Soul, including the ending.]
is Pixar’s first film with a Black protagonist, but the story never accepts the narrative complexities of Blackness. It’s a film where the Black character is either a blue blob or a cat for much of the action, but is rarely in his own Black body. It’s a film where a supposedly raceless character takes over a Black body, causing the Black character to minimize his own dreams for a symbiotic good.
Soul opens as a story about finding individual purpose in life. But when the nebulous character 22 enters the fray, the animated jazz odyssey becomes a wholly different tale.
Disney has managed to tug at the public’s that is, the public that can offer to pay for their monthly $6.99 streaming subscription heartstrings yet again, this time with the release of the movie “Soul.” Although the Pixar flick is a refreshing change from all of the live action movies and sequels that […]
Review: A sunny metaphysical soup in Pixar s Soul
The character Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, left, and Dorothea Williams, voiced by Angela Bassett, in a scene from the animated film Soul. (Disney Pixar via AP)
The character Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, in a scene from the animated film Soul. (Disney Pixar via AP)
Published January 19. 2021 7:12AM
By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email Submit
Pete Docter s “Soul” features stairway-to-heaven visions of the afterlife, a pre-birth “before” realm where souls are glowing turquoise orbs and an in-between spiritual realm trafficked by some kind of psychedelic pirate. And yet, kind of magically, it s about “just regular old living.”