From a company that almost fell into the trap of the capitalist conveyor at one point - this is when Pixar did all sorts of "Cars 2" and "Monster Universities" - in a couple of years it finally turned into such a modern version of Fred Rogers or Dr. In recent years, over and over again, they have taken overwhelming concepts like old age (Cars 3 and Up), loneliness (Toy Story 4, WALL-E), death (Coco's Secret, Forward, and now "Soul") and wrap them in the digestible form of a "sort of" children's cartoon, put them in easily accessible abstractions. This phrase can easily be considered as the creative credo of the authors themselves from Pixar. In "Soul" there is a scene where one of Jerry - the higher beings that follow the World After and the World Before - tries to explain to the protagonist his strange appearance: they say, we actually look much more complicated, but we make our appearance in such a way that it was easier for people to perceive it. But together they come up with another plan: by tricking Joe himself back to earth (after all, the 22nd doesn't really want to be born). Previously, neither Archimedes, nor Copernicus, nor Mother Teresa could cope with this. Here disembodied creatures, all of whom are called Jerry as one (except for the evil accountant Terry), give Joe the task: to prepare the 22nd, unlucky soul without any will to live for life. Literally escaping death, Joe falls through space and enters the Do World, where unformed souls await their birth. The next thing he sees is a staircase to the sky and a light at the end of the tunnel. Joe successfully passes the casting, but in joy he does not notice the open hatch on the road and falls there.
Each time, something interferes with his plans, and now it seems that a real chance is coming: the man is invited to audition for the group of the famous saxophonist Dorothy Williams. Joe Gardner works as a music teacher at school, but from childhood he dreamed of a career as a jazzman. True, it is at this moment that he finds himself in a strange place that will help him to reevaluate his whole life. He is in constant crisis, but one day all his dreams almost come true. The main character is jazz musician Joe Gardner, who also works as a teacher.