Their kids are bringing home spouses or partners or people that are not from the same culture as their parents. "Interracial dating is just a huge thing and a lot of immigrant families are dealing with it. "I wanted to show this thing that I see all around me in my friends and my generation and even in myself," Shi says. However, in the real world ending, she's just in socks, a signal that she's respecting Chinese customs. When she's with the dumpling, she's wearing shoes in the house. Plus, the animators added a tiny detail to demonstrate how the imagined version of her is not the reality. In fact, she's more adept at dumpling-making than the son is. After the big reveal, the audience and the mother see that this woman isn't so bad. "It would be someone young, someone non-Asian, this foreign strange woman who is coming into her life and taking her baby away from her." But Shi wanted to, once again, subvert expectations. "When I first came up with the gag of the dumpling bringing home a human girlfriend, I was just thinking of what would this mom's worst nightmare be for this dumpling bringing home anybody, and it would be a person who is the exact opposite of her," Shi says. Things start to go awry when the dumpling brings home a blonde, cheery girlfriend. Shi, the first female director of a Pixar short ever, and her producer Becky Neiman-Cobb walked us through its creation.īao also slides in commentary about interracial dating
But Bao - and that moment of consumption - is still incredibly bold. Thus, what seems like a funny fantasy turns into a nuanced fable about overprotective parents and their rebellious children, brimming with cultural specificity.
Well, the next frames reveal that it was all a metaphor, because there at the door to the woman's bedroom is her adult son, who has the same goatee as the dumpling, but is an actual human and not made of dough and pork. When it is about to leave home, with a girlfriend in tow, the mother gets frustrated and swallows it whole. It ages and gets surly - like most young adults do. From there, the meat-filled creature becomes her surrogate child. The little film tells the story of a dumpling that awakens, screaming like a baby just before its creator, an older Chinese woman, is about to sink her teeth into it. Director Domee Shi knows her Pixar short Bao, which screens before Incredibles 2, goes to some dark places.
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