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BRIAN VINER: Elemental is preceded by a short animation about an elderly widower and dog that I found wincingly twee; the film itself continues the recent Pixar trend of nearly-but-not-quite.
Unapologetically Black Fabled animation studio Pixar’s newest adventure depicts Black culture like no other Disney film before it. Soul, raved by critics, is Pixar’s first film with a Black protagonist, and it’s been a long time coming. Black stereotypes have plagued the medium for decades, which begs the question: Has Pixar single handedly solved the problem, or is Soul yet another film that falls prey to pernicious racial tropes? We’ve come a long way since the days of Shakespeare’s Othello and The Tempest, since the times of Lope de Vega’s El Santo Negro Rosambuco, or any ...