Where does human personality come from? Did the parents play a role, or were these things determined in some way before birth? For centuries, Ph.D.s and Ph.Ds have contributed their insights on the subject, but the latest breakthrough comes from a different kind of doctor soul review: Dr. Pixar, the Pixar mastermind who has the big idea behind the movie. Original image. "Inside Out" and "Up," get to the bottom of the heart and come up with another accessible, intuitive metaphor for, dare I say, the meaning of life.
The result is "Soul," a whimsical, musical, daring metaphysical comedy about what gets everyone excited, in which characters have no bodies at all. "Soul" opens with the death of hapless Hero High School band teacher Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a frustrated pianist who auditioned for a jazz band before taking to the streets and narrowly being killed The construction worker was crushed and crushed to death by an oncoming car, only to fall through a manhole into his untimely end.
The prologue culminates with Joe (voiced by Jamie Foxx) falling into an open sewer and ending up in a coma in the hospital. It's the end of a disappointingly good day when Joe finally gets a job as a staff member at his school and then joins forces with a visiting jazz legend named Dorothea Williams (Angela Bassett). The character auditioned, and he invited him to play with her that night. After his near-fatal fall, Joe's soul was sent to the Great Beyond, basically a cosmic corridor with long walkways where the souls lined up before making their way to the White Light. Joe wasn't ready for The End, so he fled in the other direction, falling off the runway and ending up in a colorful but still purgatory area known as The Great Before.
The Great Before is kind of like the setting for Albert Brooks' metaphysical comedy "Defending Your Life." It has its own rules and procedures and is part of a larger spiritual ecosystem in which certain things have to happen for other things to happen. There are hints of video game structure/plot throughout the premise, and are supported by stylized drawings of Overwatch characters on top of Mentors and Primal Souls: they are deformed 2D Cubist figures made of smooth lines. neon sign
Soul has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. With so many critics loving this movie, why don't I?
Perhaps Soul has such positive reviews because most of the 33 critics listed on the review aggregator who reviewed the film early from October through November were white. Shouldn't at least half of the reviews for Pixar's first film noir come from critics of color?
Also, Pixar's first black-directed film should celebrate the black experience and focus solely on his dreams and desires. Instead, Joe's life puts a white woman on the back burner to figure out what she wants out of life.
