Bao- The emotional story. (Oscar winning animated short film)

The movie bao is about and ageing and lonely canadian-chinese mother, suffering from empty nest syndrome, who receives a second chance at motherhood when a steamed bun (bao) comes to life as a boy. This movie won the Oscar for best animated short film 2019.Please like,share and SUBSCRIBE my channel for more awesome videos .Thanks for Watching :)
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[MovieMania-pwuv]

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.

[nobleavian]

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.

[dappergrizzly]

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.

[MollyWat]

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.

[kitto]

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.

[vivianliu]

Wow, the name is so clever! Bao in Chinese means dumpling, but it can also mean child.

[iseeyou]

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!

[shae]

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 😭.

[fd]

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!

[lrcltbr]

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.

[gmaskdrawz]

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.🥺😢

[georgiegirlization]

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.

[Fitriaya]

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

[cheezitthesquirrel]

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.

[benchwriter]

At first i thought the lady is a young boy.

What ever ... it was a beautiful short film !

[LilleviathanYT]

This is a masterpiece. I cried when I watched it. It was just incredible no pun intended.

[marcusyoung]

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!

[zerofox]

I look forward to the day when Pixar releases a short that doesn’t make me cry

[robin.jashinsky]

This was the sweetest Disney short film…and probably my favorite one.

[MayLily-Yeah]

Who else started watching this and said to themselves “I’m not gonna cry I’m not gonna cry” ?
But still cried?..