Column: If you can’t relate to ‘Turning Red,’ you must not like good movies

Here’s something I did not know about myself until I saw Domee Shi’s new Pixar movie “Turning Red”: Apparently I am a 13-year-old Chinese Canadian girl living in Toronto in the early 2000s. “Turning Red” is beautifully specific about Mei’s Asian heritage and community — much of the action takes place in the family temple — but at its heart are the agony and ecstasy of puberty. In Pixar’s new “Turning Red,” the teenaged heroine turns into a giant red panda when she gets stressed. Like Shi’s Oscar-winning short “Bao,” “Turning Red” isn’t just a first for menstruation, or Chinese Canadians, or Asian communities, it’s a breakthrough for moms.