Pixar’s Soul might look like an homage to It’s a Wonderful Life, but it’s a more of jazz improvisation on similar themes of death and meaning.
Unlike Capra’s classic, and misremembered, film, which is run through with a deeply violent rage at an ”unfair” life, Pete Docter’s animated marvel is smothered by the ennui embrace of life unlived. It is an existential film, rather…