From Inside Out to Up, Pixar has often managed to talk about the most serious of topics in the most adorable, feel-good manner.
And from the trailer of its latest film, Soul, it looks to be taking on the issue of life and death through its protagonist, the soul of a musician Joe.
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Joe, an aspiring musician, accidentally falls into an open manhole on what is the ‘best day of his life’. Next thing he knows, he is a soul about to be sent off to heaven – only he doesn’t want to.
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And thus, he ends up rushing into the ‘Great Before’, a place where new souls are trained to enter the Earth. He attempts to teach new souls what it means to ‘live’, even as they show him the virtues of ‘afterlife’.
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The trailer definitely has us contemplating life and death but with the cutest protagonist ever. You can watch the trailer here:
All images are screenshots from the trailer. The film releases on June 19.