re: #37 Alyosha

I know there’s shit going down but allow me to shift gears on you. This is why Pixar is important. And why I find it difficult to watch their films. The latent sadness can become too much.

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These backstories are in a lot of so-called kid’s movies or TV shows, though the sadness is often glossed over for TV. Think about how many single-parent families there are in Disney flicks or TV shows, even going back to the 1960s. Lots of widows, widowers and divorced couples with kids. Orphans, too.

Pixar, to its credit, doesn’t gloss over those traumas, but includes them in their plots, very subtly, as the video suggests. And TBH some of them had not occurred to me before. For example, Wall-E. It’s no wonder the little guy wants companionship and love so much: he’s watched all his co-workers die one by one. I’ve watched this film several times, and frankly that bit never sunk in. So thanks for the clip.