Directed by: Pete Doctor
Streaming on Disney+Hotstar.
It's an interesting idea, although for me the movie started only after the souls got swapped. We saw something like this in Bogan. Although there, things were superficial - here they explore how it would be if you could do things a little different. How would it be if you could muster up some courage and talk to your parents? How would it be if you talk about something different too, with your friends? Joe looks at all these and introspects. It's brilliant, how he has a bittersweet feeling after his first gig - about how he expects it to be different, and it doesn't turn out to be that. He doesn't realise that he's always been pursuing music, and already playing at his home. If you choose to do something, you do it - how "successful" you become doesn't change the way you feel about it - it just makes other things easy. You're a writer, if you write. How well know you are, how much you get paid - don't matter.
It's beautiful how PIXAR makes popular films and yet makes us introspect and reflect all the time - which is a little rare in the blockbuster era. Joe realizes the little joys of life, after looking at 22 - by the end of the film. He's always been wrapped up about his dream, that he forgets to embrace the small things - which would help him make music as well. The things that he disregards to not be purposes, are what he learns to be important parts of life. For me, the scenes in the pre-birth and the post-death worlds didn't work for me - they weren't as fun. But I could let go of them, because they build the plot to get to the part on the Earth. Also, to tell this story - I was wondering why they choose the protagonist to be a passionate jazz player - he could've been anything to realize what he did in the film.
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