Pixar’s movie Coco is a welcome ode to Mexico in the Trump era
Coco, Pixar’s new movie about the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico, is full of the stereotypes Hollywood has been falling back on for decades to represent the US’s southern neighbor. There’s the usual deluge of color, festive music, and archetypes such as the flipflop-tossing matriarch—all rendered in the studio’s masterful animation. But unlike…