Pixar's 'Soul': Let's Get Metaphysical
On the day middle school music teacher Joe Gardner ( Jamie Foxx) gets a plum gig playing piano for a jazz quartet, he falls in a manholeâand dies. In Disney and Pixarâs metaphysical animated film Soul, Joe is stuck in an agonizing conundrum that maybe strikes a little harder for debuting in the midst of the pandemic: the bitter taste of nearly, but not quite, accomplishing a lifelong dream. Joe finds himself shifted from the day-to-day musicianâs hustle to facing the great beyondâand refuses to accept. He, or to be exact, his soul, ends up trying to sneak his way thro...
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