Disney Pixar's 'UP' opening review

 The 2009 classic animation 'UP'  by Disney Pixar follows the story of an Old couple named Carl and  Ellie who have identical interests and grow up together, eventually falling in love and getting married. The story takes a dark turn when Ellie dies when the couple are both elderly, and their house is jeopardy for either demolishment or auction. The story gets lighter once we see Carl mature from someone who holds on to Ellie, using the house as her personification, to someone who is supportive of a young orphan boy who's just trying to get his last scout badge.

Opening with black and white old footage of a famous pilot in the cinema, A young carl is seen in awe sitting alone and dressing up like the pilot, this is foreshadowing as the person he admires turns into the villain after leaning later on in the plot that Carl has been keeping a rare animal he's been lookin for to restore his credibility. 

A younger Carl sports a round and soft shape language which eventually becomes more bolder and flat as his age progresses.

When Carl first meets Ellie the house is misty and strongly lit, it could represent the light she fulfils in his uncertain/foggy/unsure life.

Carl finds out Ellie is also into piloting, she is the Alpha in their earlier days, even pointing out that Carl never really spoke.

When Carl gets injured by trying to retrieve a blue balloon he got from movie as merchandise, in the house he would eventually purchase together with Ellie as newly weds, he is sent to the hospital and Ellie sends a log with the same balloon to entertain him, which is Juxtaposed when Carl returns the favor, except it is when Ellie is on her death bed.

Carl is told Ellies dreams in their initial encounter, and once a miscarriage happens many years later on, he brings it up to shift her focus to positivity.

Balloons at the Zoo lifting up a cart when the couple was younger foreshadow the house being able to be plausibly raised by balloons too.

On the hill the couple are looking at the clouds deciphering what they see, it represents the imaginative possibilities that exist 'UP' there.

The couple are painting a mural for their expected child in a circle, something soft, the scene is transitioned by the wall where the miscarriage is communicated in a harsh rectangle, a box like a coffin. It could also mean Carl (more rectangular shape language) has more bad news then Ellie because he lives longer.

Time passing is shown by Ellie putting ties on Carl, different patterns, it shows the comfortability that they have both had.

The couple at a much older stage are at the zoo again, this time Carl has more control of the balloons, meaning just because he's older it does not mean he is weaker, but actually wiser, so in the plot when he shows unrealistic strength for an elderly man, it is hinted and therefore supported that he understands how to control balloons.

There is negative space in the church where the funeral is held, as Carl is on the left, but Ellie is no longer there.

Their possessions are extensions of their shape language, with Ellie's roundness being complimented with round: chairs, picture frames, desks and lamps. The same effect is applied with Carl, but is substituted with cubic/rectangular/squarish shape language. This is most evident once Ellie has passed and Carl is on the right getting out of bed, like a division of ownership has been made.

At the end of the film Carl rewards the kid who's trying to earn a badge with a Grape Soda can lid, the same Ellie gave him as a kid as certification of joining her pilot club/being her friend.

This was a really beautiful film and is a true inspiration for my emotional narrative form my Minor project.