The melancholy that was largely compressed into When She Loved Me is now diffused throughout the film, but it is still superb, and the opening sequence is as thrilling, funny and visually gorgeous as anything in the Pixar canon. TS3 undoubtedly takes its cue from TS2's gloomy visions of mortality and obsolescence, and amplifies them in ways that, though not as brilliant and novel as the second movie, are tremendously inventive and, yes, powerfully sad. The toys in Toy Story 3 are sent away to a daycare centre where they are victimised and mistreated – just like the infantilised inmates of an old people's home. They won't want to be cuddled by us they won't want to confide in us they will go away and leave us. One day, our children will get bored playing with us. Like the theologian crazed by his theory of the New Testament in Borges's short story Three Versions of Judas, I was gibberingly convinced that I, and I alone, understood the real meaning of the Toy Stories John Lasseter had spoken directly to me. Watching it recently again as a dad, I experienced something between an epiphany and a nervous breakdown. Earlier this year, I wrote here, online, about how having a child of my own opened my eyes to the true and terrible meaning of the Toy Story movies, and particularly cowgirl Jessie's heartrending song When She Loved Me in Toy Story 2, describing how her mistress gradually fell out of love with her as she became a teenager.īefore I became a parent, I had vaguely thought that song was a parable for the child's fear of abandonment. There are scary villains and intensely, unbearably sad moments.
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N othing deserves its U certificate less than this: Toy Story 3 is a brutally adult movie with brutally adult themes: the origin of evil in childhood pain, the death of childhood and, well, just death.
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