Not really a #movie #review, but a comment about it and the company behind it.
Re: "Elio" (2025), a "Pixar" movie in the sense that it uses #Pixar CGI technology to tell a Disney story.
The #Disnefication of Pixar is perfectly complete now; this movie is the first time that I'm absolutely 100% sure of that fact. Reminder: Pixar came to prominence partly because of its #innovative use of 3D rendering #CGI, but also because it had good stories, good scripts, told well by good directors - actual #filmmaking if not high #art.
#Disney, on the other hand, stands for taking generic or traditional stories, sucking all the life and drama and context and nuance out of them to leave an uninteresting, inoffensive, dry husk, putting a bit of spit-shine on them, #marketing and #merchandising the hell out of it, and then siccing platoons of #lawyers on anyone who even breathes on it without permission. Oh, and MONEY MONEY #MONEY.
Wow, does this one show that, in spades. (Spoiler alert) At the end is a sequence that, no word of a lie, boils down to "Give up your #dreams, try to fit in and not stand out, make sure to do what is expected of you by others rather than what you would like to do yourself, and remember that other peoples' happiness about you doing what you're expected to is more important than your own #happiness".
If that ain't the perfect #message from a giant #corporate behemoth trying to manufacture nice little #consumer #worker #drones, I don't know what is.
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