Luca Analysis

Luca (2021)

Directed by: Enrico Casarosa
A PIXAR film. 
Streaming on Disney+Hotstar.

It's a sweet film about friendship, and acceptance. Even though the film is about these things, it's amazing how PIXAR manages to create a world which is always rich of love from the family and that's what makes it endearing. The premise in itself carries the theme of the film in a subtle way, discrimination, the feeling of being different from others because of something you can't control. A few sea monsters, assume human form as they come out of water, for us to empathize with them. It's also meta in a way because even for us to understand them, they have to become something that we can see and relate to, or else we'd not empathize with them, just like the people in the film.

The plans Luca and Alberto make, to buy a Vespa - I think that's the core of a friendship. To make plans for something you look forward to in life, and being on the pursuit of it. The pursuit for something is always more beautiful than what it actually is. The conversations they have about what they'd do after buying a Vespa. Luca wanting to go to school with the girl he meets, works in both ways, it works for what it is, and it also works for a guy falling in love with a girl and the conflict it would create between two close friends. Luca letting go of Alberto as a sea monster, is such a heartbreaking scene, and the final scene when Luca redeems himself is such a Rajamouli-esque scene. I had goosebumps while watching something after quite a while.