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Continuing the thorough analysis of the deep-angled lens of Disney movies, there is one phrase that has drawn the attention of the public as becoming the top focus of the public opinion. “Family Comes First” is what centred the American movie Coco with its one of the most controversial themes: the struggle between achieving one’s dreams & confronting the strict rules of family. The movie represents Miguel filled with passion, if not called “obsession” with music in the face of the harsh rules of his family to ban it due to the painful history they share with the great-great grandfather “Hector”. Family Tradition has been always the holy pattern that people follow through generations. This hasn’t only appeared on the American stream line, but in mostly all cultures. Amitabh Bachchan was the example for strict rules & hatred of change in the Indian movie Mohabbatein. The music which was brought by Shah Rukh Khan got the better of him & represented the destruct of his own world fixated with agonising rules & lifeless tradition. His painful experience with music has built the ice wall between his heart & mind. I mean, who is courageous enough to show what the heart really contains & admits the pain inside? On another scale, Mulan stands as the curse of the traditional Chinese expectations which set that daughters must bring honor by marrying well. And who could forget The Little Mermaid who has also suffered from constantly being told not to ever go up on the surface & have any contact with human beings. Tracing each of these cultures, one could find that each pattern of them shares a painful story on the backstage, mostly a loss of some beloved one is what led them to draw these killing lines for fitting in their societies. How could one prove they’re wrong and at the same time own his family’s respect? The answer relies in LOVE. Throughout my life, I could find no more powerful weapon than love when it leaks into the harshest & even toughest minds. Once love interferes & unlock hearts, it definitely releases the beauty hidden inside for some reason. After all, Geode “The famous rock” gains definitely no attraction to its surface; rather, only to its inside beauty. Such a rock, when broken open, it reveals beautiful crystals inside, such as quartz, amethyst, or agate. Miguel, the hero of Coco, has proven to be a great success at using love as a tool to decode hearts. His love towards music or the love he carries for his family has led eventually to refresh the memory of his old grandmother, restoring all the precious memories with her dad. Remember me is the song that gave birth to the miracle of the movie: Restoring the grandma’s memory. Designed with so much love & emotions, this song was the representation that love could rule in a world of prisoning frames. He never gave up on his family, even when their restrictions were like a stranglehold around his neck. He combined his love to music beside love to family and then came up with the cure. The cure to stop fear. “Family comes first” is absolutely undoubtable belief, but that never meant your dreams should come SECOND!