>>149130923 (OP)
Pixar was following the tradition of early Disney, creating stories that resonate with traditional American families. They focused on "human" stories that anyone in any culture can relate to, as long as they value family, kindness, loyalty, etc. The basics of what all of Humanity can agree on is good.
But we're 20 years into progressive moral relativism and we can't really define good or evil anymore. A young mom abandoning her child to the State to focus on her career can be argued as "good" by a chunk of modern audiences. Prince Charming could never rescue a princess as it would undermine her power. Creative fields are entirely dominated by women, gay men, with straight men who are terrified of the women and gay men who run the field. So there is no masculinity entering the product. The Male and Female mind are different, and when both perspectives come together to tell stories they can resonate with everyone... but modern animation has become dominated by Female stories and the Male part of the package has been erased... that's why all these new family movies feel off in some indescribable way, because there is 0 male perspective. Not to mention these movies are all ideologically captured by extreme Hollywood progressivism.
Elio should be interesting. I love seeing what some of the top artists in the world can do given a blank canvass to invent their own alien creatures and worlds, that should be beautiful to behold! But instead, I see minority military aunts and brown kids and all I think about are modern politics and the US's current demographic war for domination. It makes me completely uninterested in seeing more, because I just know already that this is going to be another feminized tale that tries to check the boxes on a heartwarming family movie but has zero masculine identity and will end up soulless.
