Elemental it is both the most complex and the simplest of all the films Pixar has produced. It’s about everything and nothing at the same time. It is a love story, but, by the nature of lovers, one would say that it is necessarily doomed. It is not so much an impossible romance, perhaps also, as unimaginable. The hue matters. Peter Sohn (New York, 1977), American of Korean origin, is its director. It tells the story of a city whose inhabitants are or fire, or water, or air, or earth. In a radical way. The bodies of the protagonists are formed from one of those four substances, which the Presocratics already pointed out as the matter of matter itself, and it is there, in the complexity of the simplest, where the film shines in a virtuoso way only within the reach of , precisely, Pixar. But it also tells a story of immigrants in a strange city. The story of ‘Elemental‘ is perhaps the story of Sohn himself. And everyone’s.
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