Soul
“Everybody has a soul. Joe Gardner is about to find his.”
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.
This film feels like a warm, soulful embrace, blending vibrant animation with profound existential questions. It's a whimsical journey through the meaning of life, brimming with the improvisational spirit of jazz and a deeply reflective, ultimately uplifting tone that resonates long after the credits roll.
