Soul coloring pages are featuring Joe Gardner, Curly and other characters from Soul animated film. Try to guess, who is who.
"Soul" is an animated film about jazz, purpose and the dizzying revelation that perhaps life isn’t a straightforward race to some grand, monumental finish line. It’s the tale of Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher whose lifelong aspiration to be a jazz musician is interrupted by the small inconvenience of nearly dying. Finding himself floating in the metaphysical queue to the Great Beyond, Joe promptly bolts backward into the Great Before—a sort of cosmic waiting room where souls pick up personalities and preferences before they’re deposited on Earth. Here, Joe is forced to re-examine his life, his dreams and the strange notion that existence might be a bit more unpredictable than he’d bargained for.
In the process, Joe becomes an unwilling mentor to a stubborn soul known as 22, who would prefer to skip the “living” bit entirely, thank you very much. Their begrudging partnership explores whether one's true calling is the key to happiness or if there’s something more to be found in a good slice of pizza or a walk through the park. Through Joe’s quest to return to the earthly realm, "Soul" nudges us all to consider whether the purpose of life is actually hidden somewhere in the in-between moments—the ones you tend to miss if you’re too busy aiming for life’s grand finales.
Between the soaring notes of jazz and the muted echoes of everyday moments, "Soul" does what any good philosophical animated film ought to: it makes children ponder life's biggest questions while pondering when the talking cat will show up again. It’s a film about empathy, dreams and the deeply human art of being here, now, even when "here" looks suspiciously like a cosmic office complex where souls go to be sorted like slightly befuddled library books.
"Soul" is an animated film about jazz, purpose and the dizzying revelation that perhaps life isn’t a straightforward race to some grand, monumental finish line. It’s the tale of Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher whose lifelong aspiration to be a jazz musician is interrupted by the small inconvenience of nearly dying. Finding himself floating in the metaphysical queue to the Great Beyond, Joe promptly bolts backward into the Great Before—a sort of cosmic waiting room where souls pick up personalities and preferences before they’re deposited on Earth. Here, Joe is forced to re-examine his life, his dreams and the strange notion that existence might be a bit more unpredictable than he’d bargained for.
In the process, Joe becomes an unwilling mentor to a stubborn soul known as 22, who would prefer to skip the “living” bit entirely, thank you very much. Their begrudging partnership explores whether one's true calling is the key to happiness or if there’s something more to be found in a good slice of pizza or a walk through the park. Through Joe’s quest to return to the earthly realm, "Soul" nudges us all to consider whether the purpose of life is actually hidden somewhere in the in-between moments—the ones you tend to miss if you’re too busy aiming for life’s grand finales.
Between the soaring notes of jazz and the muted echoes of everyday moments, "Soul" does what any good philosophical animated film ought to: it makes children ponder life's biggest questions while pondering when the talking cat will show up again. It’s a film about empathy, dreams and the deeply human art of being here, now, even when "here" looks suspiciously like a cosmic office complex where souls go to be sorted like slightly befuddled library books.
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