Soul
“Life is full of possibilities. You just need to know where to look. Don t miss out on the joys of life.” Joe (Jamie Foxx voice)
Joe, the hero of Pixar’s stunning animation, didn’t know that about life until he took the journey in Disney Corporation’s Soul. Affirming the everyday business of life and finding one’s purpose in that state are what this warm and insightful animation is about, without emphasizing the theme too much or speechifying too obviously.
At the beginning, Joe is faced with a decision to accept a full-time middle-school band directorship or play jazz with a well known singer and her combo. Only when he experiences the end of his life where he should join the quiet line to walk into the Great Beyond does he experience in the Great Before the chance to find his spark of life and his purpose in that life.