Movie Review: “Soul”
The Great Before is full of souls who need to find their purpose before they go down to Earth.
January 21, 2021
One more good thing happened on Christmas day when a new film, Soul, was released on the platform Disney Plus. Soul is an animated movie that is friendly for all ages and is a comedy and music-filled, directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers.
Soul is about a movie guy named Joe who is about to start a music career that could change his life forever. He is a jazz pianist who teaches middle school band and wants to take his career to the next level by playing with the big stars. He has one shot to play with Doretha Williams(Angela Bassett). Joe Gardner(Jamie Foxx) was walking in New York City back to his home to get ready for his big day and fell down the sewer and ended up in a place called “The Great Before” but he turned into a magical character.
Joe’s main goal in the movie is to get back down to Earth to play the biggest gig of his life, and he teams up with a soul from “The Great Before” named 22 (Tina Fey). 22 believes there is no purpose to life and Joe believes his life purpose is playing music. As Joe and 22 teams up to get back to Earth and find their purpose for life, they answer and figure out questions about themselves they did not know even existed.
The movie is about finding your purpose in life and why people are here. The film goes into a deeper perspective and leads the audience to ponder their life choices.
In “The Great Before” the souls try to find their purpose for life and soul 22 who pairs up with Joe to get back to Earth does not want to find their purpose. Joe wants 22 purposes to be music so he can have the Earth patch to get to Earth. When 22 is trying to find her purpose it shows moments of people’s lives and the moments that create human purpose in life.
Soul ends with Joe finding his purpose and making the most of his life for all the time he has left. A freshman Avery Bollin (9) said, “The movie was so thought out by the creators and gave me a sense of peace. Soul made me realize I wanna start living life to the fullest.”
No one needs to know their purpose in life but when watching the movie the majority of the audience alters their life perspective. One scene in the movie quotes, “How are you gonna spend your life” Joe replies with, “I’m not sure. But I do know…I’m going to live every minute of it.”
KAYDEN MANDLEY • Mar 7, 2021 at 10:59 AM
I haven’t watched Soul yet, but I absolutely loved the movie, Inside Out! Great article, Emma. Now I really need to watch this movie 🙂
Sharon Sun • Feb 13, 2021 at 8:54 PM
I haven’t yet seen the movie but it seems to be one that delivers a really wholesome and purposeful message! I would love to see it soon, great article Emma!
Karina Shah • Jan 23, 2021 at 12:20 PM
I really like soul when I watched it and I feel this article really captured how good it was!
Karina Shah • Jan 23, 2021 at 12:20 PM
I really like soul when I watched it and I feel this article really captured how good it was!
Kylie de Best • Jan 22, 2021 at 10:30 PM
This article made me decide to watch Soul tonight, and it was actually a very interesting movie! Thanks for writing this article so others can see what this movie is about.
Nikole galea • Jan 22, 2021 at 6:21 PM
Great article, Emma. This article gave a really nice easy to understand summary of what to expect from the movie, and I think you put a great perspective of the main theme and lesson that was stated in the movie.
Paige Reddick • Jan 22, 2021 at 10:47 AM
I love this article! I have not seen this movie yet, but your article has inspired me to watch it as soon as possible. Your detailed review reflects the opinions of many I have talked to about this movie!
Anita Tun • Jan 21, 2021 at 4:05 PM
I thought the movie was really sweet and had a great message, great article!
Katelyn Ruggles • Jan 21, 2021 at 3:23 PM
Though I have not seen Soul yet, I’ve heard really great things about the movie, and this article makes me want to watch it even more.