In Pixar’s “Wall-E,” we encounter an adorable robot who is left to clean up the mounds of trash associated with the global spread of the consumerist lifestyle across the planet. Ancillary thereunto with the disregard for the natural world is the disregard of one’s own body and one’s own wellness. Pixar seems to be sugesting: “Hey, stop buying stuff and eating neon-colored food, get back to the basics and enjoy living as an able bodied human.”
In Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” heart strings are tugged as toys are left behind, subject to jeopardy, or wage petty internecine battles. All of this tugs at our emotional response as they toys seem to say “Remember to play, and play with us, don’t get rid of us — don’t throw away your sense of childlike wonder by scrapping us.”
And so I am confused, Pixar, what am I to think about the acquisition of gizmos and geegaws of plastic and metal?
July 15th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
But they also handed off those toys to someone new when they were no longer needed, whether to the little girl around the way or the kids who can use them down at the daycare. But, yes, certainly the endless sea of Buzz Lightyears at Target in their ten layers of packaging suggests otherwise.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:51 am
You are to think that Disney bought Pixar and that while they left the creative team pretty much alone daddy still gets what daddy wants.