that exist in our world, swallowing cultural heritage and memories of the past.
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