Seeing everyone has some confusion with the plot of the movie, I am writing the plot of the movie for those who couldn't understand it properly:) In Toronto, Canada, a Chinese-Canadian woman, whose husband is busy at work, makes a steamed bun that comes alive. She raises the steamed bun as a child, feeding it meals. Eventually the child wishes to play soccer with the other kids, despite his mother's protection. As her son ages into a teenager and a young adult, he increasingly wants independence, while his mother wishes for more attention from him, feeling ignored. When the steamed bun introduces his new fiancée and announces his intentions to move out of his mother's house, his mother protests. The mother tries to stop the steamed bun from leaving, but he pulls free. In a fit of anger, the mother eats the steamed bun, after which she cries over what she has done. Later, the mother lies in bed, and her real son enters the room, revealing that the whole sequence was an allegorical dream. The son, resembling the steamed bun, is told by his father to apologize to his mother, as she ignores him. He enters the room, offering the same treat the mother gave the steamed bun, and as they share it, they both cry. Afterwards, the whole family, including the son's fiancée, make steamed buns, as they sit at the table watching television.
Im guessing the mom is strict with the child(stereotypical asian parent) she cared about him, but maybe a bit too much, seeing what he was becoming in her view(a rebel) she probably punished him, and he ended up running away. Thats what probably happened, so of course she wasnt eating her own child; instead its probably an allegory for him running away because of his mother's strict nature
Many of you seem to be confused, her swallowing the dumpling was a representation of her having to swallow the hard truth that her son was growing up and moving onto his own journey.
Bao represents the “child” image of the real son through mama’s point of view. The moment the lady eats Bao shows that she cannot accept her son’s adulthood and kinda forces her will/opinion/caring on him. When he really shows up in the short, it feels like the lady finally comes to acceptance that her son is not a little kid anymore.
@@DSWDm technically not her mother missed her son alot and since his son looked like a steamed bao wich is technically my pfp but the steamed bao in my pfp is a pig but the mother thought the steamed bao was his own son and started raising it but as it got older it started going in the teenage phase where they start to become mature and denial soon the mother really didn't want his own son to grow into adulthood and ate the steamed bao realizing what she did she cried and cried when the father came back from work he saw the mother laying on bed crying herself to sleep after seeing his wife like that he called his son to apologize to her and later invited his fiancee to make steamed bao together
Ok, but the implication of this is really wholesome. The dumpling is a sort of a metaphor for how the mom saw her son. He was something small and fragile that she had to protect, even after her kid was well into his adulthood. So, the scene where she swallows the dumpling was not of her literally murdering her son-rather, it represented her realization that he was no longer her “little dumpling”, but a fully grown man now. In doing this, she was finally able to see her son as who he is, instead of just having this infantilizing mental image of him.
Perfectly said. I noticed some people like to take the scene where she ate him so literally. Calling her obsessive or selfish, but that's notttt the jist/point at all. I love this short film. It's so precious and wholesome, and the real message/meaning of it is even more precious and so relatable (for parents of course).
Bao looks a lot like my late uncle. Even dressed like him, too. I didn't think I would be crying about it, I haven't cried since it happened around 10 years ago. Thank you Disney, damn.
I’m literally about to cry. This film is so wholesome! The meaning of it is everyone has to grow up, and you can’t stop them from it. (At least that’s what I learnt) When she swallowed bao, that means she’s accepting that he’s growing up. A sign of respect for this short film!
This short reminds me so much of my sister and my brother-in-law. She and his mom didn’t get along at first because she was so protective of him (he is her baby/youngest), but now they get along so well. I realized recently too that her initials are B.A.O! 🥰 love this animation. Seriously makes me weep 😭.
Makes me cry everytime. Knowing first hand what mum's go through when their children grow up and leave the nest. Such a sweet little animation, if only I wouldn't get so emotional when I watch it.
Jesus, I didn’t know why my wife was crying. Told her to relax it’s just a cartoon. Snuck up into our room afterwards, and searched this. Now I understand
1. Exposition: at home there is a husband and wife who are making steamed buns. 2. Initial Incident: After cooking the steamed bread, the mother eats the bread with her husband, but when she is about to eat it she imagines the bread as if she is alive and becomes her child. 3. Rising Action: after the steamed buns were raised by the mother, the steamed buns wanted to be free and apart from the mother, she and her fiancee left her mother's house. 4. Climax: because she didn't want to lose the steamed bun which she considered a child, the mother finally ate the steamed bun, and regretted it later. 5. Falling action: when the mother fell asleep, it turned out that the real child went home and met his mother. 6. Resolution: the son finally came home with his fiancé and made peace with his mother, they finally cooked steamed buns together and lived happily 7. Denoument: they become that happy family
Woah! I can tell that you have been to story development classes..couze, I see a detailed plot structure..if that is what its called.. Anyways..thankyou for explaining the story..I mean it💜
I love this short so much, it reminds me so mich of my family! Particulalry the mother being my grandmother, using food as a means to connect with her grand/children. Like dumpling-boy, my Dad went and married a white girl (hence my existence). There's just so many similarities! Both the Dad in Bao and my Grandpa always sit on the chair closest to the window. My Dad also loves playing soccer like dumpling-boy. Truly, my heart goes out to the creators of Bao. I never thought I would find anything that reminds me this much of my family. Thanks so much!
For those who didn’t understand it: 90% of the short movie is an allegorical dream. Everything from 0:01 to 2:10 is not real. It’s a dream metaphor. The mother had a son years ago who grew up and left. So, feeling lonely, she dreams of raising a dumpling son who grows up and leaves. At 2:12, you even see her sleeping. From 2:12 onwards, everything is real. Her son revisits after many years, and they reconcile. Also: her eating her dumpling son could be symbolic of many things of what happened in real life. Maybe the mother disowning her child, hitting her child, or even maybe her harshly saying “I never want to see you again!” P.S. This isn’t the entire short! It’s edited and cut many times. It’s incomplete…I recommend searching for the full, complete version!
The first time I watched this, I didn't find it all that great but the more I watch it, the more I find it touching and beautiful. Thats something you rarely find in cinema.
My brother and my mom used to get into a lot of arguments growing up, when the two watched this together they both cried and hugged each other. Even through arguments and disagreements they still love each other.
I really appreciated that he felt sad without her too and he reached out to her. So often, these stories place the burden and responsibility entirely on the parent. Even if that's the case, it doesn't hurt to give the child sufficient nuance as a human being to love his mom, even as clingy and frightened as she is.
2:00 When you realize that most of this short is a dream and that the events in the dream all happened in real life and the mom eating the bao is a fictional and dream like representation of her slapping her child in the real world. Damn.🥺😢
OH THANK GOD I WAS SO FUCKING WEIRDED OUT BY ALL THAT😂 Me and my brother have been wondering what kind of fucked up shit that was since we watched Incredibles 2 at the theaters😂😂😂
That’s a good interesting way of seeing it! Slapping her son...so sad.... For me I thought: When she ate the dumpling, It’s symbolic for how in real life, she said goodbye angrily forever to her child and it was the “death of her child” in her eyes....she was angry and said permanently goodbye when he moved away and got married, and symbolically it felt like death for her. In this imaginary “my child is a dumpling fantasy” analogy world (which is what we visually see in the film), it was her eating the dumpling and never seeing him again
I loved this animation when I saw it in the cinema first. The animation shows beautifully how a mother, or any parent can struggle with loneliness when their child grows up. But in the end even how small it is, food unites us together and can show how we love each other
You actually fell for this crap? This might just be the single most demented way to tell a story about empty nest syndrome. WTF is wrong with Asian people!?!?!?
Anyone that grew up in Asia or have Asian immigrant parents will understand everything in the movie so well! Never forget who you are and where you come from.
I literally saw this at the cinema before the movie started last year, didn't expect to see it again. But I'm glad I did, I would've forgotten about this amazing animation.
This hurts. I'm an adult trying to develop independence and leave home, but my mother only sees me as her little baby. When my boyfriend and I started talking about getting a house together, she tried to discourage him and sabotage our relationship. I can't get her to acknowledge me as anything other than a small child. She wont even treat me like an immature adult. Literally reminds me to wear a coat when it's cold out, points at food that's in front of me at the table, picks lint off clothes I'm wearing, etc. I'm looking for a job now, and I'm keeping it a secret from her because I'm afraid of how she'll react. She eats me every day. If I were a bun, she'd definitely eat me rather than let me move on to an adult role away from her with a person I love who isn't her. She can't conceptualize me as existing in any other role than her cute little stupid helpless baby meat bun.
@@sheliawilliams4353 She loves her vision of me as a little girl. But I'll be moving away with my boyfriend soon, who I'm in a very healthy relationship with. It's very sad because once in a blue moon, she acts mature and present, and I desperately want to connect with her like that, and even scheduled regular time for us to bond. But any time I let my guard down and expose some vulnerability, she treats me worse. I don't think she's ever seen me clearly for who I am since I graduated elementary school. I'm starting to wonder if she actually has some kind of disorder that creates a delusion that I never grew up. That's probably a stretch, but the way she infantilizes me is way beyond a regular mother fussing over her adult daughter. I'll get away from her soon-- but it breaks my heart because I really wanted a mother-daughter relationship with her that didn't involve one of us playing the role of a child.
It is certainly a tricky situation to navigate, because the intentions of an overprotective parent might seem good in many people's eyes (they will say you are lucky, you will understand your parents one day etc.) but that doesn't change the fact that it is causing you a lot of pain in this moment. It's not like obvious abuse where you can easily point to an abuser and say "please stop hitting me", though it certainly feels that way as your boundaries are constantly broken. The actual feelings you are going through now are that of being trapped and not having the freedom to be yourself, to be authentic. When you say you are being eaten everyday, I imagine it feels like each bite takes a little more of your own authentic voice away. Your mother's way is 'the right way' and your way is 'the wrong way' is how each conversation goes. Even if you can't change your mother's mind, or can't move out yet the only thing I can say is to at least speak your truth and communicate it to your mother, about how her actions are causing you pain. Your mother doesn't have to agree, this is more for yourself so that the feeling doesn't turn inward instead and eat you alive inside. It also gives your mother a chance to understand your point of view, so even if she doesn't understand you can tell yourself that you have done your part to communicate it. Hope this helps and all the best.
My view on this was SYMBOLIC of parents wanting too much control in their child’s life the sense of ; wanting to protect, guide,love them ETC to the point where it can be unhealthy and end up “consuming them” without meaning to. 🤷🏻♀️🤔
I really loved this mini film, my colleagues spent it during the online class to show it to the teacher, it was a lot of fun, and congratulations on the inspiration was extremely
This. I can't ever watch this without crying right along with her. I like when her son shows up and makes amends. The husband/ father figure doesn't really have much of a presence in the film. That gives me the feeling that she may have essentially been alone after her son left. Just my take on things.
I feel like this made me want to spend more time with my parents because she honestly just wanted his time and some attention from her son and he was being rude by just treating her like that. Its ok to be independent, have friends, go on adventures but she deserves time too! She literally loved him so much and protected him in everyway she could.
A classic film that represents that timeless saying "The more you try to hold onto someone, the more you push them away". I still remember the collective gasp from the audience when the mom "ate" Bao. Even hearing some kid say "Why'd she do that!?".
"I wish I made a bao (dumpling) instead (of having you), as I could always eat the bao" ...is something Chinese mothers used in olden days to say to their misbehaving child in a fit of frustration. Gives context to this Pixar short movie
My friend introduced this to me when I was about to leave him telling me that my departure reminds him of this video.. It still sticks in my memory from time to time, but I have no regrets.
I bawled when I saw this in theaters. Love my mom so much but can hardly voice it to her anymore. I know she misses that loving little boy. I’m sorry mom.
In the theater, Pixar usually puts a short film after the trailers and before the feature film. This is the one they played ahead of Incredibles 2, idk if it is included on the blu ray or digital copies because I don’t own either of those. But that is the origin of this short film.
This is such an amazing piece 👏🏾. I am watching it from two different perspectives. One; emotional incest where the mother expected the son to fulfill the roles of his father (always being there and all. We can see she was unhappy before the boy came in her life and everything changed when he did. So she poured out her all to him expecting the same in return . Two; an overly protective (or loving) mother who tries her best to raise her son right. But the world is an unpredictable place. No matter how much you try in parenthood, you never know the outcome. So she becomes so angry when things go the wrong way and disowns her son. In the end, this just makes her sad. She just realizes that no matter what, life will happen and your children will always be your children. And they have a life after you
Her eating the dumpling hit emotionally hard because the only reason the dumpling was born was because she didn't eat it the first time. Kind of like saying "I should have just eaten you years ago!"
This made my cry the part when the mom woke up and saw her son. It made me recall about the times when I disobeyed my mom and that I never really apologized sincerely. I used to get annoyed by my mom but I still love her. I thought that, my mom really did everything for me and that i shouldn’t turn my back on her like that. It hurts me knowing that and I feel very disappointed of myself. I had a conversation with her one time and I asked for her forgiveness. Love your parents everyone. They’re the only people that you truly trust and love.
Being able to raise my kids at home is a tough job but one of the most rewarding things I have ever been able to do! I’m so grateful! When the day comes that my kids will leave home I will do everything in my power to help them leave gracefully, but I know I will cry my eyes out 😂
This short film made me cry 😭 because I know was is like when no one recognized my honor and authority. My younger brother Danny was too stubborn and selfish and ignorant to listen to me and my family all he cares was himself and he still not redeemed.
My favorite part of the film is that in the mother's dream, the girlfriend has more punk style clothing and darker makeup, but in reality, the makeup is lighter in shade and the clothes are different hues. Love the extra detail.
The part at 1:20 reminds me of when I would always be on the phone with my friends. My first phone memory was with my 1st grade best friend and we were woofing at each other like dogs. My parents were listening and thought it was so cute. I know we always tell our youth that time flies and we should enjoy being young. Unfortunately most of us don't listen and don't fully appreciate the freedom we have. Oh how I wish I knew then what I know now. It goes by so fast 😩
I think your all confused. The steam bun was the son. It was simply a plot device to more easily show how the mother viewed the son in her eyes. Came out of nowhere aka a surprise baby. She loved and cared for it but was to protective. Which lead to him wanting to breach out. After wanting to move out his mother wanted refused trying to control him more till eating him aka trying to control him so much that she made him slip away out of her life. The son then comes back as a adult which she’s able to see now as she never was able to see him as a adult. They share a moment of solidarity together and make a happy reunion
My interpretation is like this. The dumpling represents how the mum sees her son - fragile, to be protected and nurtured. When he becomes a teenager and subsequently an adult, he asserts his independence and pushes his mum emotionally away, causing her to feel crushed. The act of swallowing the dumpling is her realizing that her son is a grown up, but it's also where she confronts her loneliness. She is confused why her son won't include her in her life, and rightly so. Many young adults distance themselves to the confusion of her parents. The illusion that she has to take care of her son has shattered. Then in the final scene, when the real son comes back, it symbolizes the start of a new mother-son bond - one based on the mum acknowledging her son is a grown up and seeing him eye to eye, but also being able to care for him like when he was small. The son has also matured to be able to accept her affection and understand her nagging. This is such a lovely and touching animation ❤❤
As an Asian American born to two hardworking Indonesian immigrants, if you are in a similar situation, appreciate your parents and take care of them. You probably aren’t aware, but they’ve been through more than you could possibly imagine to give you a better life and all they want is for you to take care of them in old age
@@Tururu134 all 4 of my grandparents immigrated from China to Indonesia during WW2 and my parents grew up in Indonesia and now live in America so by blood I am 100% Chinese but my parents’ culture is indonesian
I first found this movie on Disney and watched it twice and it made me cry However, many parts of the actual movie are cut out and it is actually 7 minutes long
When me and a couple of friends of mine were at the theater, we watched this before the movie played and during the playing, my friend yelled out, "she married a dumpling"? We all laughed but we still remember it to today
If anyone doesn't know, this is an edited version of an 8 minute animated short; it's definitely worth watching the whole thing!! It was actually shown in theatres here in Vancouver before the animated feature (I can't remember the feature but boy, Bao has stayed in my heart ❤️)
An article about the director (the daughter of a Chinese immigrant): ..."she drew on her own relationship with her mother. "My mom would often hold me close and say, 'Aw, I wish I could put you back in my stomach so I knew exactly where you were at all times,'" she remembers. "Like, 'Aw, that's creepy but sweet,' I guess." Shi wasn't used to seeing the "creepy-sweet" love on screen. "We've all experienced it: It's that sensation of when you see something so cute you could just eat it up," she says. "Or you just want to squeeze it until it pops. It's like, why are you feeling that way?" "
Bao is a 2018 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Domee Shi and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is the first Pixar short film to be directed by a female director. Bao is a double entendre, translating to bāo (a dumpling) and bǎo (treasure, a common childhood endearment). The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards. This animated short film is about an ageing Chinese mother, feeling alone when her child moves out, gets a second chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings comes to life. My honest review on this animated short film was i teared up. Because when it comes to my parents i usually go soft and just tear up. Watching this short film really is an eye opener for most of us definitely when we come to an age where we get to decide for ourselves already. This film is about a mother's love. Growing up our mother has always been there for us through ups and downs. She is the very first person we seek to find when we get hurt or when we have good news to tell. Our mothers is our very own teacher, doctor and protector they know all the things that is best for us. They've seen us go through different phases in life. From feeding us to seeing us eat on our own. Not only that they've seen our struggles but they also saw us during our happy moments. But it is absolutely hard for a mother to let go of her child when he or she decides to go. You can see in the later part of the film that the mother is desperately holding back her child from leaving their house which resulted to eating her own child. This can be a translation to a mother desperately holding back her child from leaving leading to a misunderstanding or worse a fight. It is hard to swallow the fact that we cannot stay with our parents as we grow up because we have our own paths that we need to discover. But we must not forget about the person who's been there for us since the start, since we were babies. No matter the situation is we always go back to our home, our one and only Mom. The plot twist in this animated short film is indeed expected but it made me tear up knowing that i am near to that age where i have to leave in our own home. Overall, this short film catch my eye and made me realize a bunch of things. But one thing is for sure let us treasure every moment we have with our own mother because we only get one in this lifetime. To love is indeed to let go but we will always go back to the person who loved us most and that is our mother.
I never been much of a crier but when I saw this it really choked me up because I was always a mamas boy and this is exactly how our relationship went even the part where he shows up randomly engaged (me and my wife eloped) and my mom was so heart broken but now her and my wife are best friends
@@andrewa1772 I'm not talking about you not loving your mom. Having a rocky relationship implies that you weren't a mama's boy at one point. A mama's boy/girl is someone who is extremely close to and clings to and is extremely dependent on their mom. If you were pushing your mom away and were often angry, distant and resentful of her, that's not being a mama's boy. I was a mama's girl and even though we had our fights and I often think she was overprotective, we still spent a lot of time together and were always extremely close and loving. I never went through a resentment or distant period with her or ever felt like our relationship was on the rocks.
@@aletanook just because the relationship isn’t your ideal mother and son relationship doesn’t mean I wasn’t a mamas boy. I loved my mom very much to the point where anytime I was emotionally upset or physically my mom could literally feel it in her chest even if I was thousands of miles away , she would call me and say “my heart has been hurting all day are you okay?” And sure enough I was not okay. And when my family divorced my mom drove 2 hours every single day just to come see me. For years but as growing teenager I blamed my mom for alot of things cause like any parent she wasn’t the perfect parent and I resented her for it. And like any growing teen you start to be mean to your parents cause there “not cool” . But if anything was to happen to my mom I’m 100% sure I will not be okay and maybe even going down a self destructive path. Lucky for you to have a close loving relationship with your mom .not everyone gets those luxury’s . But even tho I had a rocky relationship with my mom doesn’t mean I wasn’t a mamas boy. Cause I would be just fine without anyone but I wouldn’t be fine without my mom.
@@andrewa1772 I'm sure things are better for you now, but it seems like you are implying that you weren't close to your mom at one point and you had a bad relationship with her, which is the exact opposite of the definition of being a mama or daddy's child. Being empathically intuitive and being upset if anything happened to your loved one (because of course you would) has nothing to do with being a mommy/daddy's child. Not every teen is mean to their parents. You can still be disrespectful, ungrateful, resentful, and distant from your parent even though you love them deep down and would be upset if anything happened to them. I'm sorry to hear that it seems your mom was overprotective of you similar to the mom in Bao. I'm sure things would've went a lot better if she hadn't been.
This shows that a son/daughter have to understand the feeling of his/her dad/mother when he/she got an opportunity for work and is about to leave the house.. family above everything in the world❤
Pra quem não entendeu, basicamente esse short representa uma mãe enxergando seu filho como se fosse um pãozinho cozido, frágil e pequeno, levando ela a ser super protetora, como não deixar ele jogar bola com amigos e coisas do tipo, achando que ele irá se machucar, e quando ele ja está adulto e querendo sair de casa pra morar com sua namorada/esposa, ela não aceita e acaba engolindo ele depois de uma briga, representando ela engolindo o fato de que ele não é mais criança e que ele já cresceu e é independente, logo depois ele volta pra casa pela mágoa de ter tratado sua mãe mal, e ela enxerga ele como ele realmente é, um homem adulto independente, então eles aproveitam seus momentos juntos de desculpas comendo uma refeição que antes ele tinha negado.
I think that this is based off of what mothers see when their kids are growing up. One moment they are sweet innocent children then they grow up to be completely different from how they used to be, the mothers are scared of what might happen to their children and overthink it when in reality they’re good people.
What a sad movie that they make...😢 that would make me my heart ached and my tears flowing to my eyes because of this...actually i was always sad because my friend left from me....because my sadness couldn't keep it...and i was eating a dumpling...perhaps so...😊
Seeing everyone has some confusion with the plot of the movie, I am writing the plot of the movie for those who couldn't understand it properly:)
In Toronto, Canada, a Chinese-Canadian woman, whose husband is busy at work, makes a steamed bun that comes alive. She raises the steamed bun as a child, feeding it meals. Eventually the child wishes to play soccer with the other kids, despite his mother's protection. As her son ages into a teenager and a young adult, he increasingly wants independence, while his mother wishes for more attention from him, feeling ignored. When the steamed bun introduces his new fiancée and announces his intentions to move out of his mother's house, his mother protests. The mother tries to stop the steamed bun from leaving, but he pulls free. In a fit of anger, the mother eats the steamed bun, after which she cries over what she has done. Later, the mother lies in bed, and her real son enters the room, revealing that the whole sequence was an allegorical dream. The son, resembling the steamed bun, is told by his father to apologize to his mother, as she ignores him. He enters the room, offering the same treat the mother gave the steamed bun, and as they share it, they both cry. Afterwards, the whole family, including the son's fiancée, make steamed buns, as they sit at the table watching television.
Moral of the animation and story, people only appreciate what they have when they lose it, so appreciate what you have before you lose it
It was a mind blowing art piece by you . Don't worry about will understand it or not . Amazing
felial piety is one of the most important culture in Asian families
Im guessing the mom is strict with the child(stereotypical asian parent) she cared about him, but maybe a bit too much, seeing what he was becoming in her view(a rebel) she probably punished him, and he ended up running away.
Thats what probably happened, so of course she wasnt eating her own child; instead its probably an allegory for him running away because of his mother's strict nature
WaaaaaaaAaaa
Many of you seem to be confused, her swallowing the dumpling was a representation of her having to swallow the hard truth that her son was growing up and moving onto his own journey.
I think it was the mother trying to consume him/take away his freedom entirely (like the fairytale words, "I'll eat you up!").
That’s not what that was at all
@@sg639 no, It shows that the mother is not ready to let her son go.
@@dug3952 That is a facet of my remark.
Why are you pretending that this film is anything other than demented shit from an inferior culture?
Bao represents the “child” image of the real son through mama’s point of view. The moment the lady eats Bao shows that she cannot accept her son’s adulthood and kinda forces her will/opinion/caring on him. When he really shows up in the short, it feels like the lady finally comes to acceptance that her son is not a little kid anymore.
Ohh! Thanks!
so its the mother's fault?
And the reason y hes so small is bcuz mom still sees him as her little dumpling lol
@@DSWDm technically not her mother missed her son alot and since his son looked like a steamed bao wich is technically my pfp but the steamed bao in my pfp is a pig but the mother thought the steamed bao was his own son and started raising it but as it got older it started going in the teenage phase where they start to become mature and denial soon the mother really didn't want his own son to grow into adulthood and ate the steamed bao realizing what she did she cried and cried when the father came back from work he saw the mother laying on bed crying herself to sleep after seeing his wife like that he called his son to apologize to her and later invited his fiancee to make steamed bao together
@@DSWDm I don’t think so!
Ok, but the implication of this is really wholesome. The dumpling is a sort of a metaphor for how the mom saw her son. He was something small and fragile that she had to protect, even after her kid was well into his adulthood. So, the scene where she swallows the dumpling was not of her literally murdering her son-rather, it represented her realization that he was no longer her “little dumpling”, but a fully grown man now. In doing this, she was finally able to see her son as who he is, instead of just having this infantilizing mental image of him.
thanks
Perfectly said. I noticed some people like to take the scene where she ate him so literally. Calling her obsessive or selfish, but that's notttt the jist/point at all. I love this short film. It's so precious and wholesome, and the real message/meaning of it is even more precious and so relatable (for parents of course).
Bao is a kind of stuffed bun rather than a dumpling in Chinese culture
Oh she is a girl
Ohh thank you 😊
Bao looks a lot like my late uncle. Even dressed like him, too. I didn't think I would be crying about it, I haven't cried since it happened around 10 years ago. Thank you Disney, damn.
Ur a europhike xd jk
Not crying in 10 years is kinda impossible
@@Echo-PAL I meant abt my unc. Yes I do be crying
Rest In Peace.
u must really like your uncle, did he give you special treatment?
Wow, the name is so clever! Bao in Chinese means dumpling, but it can also mean child.
Vivian Liu wow I didn’t know it also met child! Thanks for the comment!
It can also mean treasure. Huh.
that means she ate a child!
Wait what- I'm chinese myself and I don't know that-
@@0cexniz3e33 宝宝（bao bao）means baby, derived from 宝贝, meaning treasure, a commonly used nickname for children from parents.
I’m literally about to cry. This film is so wholesome! The meaning of it is everyone has to grow up, and you can’t stop them from it. (At least that’s what I learnt) When she swallowed bao, that means she’s accepting that he’s growing up. A sign of respect for this short film!
Cuz of the WAAH When the lady was eating the poop (bao)
And the crazy thing it isn't even a film. We just accept it as one.
I feel the same way to the short film. Kind of reminds me how my relationship between me and my Brother didn’t turned out well.
This short reminds me so much of my sister and my brother-in-law. She and his mom didn’t get along at first because she was so protective of him (he is her baby/youngest), but now they get along so well. I realized recently too that her initials are B.A.O! 🥰 love this animation. Seriously makes me weep 😭.
You're weeping at a film about a wonton that comes to life. Seriously, seek help.
@@jbrisby People have different interpretations of the short and its symbolism. If you think of it that way, sure it does seem weird.
@@jbrisby that’s not even a wonton, dumbass. It’s literally in the name of the film
@@soy5977 that's not kind
@@jbrisby If that's all you got from this film, seriously, seek help.
At first i thought the lady is a young boy.
What ever ... it was a beautiful short film !
Me too
@@soumyarani5941 jak amiee ekmatro noi
I ment i am not the only one...
@@benchwriter2069 ooo ok 🙆
Same here 😅
Same
Makes me cry everytime. Knowing first hand what mum's go through when their children grow up and leave the nest. Such a sweet little animation, if only I wouldn't get so emotional when I watch it.
It made me cry too cause I know it’s like for some part of my family doesn’t recognize my authority. Someone who always dishonors me.
Jesus, I didn’t know why my wife was crying. Told her to relax it’s just a cartoon. Snuck up into our room afterwards, and searched this. Now I understand
1. Exposition: at home there is a husband and wife who are making steamed buns.
2. Initial Incident: After cooking the steamed bread, the mother eats the bread with her husband, but when she is about to eat it she imagines the bread as if she is alive and becomes her child.
3. Rising Action: after the steamed buns were raised by the mother, the steamed buns wanted to be free and apart from the mother, she and her fiancee left her mother's house.
4. Climax: because she didn't want to lose the steamed bun which she considered a child, the mother finally ate the steamed bun, and regretted it later.
5. Falling action: when the mother fell asleep, it turned out that the real child went home and met his mother.
6. Resolution: the son finally came home with his fiancé and made peace with his mother, they finally cooked steamed buns together and lived happily
7. Denoument: they become that happy family
Woah! I can tell that you have been to story development classes..couze, I see a detailed plot structure..if that is what its called..
Anyways..thankyou for explaining the story..I mean it💜
DUDE TYSM I NEEDED THIS FOR THEATER LMAO
@@ankita6703 Me too, this dude just saved my grade
Denoument? Never heard of that word
I love you girl and kyna
I love this short so much, it reminds me so mich of my family! Particulalry the mother being my grandmother, using food as a means to connect with her grand/children. Like dumpling-boy, my Dad went and married a white girl (hence my existence). There's just so many similarities! Both the Dad in Bao and my Grandpa always sit on the chair closest to the window. My Dad also loves playing soccer like dumpling-boy. Truly, my heart goes out to the creators of Bao. I never thought I would find anything that reminds me this much of my family.
Thanks so much!
For those who didn’t understand it:
90% of the short movie is an allegorical dream. Everything from 0:01 to 2:10 is not real. It’s a dream metaphor. The mother had a son years ago who grew up and left. So, feeling lonely, she dreams of raising a dumpling son who grows up and leaves. At 2:12, you even see her sleeping. From 2:12 onwards, everything is real. Her son revisits after many years, and they reconcile.
Also: her eating her dumpling son could be symbolic of many things of what happened in real life. Maybe the mother disowning her child, hitting her child, or even maybe her harshly saying “I never want to see you again!”
P.S. This isn’t the entire short! It’s edited and cut many times. It’s incomplete…I recommend searching for the full, complete version!
I watched it yesterday, and it was super wholesome, it’s mainly my sister that would watch this Pixar short.
Ohhh, so thats why there's photo with her and her husband and her son above the bed
thankyou for bieng so kind to tell this information! :)
The first time I watched this, I didn't find it all that great but the more I watch it, the more I find it touching and beautiful. Thats something you rarely find in cinema.
they won an oscar too. really well deserved.
My brother and my mom used to get into a lot of arguments growing up, when the two watched this together they both cried and hugged each other. Even through arguments and disagreements they still love each other.
I really appreciated that he felt sad without her too and he reached out to her. So often, these stories place the burden and responsibility entirely on the parent. Even if that's the case, it doesn't hurt to give the child sufficient nuance as a human being to love his mom, even as clingy and frightened as she is.
This was the sweetest Disney short film…and probably my favorite one.
2:00 When you realize that most of this short is a dream and that the events in the dream all happened in real life and the mom eating the bao is a fictional and dream like representation of her slapping her child in the real world. Damn.🥺😢
OH THANK GOD I WAS SO FUCKING WEIRDED OUT BY ALL THAT😂
Me and my brother have been wondering what kind of fucked up shit that was since we watched Incredibles 2 at the theaters😂😂😂
That’s a good interesting way of seeing it! Slapping her son...so sad....
For me I thought: When she ate the dumpling, It’s symbolic for how in real life, she said goodbye angrily forever to her child and it was the “death of her child” in her eyes....she was angry and said permanently goodbye when he moved away and got married, and symbolically it felt like death for her.
In this imaginary “my child is a dumpling fantasy” analogy world (which is what we visually see in the film), it was her eating the dumpling and never seeing him again
Wow now I understand
That's an archetype Jung called "the devouring mother".
I loved this animation when I saw it in the cinema first. The animation shows beautifully how a mother, or any parent can struggle with loneliness when their child grows up. But in the end even how small it is, food unites us together and can show how we love each other
The dumpling looks kind of like my Big brother who just graduated from college except for the glasses.
This is a masterpiece. I cried when I watched it. It was just incredible no pun intended.
no bun intended
NO, MAKE ME LEAVE, I DARE YE!
You actually fell for this crap? This might just be the single most demented way to tell a story about empty nest syndrome. WTF is wrong with Asian people!?!?!?
@@brickest It was shown before Incredibles 2 chief
@@brickest it being shown before The Incredibles would make falling the film incredible a pun
Anyone that grew up in Asia or have Asian immigrant parents will understand everything in the movie so well! Never forget who you are and where you come from.
I think any mother will understand regardless of ethnic background. The story is universal.
I look forward to the day when Pixar releases a short that doesn’t make me cry
i think turning red will just do the trick.
@@chloey_21 that isn't a short film
@@chloey_21 turned red made me want to harm myself instead of cry
i can't help crying 😢😢😢 it can touch to soul😣😣😣
I also touched my soul and I also cried
When I first saw this I began weeping in the theater and couldn't stop.
@@agusfereey982 you touched your soul? nice
everytime i watch this animation it makes me sob. wonderful story. very cute characters. happy ending. it checks all the boxes. good job domee shi.
and also their oscar is very well deserved.
I literally saw this at the cinema before the movie started last year, didn't expect to see it again.
But I'm glad I did, I would've forgotten about this amazing animation.
bro this animation is dogsh**
@@OnNatoBB 🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪
This hurts. I'm an adult trying to develop independence and leave home, but my mother only sees me as her little baby. When my boyfriend and I started talking about getting a house together, she tried to discourage him and sabotage our relationship. I can't get her to acknowledge me as anything other than a small child. She wont even treat me like an immature adult. Literally reminds me to wear a coat when it's cold out, points at food that's in front of me at the table, picks lint off clothes I'm wearing, etc. I'm looking for a job now, and I'm keeping it a secret from her because I'm afraid of how she'll react. She eats me every day. If I were a bun, she'd definitely eat me rather than let me move on to an adult role away from her with a person I love who isn't her. She can't conceptualize me as existing in any other role than her cute little stupid helpless baby meat bun.
You know at the end of the day you will undarstend her😊
Relatable❤
Awww, I hope you found peace with this situation. You have to live your life for you. Your mother loves you so, so much.
@@sheliawilliams4353 She loves her vision of me as a little girl. But I'll be moving away with my boyfriend soon, who I'm in a very healthy relationship with. It's very sad because once in a blue moon, she acts mature and present, and I desperately want to connect with her like that, and even scheduled regular time for us to bond. But any time I let my guard down and expose some vulnerability, she treats me worse. I don't think she's ever seen me clearly for who I am since I graduated elementary school. I'm starting to wonder if she actually has some kind of disorder that creates a delusion that I never grew up. That's probably a stretch, but the way she infantilizes me is way beyond a regular mother fussing over her adult daughter. I'll get away from her soon-- but it breaks my heart because I really wanted a mother-daughter relationship with her that didn't involve one of us playing the role of a child.
It is certainly a tricky situation to navigate, because the intentions of an overprotective parent might seem good in many people's eyes (they will say you are lucky, you will understand your parents one day etc.) but that doesn't change the fact that it is causing you a lot of pain in this moment. It's not like obvious abuse where you can easily point to an abuser and say "please stop hitting me", though it certainly feels that way as your boundaries are constantly broken.
The actual feelings you are going through now are that of being trapped and not having the freedom to be yourself, to be authentic. When you say you are being eaten everyday, I imagine it feels like each bite takes a little more of your own authentic voice away. Your mother's way is 'the right way' and your way is 'the wrong way' is how each conversation goes.
Even if you can't change your mother's mind, or can't move out yet the only thing I can say is to at least speak your truth and communicate it to your mother, about how her actions are causing you pain. Your mother doesn't have to agree, this is more for yourself so that the feeling doesn't turn inward instead and eat you alive inside. It also gives your mother a chance to understand your point of view, so even if she doesn't understand you can tell yourself that you have done your part to communicate it.
Hope this helps and all the best.
Great short film, I also think it's interesting/love how people have many different takes for what her swallowing the dumpling symbolizes.
This was so sweet. It made me cry. My niece and nephew even hugged me cause they saw how touched I was by it.
How to know a food has toxins
-It starts crying
-it sneezes itself a nose
-it sprouts a tiny chibi body
-it grows a beard and human senses
My view on this was SYMBOLIC of parents wanting too much control in their child’s life the sense of ; wanting to protect, guide,love them ETC to the point where it can be unhealthy and end up “consuming them” without meaning to. 🤷🏻♀️🤔
I do think the tactic to try to "consume" is intentional, but it does not work. In fact, children will make independent choices.
When you realize that a chinese woman is eating you:
0:22(pause)
That’s what’s happening
I thought that was a guy
dogs be like
don’t get mad at me please i’m chinese and i’m just joking
Lol
@@ctnke ah you beat me to it
I really loved this mini film, my colleagues spent it during the online class to show it to the teacher, it was a lot of fun, and congratulations on the inspiration was extremely
This. I can't ever watch this without crying right along with her. I like when her son shows up and makes amends. The husband/ father figure doesn't really have much of a presence in the film. That gives me the feeling that she may have essentially been alone after her son left. Just my take on things.
I feel like this made me want to spend more time with my parents because she honestly just wanted his time and some attention from her son and he was being rude by just treating her like that. Its ok to be independent, have friends, go on adventures but she deserves time too! She literally loved him so much and protected him in everyway she could.
A classic film that represents that timeless saying "The more you try to hold onto someone, the more you push them away". I still remember the collective gasp from the audience when the mom "ate" Bao. Even hearing some kid say "Why'd she do that!?".
I watched this on Disney plus it makes me cry every time
I don't understand, me and my nephew were laughing so much at the potato shape of her head
lmao
@@b0bbuffet shallow
@@powerfulberry237 ?
"I wish I made a bao (dumpling) instead (of having you), as I could always eat the bao"
...is something Chinese mothers used in olden days to say to their misbehaving child in a fit of frustration.
Gives context to this Pixar short movie
Boa🥡
This is literally asian parents and its just so wholesome and an emotional short film.
this short flim was at the start of the INCREADBLS 2
My friend introduced this to me when I was about to leave him telling me that my departure reminds him of this video.. It still sticks in my memory from time to time, but I have no regrets.
This was so sweet! I loved it, thank you so much. I completely understand how it won :)
I love how Human Bao’s Fiancé just learned how to make dumplings. 😊 2:53
This and Turning Red really gave an Amazing Story in Canada. Domee Shi is Great at Directing Film 🤗
I bawled when I saw this in theaters. Love my mom so much but can hardly voice it to her anymore. I know she misses that loving little boy. I’m sorry mom.
Awww baby dumpling looks so cute i just want to hug him
pixar had no right to play this right before incredibles 2 and make me cry like a baby every time i think about it
It's the most heart touching short film I have even seen.
Really, big hands of applause for the maker of this film.
👍👏👏👏👏
Pixar. It was at the beginning of Incredibles 2.
@@xxslendermomxx3026 where i dont see?
In the theater, Pixar usually puts a short film after the trailers and before the feature film. This is the one they played ahead of Incredibles 2, idk if it is included on the blu ray or digital copies because I don’t own either of those. But that is the origin of this short film.
@@xxslendermomxx3026 I see...thanks for telling
@@xxslendermomxx3026 you are right. It is by Pixar
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This is such an amazing piece 👏🏾. I am watching it from two different perspectives. One; emotional incest where the mother expected the son to fulfill the roles of his father (always being there and all. We can see she was unhappy before the boy came in her life and everything changed when he did. So she poured out her all to him expecting the same in return .
Two; an overly protective (or loving) mother who tries her best to raise her son right. But the world is an unpredictable place. No matter how much you try in parenthood, you never know the outcome. So she becomes so angry when things go the wrong way and disowns her son. In the end, this just makes her sad. She just realizes that no matter what, life will happen and your children will always be your children. And they have a life after you
I just sent this to my Chinese BFF. She absolutely loved it ❤🥟.
@갈라스틱 It was close to home for her.
Awww this came up on the cinema ads and I started crying... Still hits me to this day 😭😭😭
I understand her love for her son. She is just trying to care about him.
Her eating the dumpling hit emotionally hard because the only reason the dumpling was born was because she didn't eat it the first time. Kind of like saying "I should have just eaten you years ago!"
That feast she made... I WOULD HAVE EATEN EVERYTHING!
Well, if I could.
I had not watched this in a while. Still makes me tear up. It will always be a favorite for me.
I’m always crying in this short film. It’s sad but then has a joyful ending so I like the mix of emotions of sadness and joyful tears.
This made my cry the part when the mom woke up and saw her son.
It made me recall about the times when I disobeyed my mom and that I never really apologized sincerely.
I used to get annoyed by my mom but I still love her. I thought that, my mom really did everything for me and that i shouldn’t turn my back on her like that.
It hurts me knowing that and I feel very disappointed of myself.
I had a conversation with her one time and I asked for her forgiveness.
Love your parents everyone. They’re the only people that you truly trust and love.
I always end up in tears when i watch this. It is so beautiful
Being able to raise my kids at home is a tough job but one of the most rewarding things I have ever been able to do! I’m so grateful! When the day comes that my kids will leave home I will do everything in my power to help them leave gracefully, but I know I will cry my eyes out 😂
2:00 im going to hell for laughing😂
who’s coming with me?
Yup
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Wait for me *Kicks Other People in the way*
Hell cant be bad
Yes xDXD
I busted out laughing myself, see ya there 🤘
Probably the best Pixar short
Soy el like 7999 uwu y por cierto el corto es asi o lo editaron?
EDITAISIMO LOKO
Why did I watch this multiple times crying! 😂❤
them when they were sharing the bun: im sorry
me when eating a bun: (whispers while crying) this so fucking good
This short film made me cry 😭 because I know was is like when no one recognized my honor and authority. My younger brother Danny was too stubborn and selfish and ignorant to listen to me and my family all he cares was himself and he still not redeemed.
My favorite part of the film is that in the mother's dream, the girlfriend has more punk style clothing and darker makeup, but in reality, the makeup is lighter in shade and the clothes are different hues. Love the extra detail.
The part that touched my soul,
When mother cried, she hold him and eat it, and she very sad
The part at 1:20 reminds me of when I would always be on the phone with my friends. My first phone memory was with my 1st grade best friend and we were woofing at each other like dogs. My parents were listening and thought it was so cute.
I know we always tell our youth that time flies and we should enjoy being young. Unfortunately most of us don't listen and don't fully appreciate the freedom we have. Oh how I wish I knew then what I know now. It goes by so fast 😩
Essa foi a primeira animação que eu vi na tv e isso me traz uma boa memória :)
wait a minute at 1:23 on the door is that suppose to a nwa picture cuz i recongized that exact picture
I think your all confused. The steam bun was the son. It was simply a plot device to more easily show how the mother viewed the son in her eyes. Came out of nowhere aka a surprise baby. She loved and cared for it but was to protective. Which lead to him wanting to breach out. After wanting to move out his mother wanted refused trying to control him more till eating him aka trying to control him so much that she made him slip away out of her life. The son then comes back as a adult which she’s able to see now as she never was able to see him as a adult. They share a moment of solidarity together and make a happy reunion
right? how can people be this clueless
My interpretation is like this. The dumpling represents how the mum sees her son - fragile, to be protected and nurtured. When he becomes a teenager and subsequently an adult, he asserts his independence and pushes his mum emotionally away, causing her to feel crushed. The act of swallowing the dumpling is her realizing that her son is a grown up, but it's also where she confronts her loneliness. She is confused why her son won't include her in her life, and rightly so. Many young adults distance themselves to the confusion of her parents. The illusion that she has to take care of her son has shattered.
Then in the final scene, when the real son comes back, it symbolizes the start of a new mother-son bond - one based on the mum acknowledging her son is a grown up and seeing him eye to eye, but also being able to care for him like when he was small. The son has also matured to be able to accept her affection and understand her nagging.
This is such a lovely and touching animation ❤❤
👍🏾
As an Asian American born to two hardworking Indonesian immigrants, if you are in a similar situation, appreciate your parents and take care of them. You probably aren’t aware, but they’ve been through more than you could possibly imagine to give you a better life and all they want is for you to take care of them in old age
how does your lineage work
@@Tururu134 considering their parents are Indonesian, I think it’s safe to assume they’re Indonesian too lol
@@Tururu134 all 4 of my grandparents immigrated from China to Indonesia during WW2 and my parents grew up in Indonesia and now live in America so by blood I am 100% Chinese but my parents’ culture is indonesian
I haven't watched this story for years but now...😢 I'm really happy I have found it.
0:22 immense crying
0:28 calms down
0:32 uwu
0:38 flat
0:46 🥬
0:48 dessert??
0:50 yoga
0:52 dog
0:57 growing up
1:02 running
1:09 flat x2
1:15 neglect
1:25 call
1:26 dinner
1:32 not hungry
1:35 going out
1:39 anger
1:50 confusion
2:02 eat
2:05 depression
2:46 yayayayay happy ending
I first found this movie on Disney and watched it twice and it made me cry
However, many parts of the actual movie are cut out and it is actually 7 minutes long
Can't believe i cried at a film about dumpling
Bao
This film touched my heart so much. I know this film makes more sense to someone asian like me. But I’m glad there are comments explaining the film.
When me and a couple of friends of mine were at the theater, we watched this before the movie played and during the playing, my friend yelled out, "she married a dumpling"? We all laughed but we still remember it to today
Where is the movie which website
If anyone doesn't know, this is an edited version of an 8 minute animated short; it's definitely worth watching the whole thing!! It was actually shown in theatres here in Vancouver before the animated feature (I can't remember the feature but boy, Bao has stayed in my heart ❤️)
Them making the bao at the end is so beautiful 😭
An article about the director (the daughter of a Chinese immigrant): ..."she drew on her own relationship with her mother. "My mom would often hold me close and say, 'Aw, I wish I could put you back in my stomach so I knew exactly where you were at all times,'" she remembers. "Like, 'Aw, that's creepy but sweet,' I guess." Shi wasn't used to seeing the "creepy-sweet" love on screen. "We've all experienced it: It's that sensation of when you see something so cute you could just eat it up," she says. "Or you just want to squeeze it until it pops. It's like, why are you feeling that way?" "
Bao is a 2018 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Domee Shi and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is the first Pixar short film to be directed by a female director. Bao is a double entendre, translating to bāo (a dumpling) and bǎo (treasure, a common childhood endearment). The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards. This animated short film is about an ageing Chinese mother, feeling alone when her child moves out, gets a second chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings comes to life.
My honest review on this animated short film was i teared up. Because when it comes to my parents i usually go soft and just tear up. Watching this short film really is an eye opener for most of us definitely when we come to an age where we get to decide for ourselves already. This film is about a mother's love. Growing up our mother has always been there for us through ups and downs. She is the very first person we seek to find when we get hurt or when we have good news to tell.
Our mothers is our very own teacher, doctor and protector they know all the things that is best for us. They've seen us go through different phases in life. From feeding us to seeing us eat on our own. Not only that they've seen our struggles but they also saw us during our happy moments. But it is absolutely hard for a mother to let go of her child when he or she decides to go. You can see in the later part of the film that the mother is desperately holding back her child from leaving their house which resulted to eating her own child.
This can be a translation to a mother desperately holding back her child from leaving leading to a misunderstanding or worse a fight. It is hard to swallow the fact that we cannot stay with our parents as we grow up because we have our own paths that we need to discover. But we must not forget about the person who's been there for us since the start, since we were babies. No matter the situation is we always go back to our home, our one and only Mom. The plot twist in this animated short film is indeed expected but it made me tear up knowing that i am near to that age where i have to leave in our own home.
Overall, this short film catch my eye and made me realize a bunch of things. But one thing is for sure let us treasure every moment we have with our own mother because we only get one in this lifetime. To love is indeed to let go but we will always go back to the person who loved us most and that is our mother.
I never been much of a crier but when I saw this it really choked me up because I was always a mamas boy and this is exactly how our relationship went even the part where he shows up randomly engaged (me and my wife eloped) and my mom was so heart broken but now her and my wife are best friends
Wait, how can you say you were always a mama's boy and then say you didn't have a good relationship initially?
@@aletanook just because your relationship is rocky doesn’t mean I don’t love my mom or my mom doesn’t love me , we just both had strong personalities
@@andrewa1772 I'm not talking about you not loving your mom. Having a rocky relationship implies that you weren't a mama's boy at one point. A mama's boy/girl is someone who is extremely close to and clings to and is extremely dependent on their mom. If you were pushing your mom away and were often angry, distant and resentful of her, that's not being a mama's boy. I was a mama's girl and even though we had our fights and I often think she was overprotective, we still spent a lot of time together and were always extremely close and loving. I never went through a resentment or distant period with her or ever felt like our relationship was on the rocks.
@@aletanook just because the relationship isn’t your ideal mother and son relationship doesn’t mean I wasn’t a mamas boy. I loved my mom very much to the point where anytime I was emotionally upset or physically my mom could literally feel it in her chest even if I was thousands of miles away , she would call me and say “my heart has been hurting all day are you okay?” And sure enough I was not okay. And when my family divorced my mom drove 2 hours every single day just to come see me. For years but as growing teenager I blamed my mom for alot of things cause like any parent she wasn’t the perfect parent and I resented her for it. And like any growing teen you start to be mean to your parents cause there “not cool” . But if anything was to happen to my mom I’m 100% sure I will not be okay and maybe even going down a self destructive path. Lucky for you to have a close loving relationship with your mom .not everyone gets those luxury’s . But even tho I had a rocky relationship with my mom doesn’t mean I wasn’t a mamas boy. Cause I would be just fine without anyone but I wouldn’t be fine without my mom.
@@andrewa1772 I'm sure things are better for you now, but it seems like you are implying that you weren't close to your mom at one point and you had a bad relationship with her, which is the exact opposite of the definition of being a mama or daddy's child. Being empathically intuitive and being upset if anything happened to your loved one (because of course you would) has nothing to do with being a mommy/daddy's child. Not every teen is mean to their parents. You can still be disrespectful, ungrateful, resentful, and distant from your parent even though you love them deep down and would be upset if anything happened to them.
I'm sorry to hear that it seems your mom was overprotective of you similar to the mom in Bao. I'm sure things would've went a lot better if she hadn't been.
This is a fantastic animation, but how is it possible that every youtube copy is cut so terribly?
I'm sorry but I cracked up when she ate the dumpling 😋 couldn't help it lol xx
Joanne I have written the plot so now you can check and understand it
Thanks for watching:)
@@MovieMania-pw7uv thanks but I understood it before ..... it's not exactly difficult to grasp.
I did too. Was not expecting that!!
SAME LOL but sad at same time for me
The movie arrival explains why these heathens responded to this movie in this manner.
This shows that a son/daughter have to understand the feeling of his/her dad/mother when he/she got an opportunity for work and is about to leave the house.. family above everything in the world❤
Pra quem não entendeu, basicamente esse short representa uma mãe enxergando seu filho como se fosse um pãozinho cozido, frágil e pequeno, levando ela a ser super protetora, como não deixar ele jogar bola com amigos e coisas do tipo, achando que ele irá se machucar, e quando ele ja está adulto e querendo sair de casa pra morar com sua namorada/esposa, ela não aceita e acaba engolindo ele depois de uma briga, representando ela engolindo o fato de que ele não é mais criança e que ele já cresceu e é independente, logo depois ele volta pra casa pela mágoa de ter tratado sua mãe mal, e ela enxerga ele como ele realmente é, um homem adulto independente, então eles aproveitam seus momentos juntos de desculpas comendo uma refeição que antes ele tinha negado.
Obrigada pela explicação ❤
I think that this is based off of what mothers see when their kids are growing up. One moment they are sweet innocent children then they grow up to be completely different from how they used to be, the mothers are scared of what might happen to their children and overthink it when in reality they’re good people.
Its a good story and i think tge moral of this story is that we need to understand the feelings of each other if we want to live a happy life
This short film literally made my 2 yr old daughter cry 😢
I never saw this in theatres. So glad I watched it now; I'm actually tearing up a bit.
This is so wholesome!! 😢
And extremely relatable
What a sad movie that they make...😢 that would make me my heart ached and my tears flowing to my eyes because of this...actually i was always sad because my friend left from me....because my sadness couldn't keep it...and i was eating a dumpling...perhaps so...😊
Hola hablo español :v
This shows that you can’t always over protective of your child when they are older
I swear when she ate the dumpling I was like oop- I know she didn't just do that bahahahahaha
I think we can all say that this short was more Incredible than the Incredibles 2.
Bao God of dumplings
Bao! 🤗
This Movie Make me Cry 😢😢😢😔🥺😭🥹 Let God Save you ❤❤❤❤❤✝️✝️
When you realize this is the child-friendly version of the movie "Dumplings" way back in 2004, look it up
Mmmh. I don't think so bud.... This is about her hating that her hold is growing up not her wanting to eat children