Cinema Therapy: For Self-help
Big Hero 6
“Hello, I’m Baymax. Your personal healthcare companion.”
This is the introduction to the ‘robotic nurse’. If you’ve never seen a robot who’s a nurse then you’ve never seen something that looks like a ‘walking marshmallow’, the kind offering candies. The movie that revolves around Hiro and his companion, Baymax is something that needs to be watched when in need of assurance.
I’ll not give out the plot here, because I wouldn’t want to spoil the movie. Instead, this will be a list of reasons that will make you want to watch it.
1) For starters, the movie has a giant-white-huggable robot who is programmed to heal and not hurt. He’d try to mend things and people, by all means. Something that we all want at times, to be looked after. Also, a reminder that nothing or no one is as broken that they can’t be healed.
2) Hiro, who’s the protagonist deals with loss and grief. He chooses to shut everyone out, as a result of which he coops himself in his room. With his robot friend, he evolves into someone who’s more receptive of help. Something that is an important process of healing. The movie shows how reliance on others doesn’t make you weaker.
3) See, every superhero movie has a villain, so does ‘Big Hero 6’. But it also shows the need and importance to not become someone that you dislike. To probably choose a route that doesn’t cause harm. While it does that, Hiro also realizes the need to empathize and think why the antagonist (who will remain unnamed here) does what he does. Establishing the fact that he does not become less of a bad person, despite his motive.
4) Big Hero 6 has a deep central theme with everything that a good animated-superhero movie should have. There’s grief, heartbreak, joy, excitement, celebration, and anger, you know, a multitude of emotions. It is something that does not celebrate false hope but the need to move on, in order to be happy.
5) When we watch Hiro, we see and understand the need to evolve, even if that means changing our ideals.
If nothing else, Big hero 6 and Baymax with Hiro will give you some very happy and funny moments. Oh and, “It is alright to cry!”
