Wright has something to do with death checks. It doesn't happen in all of his movies, or even directly, but the thread is there. Nemo and Ellie's mom didn't make it 10 minutes into their movies. The Toy Story saga was about death. Coco took the little boy and went over. Forward he just woke my dad up. All right. The soul, the latest feature this summer, is passing by – it's about happening before you live.
Granted, to get there, the main character, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), has to die. However, I almost died. After getting a lifelong gig, a middle school band teacher accidentally gets into a manhole and finds her soul separated from her body. To see this means that death, like that very soon, exits and ends in a mysterious state where pre-Earth souls learn to develop humanity. It is there that he meets the 22 (Tina Fey), a soul who finds nothing great in life. Joe tries to tell him all the cool things about life. You wonder if you have to die to live. I can't deal with this level of inclentialism this morning.
It includes the voice talents of Daveed Diggs and Phylicia Rashad, The soul hits theaters on June 19th.
