{"id":7829,"date":"2018-06-16T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2020-03-21T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T16:11:01","slug":"bao-disturbing-short-in-front-of-the-incredibles-2-you-may-want-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/16\/bao-disturbing-short-in-front-of-the-incredibles-2-you-may-want-to-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"BAO – DISTURBING SHORT IN FRONT OF THE INCREDIBLES 2 YOU MAY WANT TO MISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AUDIO PODCAST OPTION OF BAO<\/em> REVIEW<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2020_03_20_20_24_401.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

There is a strange little short at the beginning of The Incredibles 2<\/em> called Bao<\/em> \"\"<\/a>(meat or vegetable filled dumpling) about a dumpling which comes to life for\u00a0a lonely woman, \"\"<\/a>so is spared from being eaten, until it grows to an age where he wants to leave home and marry, at which point the mom EATS the dumpling! The movie has nothing to do with The Incredibles 2<\/em> plot, except perhaps as a counterpoint\u00a0DYSFUNCTIONAL family dynamic, making the strong family of Incredibles look even better. This is some fairly disturbing imagery, softened very little by the revelation that the “dumpling” is merely a reflection of her real life son, an only child, who left his parents to marry. While there is reconciliation with said son in the end, brought about by\u00a0his understanding father, and acceptance of the non-Asian wife as she learns dumpling making from her mother-in-law, I could not get the unsettling imagery out of my head\u00a0of the mother willingly eating her child rather than allow him to mature and leave home. This is a short you may want to either get in late enough to avoid or prepare to discuss with your kids later.<\/p>\n

For anyone interested in what Domee Shi, the young lady writer-director of Bao has to say about her film, please click : Bao Director Interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  AUDIO PODCAST OPTION OF BAO REVIEW There is a strange little short at the beginning of The Incredibles 2 called Bao (meat or vegetable filled dumpling) about a dumpling which comes to life for\u00a0a lonely woman, so is spared from being eaten, until it grows to an age where he wants to leave home … Continue reading BAO – DISTURBING SHORT IN FRONT OF THE INCREDIBLES 2 YOU MAY WANT TO MISS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1232,1702,639,1698,1097,314,1699,301,8,7,1701,309,90,243,1703,4161,2718,1700,9,1256,1704,91,1798],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animated","tag-asian","tag-audio","tag-bao","tag-children","tag-disturbing","tag-dumpling","tag-dysfunctional","tag-home-school","tag-homeschool","tag-incredibles-2","tag-mother","tag-movie","tag-movie-review","tag-only-child","tag-phone","tag-podcast","tag-possessive","tag-review","tag-short","tag-son","tag-spoiler","tag-warning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mhKV-22h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16761,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/16761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}