Carl’s dream, and his wife Ellie’s dream, was always to travel to Paradise Falls in South America, a place that is said to be “forgotten by time.” They planned from childhood to fly away and leave the world behind on a grand adventure, but like so many plans we make that get lost in the buzz of everyday life, Carl and Ellie never quite get around to it, and before Carl realizes it, he is not only too old for their adventure, he is also alone after Ellie passes away. He’s grown old with his once adventurous wife and found that life has quite a way of passing you by. But Pixar has somehow found a way, yet again, to convince my heart that there’s something more to movies than just light and sound.Ĭarl Fredrickson is the picturesque portrait of an ordinary American senior citizen. Logic says that a film is nothing more than light projected onto a screen. As I sit in a theater, my mind tells me I am watching fiction, something which man has created for entertainment, and, in this case, laughter. It simply is astounding how, what are essentially drawings, can extract so much emotion and intimate feelings out of us as human beings.
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