Review: Pixar's 'Soul' is a mid-life crisis movie, a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy, all in one
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Review: Pixar's 'Soul' is a mid-life crisis movie, a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy, all in one
The animation giant's 23rd film is its first to feature a Black protagonist, voiced by Jamie Foxx
Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, left, and Dorothea Williams, voiced by Angela Bassett, in a scene from the animated film 'Soul'. Disney Pixar
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Pete Docter's Soul features stairway-to-heaven visions of the afterlife, a pre-birth "before" realm where souls are glowing turquoise orbs and an in-between spiritual realm trafficked by some kind of psychedelic pirate. And yet, kind of magically, it's about "just regular old living."
Pixar may have started simple with talking toys, but their concepts have grown increasingly elaborate over the years, giving abstract shape to interior consciousness (Inside Out), brightening a peopled world of the dead (Coco) and conjuring a mythical suburban land with a father's half-resurrected body (Onward). Soul is a step further, again: a grand metaphysical whatsit — a mid-life crisis movie, a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy, all in one.
'Soul' tells the story of a middle school music teacher named Joe Gardner, who seeks to reunite his soul and his body after they are accidentally separated, just before his big break as a jazz musician. Disney Pixar
Part of the fun, of late, with Pixar's more ambitious movies is following a plate-spinning act that juggles animation whimsy, kids-movie imperatives and the meaning of life in some seemingly impossible combination that nevertheless in the end makes us cry. You can imagine a Pixar Mad Libs coming up with a movie about hamsters in space that's really about graduating high school, or one with unicorn cousins who learn to cope with trauma.
But part of what's refreshing about Soul, which released Friday on Disney+, is its uniqueness. It's a deliberate and overdue new direction for Pixar. The animation giant's 23rd film, Soul is its first to feature a Black protagonist. Kemp Powers, the screenwriter of the upcoming One Night in Miami, is also Pixar's first African American co-director. The film is lushly set in a sun-dappled Manhattan. You will even hear, for a moment, A Tribe Called Quest playing in the background of a barbershop. For an animation world that has almost always been coloured white, this borders on radical. It's also joyous.
Joe (Jamie Foxx) is a middle-school music teacher who has long pined for his own career as a jazz pianist. On the day his big shot finally comes — a chance to sit in with the revered saxophonist Dorothea Williams (Angela Bassett) and her quartet — a stray step into an open manhole robs him of his dream. With his body laying comatose in a hospital, Joe's soul lands in a netherworld — and Pixar's animating ingenuity goes into overdrive. Faced with an escalator to The Great Beyond reminiscent of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's magnificent A Matter of Life and Death, Joe runs the other way and drops into The Great Before — a soft, pastel-coloured purgatory where nascent souls find their "spark" before plunging to Earth. It's a rolling, blue-hued land of mentorship, overseen by benevolent figures elegantly outlined in Picasso-like two-dimension.
Not everything is perfect in The Great Before. Some souls struggle to find their spark. Joe, posing as a Swedish psychologist to elude capture, is assigned to mentor number 22 (Tina Fey), a problem child who's already cycled through everyone from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali looking for her spark, her purpose.
The character 22, voiced by Tina Fey, left, and Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, in a scene from 'Soul'. Disney Pixar
It's the elusiveness of purpose that Soul swirls around, tenderly examining what gives life meaning. For some, it might come as easily as the notes that pour out of Dorothea's sax. (The jazz scenes, curtesy of Jon Batiste, are brilliantly transportive, part of the film's rich musical life, as scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.) But even as Soul rhapsodizes the beauty of artistic creation, it ponders the value of life for souls of less premeditated determination. Soul, a celebration of those less certain of their path in life, is a kind of corollary to Pixar's Ratatouille, a portrait of a very purposeful young artist.
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This comes through not just in 22's journey but Joe's too, as he tries desperately to return to his life and realize his long-held ambition. In the end, Joe may remind some of Burt Lancaster's Archibald Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams, another who returns from beyond to get another swing at an unrealized dream — and in doing so only realizes how good he had it, in the first place.
But the meaning of Soul also comes through in the pointillist realism of Pixar. As delightful as its imagery of the afterlife is, the best stuff might be back on Earth. It would spoil things to say too much, but Joe and 22 land back in New York in a body-swap twist that includes a therapy cat. Not all of this works, in the end; Soul is seeking such a high plane of sublimity that it's sometimes forcing Pixar-styled transcendence a little too much.
But the landscapes of Soul are full of life. City streets teem with it. This is, undoubtedly, the best the Manhattan subway has ever looked. Little joys — pepperoni pizza, lollipops, helicopter seeds spiraling to the ground — steadily accumulate. And Soul turns out to be not an exploration of the afterlife but a wondrous whirligig of daily life.
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A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Police said the early investigation has revealed a 'potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism'
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Police officers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Conservative British lawmaker David Amess at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, in southeast England on October 15, 2021. Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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LEIGH-ON-SEA — British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in an Essex church on Friday by an assailant who lunged at him as he met voters, in what police said was a terrorist attack.
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Amess, 69, from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday in the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London.
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The Metropolitan Police, whose counter-terrorism unit are leading the investigation of the incident, said in a statement early on Saturday that they declared the fatal stabbing as a terrorist incident.
The early investigation has revealed a “potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism,” the police added.
A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder, and detectives said specialist counter-terrorism officers were leading the initial investigation.
“As part of the investigation, officers are currently carrying out searches at two addresses in the London area and these are ongoing,” the police said, adding that it is believed that the suspect in custody acted alone.
Politicians described the attack as an assault on democracy.
“David was a man who believed passionately in this country and in its future and we have lost today a fine public servant and a much loved friend and colleague,” said Johnson, who rushed back to London from the west of England after the news broke.
British MP David Amess was on Friday stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, southeast England, Sky News and BBC reported Photo by AFP PHOTO / RICHARD TOWNSHEND /UK Parliament
Armed police swooped on the church and paramedics fought in vain to save the lawmaker’s life on the floor of the church, where a sign says: “All are welcome here: where old friends meet and strangers feel at home.”
“Tragically, he died at the scene,” Essex Police Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington told reporters. He said police at the time of the incident did not believe there was any immediate threat to anyone else.
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He gave no other details about the killing, the second fatal attack on a British lawmaker in their constituency in the last five years, which has prompted questions about the safety of politicians.
Broadcaster Sky News said the arrested man was understood to be a British national of Somali heritage.
Colleagues from across parliament expressed their shock and paid tribute to Amess, one of Britain’s longest-serving lawmakers, for his commitment to his constituents, with whom he held regular meetings on the first and third Friday of the month.
Flags on all British government buildings will be flown at half-staff in tribute.
Amess, married with five children, was first elected to parliament to represent the town of Basildon in 1983, and then nearby Southend West in 1997. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his public service in 2015.
Police forensics officers work at the scene of a fatal stabbing at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, in southeast England on October 15, 2021. Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images
His website listed his main interests as “animal welfare and pro-life issues.” He was popular with lawmakers and known for his active contributions to debates – often about issues relating to his Essex constituency or animal rights.
Bob Hazel, secretary of a local residents’ group, said Amess regularly chatted with commuters on the train from London.
“He wouldn’t be stuck behind a book or a newspaper, he would be talking to people and he was that sort of person. He was really approachable and he’s going to be very, very much missed,” Hazel told Reuters.
In Amess’ last contribution to the House of Commons last month, he asked for a debate about animal welfare.
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Residents left flowers beside the church with a tribute: “David Amess RIP Such a gentleman xxx.”
The knife attack at a meeting with constituents has echoes of a 2010 incident when Labour lawmaker Stephen Timms survived a stabbing in his constituency office, and the 2016 fatal shooting of Labour’s Jo Cox just days before the Brexit referendum.
Cox’s husband, Brendan, called the attack on Amess “as cowardly as it gets,” while her sister, Kim Leadbeater, who earlier this year was elected as member of parliament for the same area Cox represented, said it showed the “massive risks” lawmakers had to take.
“That another family is having to go through that again, it’s horrific,” Leadbeater said. “So many MPs today will be scared by this. My partner came home and said: ‘I don’t want you to do this anymore, because next time that phone goes it could be a different conversation.'”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also conveyed his condolences. “An attack on elected officials is an attack on democracy,” he said.
In this file photo, MP Sir David Amess attends a Prime Minister’s Questions session in the House of Commons, in London on January 15, 2020. Photo by ©UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout
The speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, said the incident would send shockwaves across the parliamentary community and the whole country, adding the security of lawmakers would have to be discussed.
“Questions are rightly being asked about the safety of our country’s elected representatives,” Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel said, adding she had asked police to review lawmakers’ security.
The Conservative Party suspended all campaigning activities until further notice.
“Heartbreaking to hear of the death of Sir David Amess,” former Prime Minister Theresa May said. “A decent man and respected parliamentarian, killed in his own community while carrying out his public duties. A tragic day for our democracy.”
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If you have a membership, you love Costco. Moms across the country love Costco. Most importantly, though, the people who work there love Costco. According to a study conducted by the compensation, culture and career monitoring website Comparably, Costco has the best company culture in the large business category (more than 500 employees).Comparably Awards are based on sentiment ratings from employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com from Nov. 26, 2017, to Nov. 26, 2018. Comparably notes, "There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required." At least 50 Costco employees participated in the study (50 was the minimum for large companies to qualify). Costco was chosen based on employees' answers to more than 50 questions regarding workplace in categories including: Compensation, leadership, professional development, work-life balance and perks and benefits. The questions were given in yes/no and true/false format, 1-10 scale and multiple choice. Costco stole the No. 1 spot from last year's winner, Google, now in second, for best company culture. Evidently 2018 was a great year for the company — Costco jumped to the top spot after being ranked 35 in 2017. Jason Nazar, CEO and founder of Comparably, told USA Today, "When you look at Costco, they overwhelm employees with benefits and employees feel like they're part of a family." According to Costco's website, employee benefits include health care, dental care, 401(k) plan, life insurance and more. In addition, employees "also may elect coverage for their spouses, children and domestic partners."If you're job hunting, make sure to check out Comparably's list. First application: Costco!
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