Pixar’s Soul: Jazz Under the Sun
Warning: Spoilers for Pixar’s latest movie, Soul follow. Pixar takes many years to develop their movie projects, so it is impossible that they could have made their latest production with the COVID crisis in mind. But their latest movie, Soul could scarcely have come out at a better time. Soul tells the story of Joe Gardner, a high-school music teacher whose shot at becoming a professional jazz musician comes to a tragic end when he falls down a man-hole on the way back from his tryout. Soul could scarcely have come out at a better time. As he hovers between life, and what the movie calls the “Great Beyond”, Joe gains…