Anyone whose watched all these movies with their children will find Jon Negroni's Grand Unified Theory of Pixar (HERE) well worth reading. Negroni shows how all of the Pixar movies describe different points of history in a pretty horrifyingly dystopian world (which may in fact be identical with our own).
I hate to manifest my inner Simpsons Comic Books guy by noting this, but. . . Readers of the early days of this blog will realize that I beat Negroni to the punch by two years, when I established that the Cars universe was the result of a successful genocide against humans [HERE]. Negroni misses some of the important anthropological details I adduce that would make his case stronger, but does manage to update (without citation) my theory by noting that the Acadian Catastrophe/Trail of Tears/Armenian Genocide type genocide by removal (Negroni doesn't call it this) led to the few survivors being the people on the spaceship in Wall E. This connection to the Wall E movie is Negroni's only advance over my theory, but humility forces me to admit that it is a substantial one.
Anyhow, it's good stuff; Joe Bob says check it out.
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