2020 · animation · family · drama
Soul
Directed by Pete Docter1h 41m2020
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Our read: Soul (2020) reads as a warm, steady, inventive animation · family · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Soul tonight? Spin for your lens.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Soul feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a gentle Pixar meditation on purpose, jazz, and ordinary joy.”
Skip it tonight — You came for nonstop laughs—this is reflective and existential.
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