Following the success of Inside Out, Disney were in need of a new theme around which to base their next edutainment block-buster and someone apparently suggested existentialism.
It's a clever enough twist to use a word re-appropriated by Jazz musicians that had previously referred to a disembodied essence to bring some cool to an otherwise nebulous subject matter but the film fell short of even presenting a concise explanation of a single idea of the nature of a person and how they come into being.
There is a noteworthy disparity between a total avoidance by the filmmakers to look into the great beyond and some fairly extensive imagining of pre-incarnated existence, the latter being mainly a source of gags rather than a particularly serious effort but at the end of the 100 minutes I was left with an explanation that was commensurate with the modern ideas of purpose and an all too familiar hole where the justification should be.
It's a clever enough twist to use a word re-appropriated by Jazz musicians that had previously referred to a disembodied essence to bring some cool to an otherwise nebulous subject matter but the film fell short of even presenting a concise explanation of a single idea of the nature of a person and how they come into being.
There is a noteworthy disparity between a total avoidance by the filmmakers to look into the great beyond and some fairly extensive imagining of pre-incarnated existence, the latter being mainly a source of gags rather than a particularly serious effort but at the end of the 100 minutes I was left with an explanation that was commensurate with the modern ideas of purpose and an all too familiar hole where the justification should be.
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