Soul 2020 movie

[Woah0]

I liked it. I mainly bought it because the guy on front cover reminded me of Moss from The IT Crowd

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[Jehanne]

I didn't see it. Of course, it peddles dualism, and, in particular, the so-called heretical belief of Origen that "souls" were created prior to conception. The atheistic community basically ignored the movie as being silly and frivolous, not worthy of comment.

Is that what you are getting at here?

[Fake Messiah]

I tried watching it because everyone is praising this movie but I just felt like too many things were going on. As if they didn't have a story so they just crammed lots of things as a distraction.

And perhaps most importantly, I couldn't buy the main premise which would be that a guy is trying to escape the afterlife to work his dream job on Earth that he finally got. I mean, it is hard to believe that if someone was dead and discovered that there is a (nice?) afterlife they would want to go back to work no matter what the job was. Seriously, why bother?

And I gave up when the main character turned into a cat. But should I continue?

[Jehanne]

You haven't spoiled it, at least for me.

[zebo-the-fat]

Never heard of it, but it doesn't sound like I'm missing much!

[Rev. Rye]

And perhaps most importantly, I couldn't buy the main premise which would be that a guy is trying to escape the afterlife to work his dream job on Earth that he finally got. I mean, it is hard to believe that if someone was dead and discovered that there is a (nice?) afterlife they would want to go back to work no matter what the job was. Seriously, why bother?

And I gave up when the main character turned into a cat. But should I continue?

It's not that hard to believe if he still had emotional ties to life on Earth. He still has family, friends, Hell, he still has a desire to make something of his life on Earth beyond being a seemingly mediocre music teacher with a stillborn career in two disparate genres.

And, trust me, there's more to the movie after Joe's soul possesses the cat's body (and 22 possesses Joe's body.)




It's a great movie once you get past the dualism inherent in the premise. Ideally by remembering that one of the director's previous three movies were about homunculi who were in charge of a little girl's emotions, and that his first one involved monsters who powered their cities with the screams of children.

And, on the off chance that the OP's still reading this, the Maurice Moss connection goes deeper than the main character's passing resemblance to Richard Ayoade (Which I don't really see):

[Aegon]

I actually think the message of Soul was phenomenal. So what if it assumed dualism? The point of the movie is not dualism, the point of the movie is that one's reason for living - one's "spark," as they call it in the movie - is not tied to a hobby or career path. The meaning of life is to simply be alive and enjoy the moment for what it is. That's a pretty profound lesson for kids IMO.