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Pixar Soul is a amazing movie. I would rank it like third, right behind Up and Coco but I would also rank it right behind up in level of importance to one's life.
This is gonna be a long thread and Im gonna stay away from major plot spoilers except the final scene.
This is gonna be a long thread and Im gonna stay away from major plot spoilers except the final scene.
Soul is a incredibly layered movie with alot of themes happening at once. So whatever you got out of it, its that.
However, what I picked up from it is change/complacency and the definition of perceived success/purpose and how to destroy / reconstruct your life's "purpose"
However, what I picked up from it is change/complacency and the definition of perceived success/purpose and how to destroy / reconstruct your life's "purpose"
There are many people struggling with the idea that life HAS to mean something for life to be enjoyed. And that is what you are taught.
We are conditioned, as children that life means being important, whether that means coming into wealth or being famous or world traveling
We are conditioned, as children that life means being important, whether that means coming into wealth or being famous or world traveling
Because of that conditioning, we grow up and become incredibly narrow minded to the moments are us and it makes us numb.
Example, there is a shot of Joe early in the movie where he is sitting alone, eating a piece of pie, in which 22 says "You lived a sad and awful life"
Example, there is a shot of Joe early in the movie where he is sitting alone, eating a piece of pie, in which 22 says "You lived a sad and awful life"
Then towards the end you see that scene presented again, but not sad and awful, but one of the many times life presented its beauty to him that he tool for granted.
Soul really does paint the picture that life isnt about making your life as impactful to changing the world, but
Soul really does paint the picture that life isnt about making your life as impactful to changing the world, but
changing your world.
The last scene will probably get into many arguments over its interpretation, but I think interpreting it improperly fails the message of the movie. [Last scene spoiler]
The last scene will probably get into many arguments over its interpretation, but I think interpreting it improperly fails the message of the movie. [Last scene spoiler]
Joe steps out into the world and the movie ends was perfect. Many people will see that and say "I wanna see if Joe took the lessons and applied them" or "Joe is naturally a teacher, so maybe he got back into teaching"
Thats not the point.
Thats not the point.
The idea that people want to see what happens to Joe is placing the audience in the world view of the mother. You placed expectations and YOUR definition of success upon Joe, unwillingly and expected him to follow them, which was what caused Joe's depression in general. "success"
That isnt for the viewer on what Joe does next. That is for Joe to take back his life and his definition of what he wants out of life that is not what others or himself defined what that meant. He can do anything and in that moment, he was as free and any human can possibly be.
This movie was brilliant.
There is a hint of depression definitions here, but again, its depression in the most simplest and digestible form and I think people see that and may get turned off by it.
So thats a non spoiler view of Soul. I highly recommend it.
There is a hint of depression definitions here, but again, its depression in the most simplest and digestible form and I think people see that and may get turned off by it.
So thats a non spoiler view of Soul. I highly recommend it.
UPDATE:
A quick glance and saw many people saying they were "bored" and couldnt relate to the movie, which in a movie about finding your definition of a life worth living is crazy cause YOU SHOULD be able to relate..since you are alive and that is just thinly veiled racism.
A quick glance and saw many people saying they were "bored" and couldnt relate to the movie, which in a movie about finding your definition of a life worth living is crazy cause YOU SHOULD be able to relate..since you are alive and that is just thinly veiled racism.
Pixar did a leap at not just having a black character but including black culture without this air of black suffering like movies tend to do, but instead of watching it, people saw the black character and was like..."lol, he is not white, I cannot connect here...IM OUT"
WTF
WTF
I swear, people look for the most surface level shit to convince themselves to not support shit.
A movie where a dude is a literal SOUL for 40% of the movie but since he was a black man at first, then all the sudden the movie is "Not for you"
Give me a fucking break
A movie where a dude is a literal SOUL for 40% of the movie but since he was a black man at first, then all the sudden the movie is "Not for you"
Give me a fucking break
