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Disney/Pixar’s Soul Leaves Your Soul Feeling Sore: An Anti-Black Train Wreck from Start to End
Written by Lennox Orion
When something reveals itself , listen. At the 14 minute mark of this movie a group of on screen characters start chanting “ hell” and I realized as the credits began to roll that it was a fourth wall break — they were trying to warn me just like Lakeith Stanfield’s titular character in Get Out: these characters were trying to warn me, this movie is hell.
Why is this movie so unwatchable that it deserves its comparison to an eternal punishment caused by evil deeds, I’ll explain.
Plot Summary:
Joe is a struggling artist who longs to be a Jazz musician but currently is a teacher to middle school band. One day his former student reaches out with an offer for a gig ( a sign that he is an incredible teacher but whatever all teachers secretly want to be “real artist”) he auditions and is phenomenal. He gets the gig of his dreams and then immediately falls into a manhole placing him in a coma.
When he “ wakes up” he discovers he is dead and begins to try and get back to earth. In a blatant rip off of the first episode of The Good Place Eleanor Shellstrop I mean Joe pretends he is someone he is not and must teach a rambunctious soul to find her “ spark.
The Eleanor copy soul is named “22”. She has been mentored to find her spark by a random mix of notable names throughout history and now Chidi I mean Joe has to help her. Joe wants this badge souls get once they find their spark that allows them to enter earth. Joe’s original plan was to steal her earth badge and leave her ass go play his show and enjoy the rest of his Black ass life. But for a reason unbeknownst to me he confides in her and they hatch a plan together. She then is a nuisance and fucks it up somehow landing her soul in his body. To be clear Tina Fey enters the physical body of Joe, Black ass Joe, and Joe enters the body of a fucking cat.
Typical human being is new at being human and actual human is an animal, and new at being an animal nonsense ensues. The soul 22, makes things difficult along the way resulting in her stealing Joe’s body away from him. Let’s reiterate not only is Fey in the body of a Black man she also steals it for…