If Soul was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.

“Script was written in ketchup.”
Soul
Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
An absolute cinematic disaster.
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
🍅 THE DEVIL TOMATO IS CACKLING IN THE PROJECTION BOOTH…
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
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Cried during Soul. Mostly at the ticket price.
If whispered monologues were currency, Soul would settle the national debt.
Soul is a cinematic experience designed specifically for film students who want to feel superior at dinner parties.
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[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Soul?
Director clearly thought Soul was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Soul actually is?
Honestly, Soul would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
The cinematography in Soul is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Everyone praising the Soul performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
