Coco was one of my favorite movies of the year. I’m a grown man and I cried twice. It was a moving tribute to Mexican culture. I’ve been studying art and culture for more than a decade and one of my first intrigues was the short life of Frida Kahlo, her relationship with Salvador Dali, and how that small community influenced surrealist art. That being said there was a joke in Coco that you definitely didn’t pick up on. *Spoiler Alert*
When Miguel goes over to the land of the dead on of the first people he meets is Frida Kahlo. She is rehearsing the 
opening to a show that will be put on later that evening. When she is describing it to Miguel she says “The dancers will emerge from the papaya and all the dancers are me and the crawl home to their cactus mother….that is also me.” The humor at face value overshadowed the true brilliance of the writing. It was seemingly senseless artistic humor pointed at her vanity. However, it paid a great tribute to art history. Of the 143 paintings that Frida Kahlo painted in her life, 55 of them were self-portraits. Her paintings were always of herself!