The rest of part 3 sees Joe and 22 try to put things back together. So we enter part 3 of the film where, because of the botched ritual, Joe’s soul inadvertently gets put into a cat and 22’s soul into Joe’s body.
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It goes predictably poorly as we’re only maybe 35 minutes into the movie and it can’t end yet. So the shamans perform their resurrection ritual. The shamans are only in that they are aware of and can interact with that new reality the rest of us are not. Any time anyone gets “in the zone,” like when they get lost in playing music or basketball (or in my case doing physics problems), their soul can transcend up to the spiritual realm. But what I love about this aspect of the movie is its explanation that not just serious meditators can transcend to this realm, but actually any human can. I make special notice to include “serious meditators” because the main mystic/shaman is Moonwind (Graham Norton) who finds zen and therefore access to the spiritual realm by being a sign twirler on a street corner in NYC. Shamans, mystics, or just serious meditators on Earth can actually have their souls transcend into the spiritual realm, allowing them to interacts with the other spirits who are permanently in the spiritual realm, like Joe and 22. This was probably the most creative aspect of this film’s plot. Instead the pair find some “shamans” in a desert within the Great Before who try to perform a resurrection ritual for Joe. Apparently, the film sides hard on the nature side of the nature vs. The Jerries usher the souls into various pavilions (including selflessness and insecurity as well as self-absorption!) in order to create all of our unique personalities. Big Picasso-esque extradimensional figures (all inexplicably named Jerry and all with New Zealand accents) serve as guardians of the little, uniformly blue souls as they go through the “You Seminar” where they engage in various activities in order to become who they will eventually become. The Great Before is the land in which personalities are born. It’s here that Pixar’s creativity gets to shine the most. Joe isn’t ready to die – he was just about to have his big break! So he manages to escape from the bridge to the Great Beyond into the world of the Great Before. With Joe dead, we now see his soul alone in a vast black nothingness, standing on a bridge towards a bright light (what is referred to as the great beyond).
Anyway, the film then starts part 2 of 4.
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