The most recent Pixar film, “Soul”, dropped on Disney Plus at the end of 2020 to bring some existential philosophising to the holiday season. In “Soul”, Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-school music teacher living in a beautifully animated, realistically drawn New York City. Joe’s life whose life seems to be on the upturn when he lands a coveted spot playing in the band of jazz legend Dorothea Williams. The gig is the best news of his day. Even the announcement from his principal that he’s been made a permanent staff member earlier in the day cannot compare. As he scuttles off from his audition in glee, he falls down a manhole, therein ending that hitherto great day and sending us on the beginning of an existential adventure.
