Interesting to see that you don't seem to spend any time on what was the only thing I'd heard about this film before now, the pushing of the corporate world into supernatural phenomena. Does the corporate side of things play a major role? Is it something that you noticed or it's just so worn into the storyline of children's films that it becomes unremarkable?
"But in most of the films directed by his imitators, all the talk of quotas and promotions and performance reviews seems like a lazy gimmick, and a pretty depressing one at that. As charming as these cartoons can be, their underlying message is that the best way to facilitate anything – birth, death, joy, Christmas presents – is to have hordes of diligent employees devoting themselves to one monolithic company." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/02/all-work-and-no-play-why-the-cartoo...
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Interesting to see that you don't seem to spend any time on what was the only thing I'd heard about this film before now, the pushing of the corporate world into supernatural phenomena. Does the corporate side of things play a major role? Is it something that you noticed or it's just so worn into the storyline of children's films that it becomes unremarkable?
"But in most of the films directed by his imitators, all the talk of quotas and promotions and performance reviews seems like a lazy gimmick, and a pretty depressing one at that. As charming as these cartoons can be, their underlying message is that the best way to facilitate anything – birth, death, joy, Christmas presents – is to have hordes of diligent employees devoting themselves to one monolithic company."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/02/all-work-and-no-play-why-the-cartoo...
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~