Bao

September 24.2022

Today I come to talk about a Pixar short, which I really liked.

Bao is a Pixar fiction short, directed by the same director of Turning Red, Domee Shi, somewhat autobiographical, since she tells that her mother tells her that she would like to put her back inside her stomach to know where she is at all times despite being an adult person, somewhat adorable and at the same time creepy.

Winner of best animated short at the 2019 Oscars. It is based on the so-called empty nest syndrome, when sons decide to leave their parents' home.

It must be a really hard experience, because although our sons grow up they will always remain our sons. But sons are not our property, we prepare them for life, we guide them, but when the time comes they decide to take flight, and that is when we feel that emptiness, but we must think that we prepare them for that, for the moment of choosing their path, in the end we will not always be, and it is outside the nest where they will start their own life, and this happens naturally.

The lady in the short, suffers from empty nest syndrome, but becomes a mother for the second time, of a Bao when it magically comes to life.

The ending is a bit scary. It makes us reflect on the importance of preparing parents for the departure of their sons, we must accept it. We fear for the outside world, we want to spare them pain. But our parental love cannot become ties, nor stop the personal growth of our sons, our mission to educate never ends, but we have to let them walk their own path, stumble and get up, laugh, cry, fall in love and disappointment, that they mature, be capable and responsible, we must give them the strength to walk on their own feet without losing their way home.