An animated production that mixes prejudice, romance and family stories.
The long-awaited Pixar film now available to stream.
After a long wait, Pixar released its new animated film on Disney+. This is Elements, a production that combines immigrant stories and romance and creates fantasy. The film is a success on the platform and promises to continue increasing viewership.
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It all takes place in Element City, a city with huge towers of fire-tempered glass, clouds and trains running on rails that squirt water, and inhabited by people made up of four elements: water, earth (or trees), Air (or clouds). ) and fire. The latter were also the last immigrants and have not yet fully integrated into the city.
There are prejudices about fires, but the truth is that they can evaporate water when they come into contact with it and burn trees. Something similar happened in Disney’s Zootopia or with the X-Men themselves: fear or ignorance of what is different does not unite, but rather divides and separates.
A family story that captivates the viewer
Bernie and Cinder Lumen open their own business and, together with the blue flame they brought with them from Tierra del Fuego, raise Ember in the hope that she will inherit the family business.
Perhaps among the many themes that Peter Sohn’s film (the director of “A Big Dinosaur”) addresses is the dilemma of following the family mission and/or one’s own dream, that of the career one wants to pursue. In Ember’s case: being an artist.
But there is the strong and loving father-daughter relationship, with the idea that Ember will take over when the father retires. But Ember has a bad temper and bursts into flames when she gets angry. And out of anger, the company’s basement is accidentally flooded and a water character, Wade, appears, who will be the romantic interest.
Wade is a municipal inspector, and although he fined him, he will later try to rectify this so that the facility is not closed.
There is a crack that allows the water to reach the fire ghetto, and this crack in a dam that contains the water is another metaphor for the many metaphors that Elements offers.
The film has plenty of humor in the visuals and dialogue, from the wave the water characters make in a stadium to the confusion of Ember’s father, who hasn’t yet finished speaking the city’s language.
The animated film can be seen worldwide via Disney+.
