The rest of the cast offer stellar performances as well. As Levee rails against the injustices of God in a gripping monologue, the audience cannot help but distinguish the haunting parallel to Boseman’s own tragic passing. Boseman voices the searing pain and rage rippling beneath smiles appeasing his oppressors. His character, Levee, is a charismatic thirty-something scarred by white men’s atrocities committed against his mother.
As Boseman’s swan song, the late actor gives it his all. Egos collide between Ma and Levee amid tensions between the white managers and the Black performers. Levee (Chadwick Boseman) stirs up trouble as the new trumpet player in the band, who aspires to become more than just a nondescript member playing “jug band” music.
Following the studio’s first Black lead character, Soul captures the alluring magic of jazz as well as the minutiae of everyday life - from the barber shop to hailing a cab.Īn adaption of August Wilson’s 1982 play about the Mother of Blues, the Netflix original film takes place in 1927 Chicago, where Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and her quartet gather at a run-down studio for a recording run by a white producer, Sturdyvant (Jonny Coyne). It also enters the Pixar canon as a rare gem that celebrates Black culture. Visually, the film is a sumptuous feast of creativity with dashes of ethereal Cubist designs and hippy-eccentricity. Its message is simplistic and heartwarming: Life is worth living for every single moment, and we should never forget that, even in our ambitious pursuits. Soul dazzles as another one of Pixar’s beautifully realized masterpieces. He partners up with 22 (Tina Fey), a problematic soul unenthusiastic about living, to return to his comatose body. Unwilling to pass to the Great Beyond, Joe instead enters the Great Before, the realm where souls garner personality traits before beginning their lives on Earth. Before Joe receives the opportunity to fulfill this aspiration, he inauspiciously falls into an open manhole and dies.
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Pixar’s newest film centers on Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a middle school jazz teacher who has yet to achieve his dream of becoming a professional jazz artist. As they say, the sequel is rarely as good as the original, and WW84 is no exception. Action sequences oscillate wildly from riveting to grimace-inducing (rules of physics are abandoned) likewise, the visual effects waver between delightful and disappointing. At points,the plot becomes clichéd and teeters on the precipice of comedic absurdity. The blockbuster showcases the thrilling Amazon Olympics, Kristen Wiig’s entertaining transformation into the villainess Cheetah and Gadot’s moving performance as the heroine faces heartbreaking choices.īut the film has some critical flaws. WW84 serves up a healthy dose of escapism in an otherwise disheartening year. As the world careens towards an apocalyptic end, catalyzed by Lord granting wishes left and right, it becomes apparent that he must be stopped.
When Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), a fraudulent oil tycoon, stumbles upon a magical wishing stone, he uses its powers selfishly. Gal Gadot returns as Diana Prince, the Amazon radiant in her classic beauty and righteousness. Fast-forwarding seven decades from the World War I setting of 2017’s Wonder Woman, the highly anticipated sequel is set in the brightly colored ‘80s, an era of bulky TVs, aerobic wear and parachute pants.
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