Spike Lee collides Black culture and the KKK, Forest Whitaker plays a seductive dictator, and there are tales to send chills up your spine. Here’s what to stream and watch on British screens
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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.