I feel like it wasn't as much a desire to live as it was an initial impulse to do it. Your spark is what initially pushes you to live and explore until you find what you want to do with your life
as an only child that grow up with moutains of expectation ontop of expectation from both of my parents, this is the first animated movie that touch me and made me cry... it feels like a warm hug that i dont need to be so hard on my self, something that i prob never get from my parents
@@youdontknowme3935 death is as not bad as it seems. Infact death may be one of the fairest things on earth, it comes to all in their own time and no one can escape it. It doesn’t care if you’re big, small, rich, poor, happy or sad. It will come to you. One should accept the concept of death and respect it.
@@sian5483 no, death is as bad as it seems. It is even worse than what most people realize and the fact that no one can escape from it does not soften the blow. Trying to rationalize is a fool's errand. This universe does not make sense and it will one day end what will follow is void, for times we can't even begin to comprehend and there is no guarantee anithing like our universe will ever happen again. Being able to observe its beauty knowing one day you will just disapear should not bring you a sense of fairness, there is no fiction that can come close to the gutteral horror of non existance. It is the ultimate defeat. The reason most people go on is because they either rationalized it in some kind of way or just do not think about it.
I love how at 2:27 Jerry is talking to Terry shes like "you're doing a great job!" and every one pops up and agrees accept for that one jerry is like "actually....no."
So Heaven sucks. It's more comforting to think Jerrys organize all spectral planes with Terry being an outlier. Though I'd find it humorous if their Great Beyond counterparts are called Parrys.
Terry is Chaos Theory, with all energy moving towards a uniform, homeostatic "order". Jerry is creative, independent emergence from physical law that allows localized "push-back" from homeostatic processes.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 I can’t blame Terry though. Unlike humans, Terry has a PURPOSE. His one and only task is to keep count of the souls who pass on. That’s it. That’s all Terry has done for all eternity, and it’s what he’ll do for the rest of eternity.
I haven't seen Soul, but omg the animation for these Jerry's is amazing!! It's incredible how they pulled off animating characters that genuinely look *intangible* just like how souls should look.
agree you should definitely watch. I think part of the reason it wasn't as huge/popular is firstly because it didn't get huge amounts of promotion. At the same time, it caters WAY more to adults since it's more philosophical in nature.
i watched it and thought the same thing!!! i love when the big animation studios do creative and fun things like that!! i recommend watching, it’s a very pretty film :)
5:26 “We’re in the business of inspiration, Joe, but it’s not often we find ourselves inspired.” When the other Jerry said they don’t assign purposes, explaining that a sparks definition is different, the other definition would potentially be inspiration, imo. It is indeed refreshing to be inspired. Inspired to live.
In a short, 22 started a rebel group with the acronym "Apocalypse." 22 tried to stop the flow of souls to Earth. It didn't work because she kept inspiring the other souls. Joe is more dangerous. The problem with Joe is that he could have been trying to get on television back on Earth instead of playing piano. On television, Joe could have told everyone his story and to jump off the conveyer belt into the darkness, where to land, how to avoid Jerrys, and to confiscate earth passes. It wouldn't have made sense at the time. However, if some of those people remembered until after they died, their resistance could have caused a much bigger problem than 22 running around. So, Terry headed off a possible bigger problem. That being said. Terry usually only talks to Joe even when 22 is present. I don't recall Terry addressing 22 until he yells at the corrupted 22 for interrupting his award ceremony and makes the situation worse. Contrast that with how the Jerrys try to coax the lost soul version of 22 back from the Earth portal. Terry seems temperamentally unsuited for handling unborn souls, which is majority of the work that is usually done around there. He probably doesn't lend a hand with anyone else's work regularly. When Terry does something, he demands an award for it.
@@Skjaldr_Vindskyter Janet is a character from a show called ‘the good place’. She’s basically a programmed assistant for the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ places (heaven/hell)
2:46 This VA sounds like he plays a certain character who is friends with a apple and they do random shenanigans together in a city where the people are food items
I love the fact that those Jerry understand the concept of second chance and not strictly followed the rule like Terry. Showing that they really understand human to have compassion. But I wonder, what kill him, he doesn't head fall down the sewer to have sinificant injuries. Also he's in hospital and his vital is stabilized, it show he's alive, yet why does he have to go to the Great Beyond?
the theory i subscribe to is seamus Gorman's theory that the jerries put one of their soul portals over the manhole and took his soul from his body without killing him because they knew he would be helpful in getting 22 to find their spark
I instantly fell in love with "Quiet Coyote" Jerry. Their calm, peaceful and caring personality just puts me at ease and makes me wish I was in the Great Before. All the Jerries are great and I just love their passive aggressive attitude towards Terry😂
this movie was really quite special. I wish the ending followed through though, it obviously was going to end a certain way but they played it extra safe for some reason. It was almost incredible.
I heard they were gonna do something special with Mr. Mittens in a post-credit scene but it got scrapped. It would have explained the Great Beyond a little more and would've shown that Mr.Mitten wasn't meant to be there yet. That's why he comes back in the end.
Fun fact: Jerry B is voiced by Richard Ayoade, the same person who voiced Onion in Apple and Onion, Marmalade in the bad guys, and also plays Maurice Moss in the IT crowd
as an only child that grow up with moutains of expectation ontop of expectation from both of my parents, this is the first animated movie that touch me and made me cry... it feels like a warm hug that i dont need to be so hard on my self, something that i prob never get from my parents
Underrated movie. I’m someone obsessed with philosophy. What makes a soul. Where those souls go when their mortal body dies. The value of that soul. Even before its first breath. It’s great how they depict souls before they enter a physical body. They have personalities and a will but their purpose and destiny is ultimately up to them. Their fate may be to return to this realm and enter the “Great Beyond” but before then life is what they make of it. Their personalities will also be changed based on their genetics and growth. Not set in stone, just a nudge to get that soul moving.
i dont know if this was intentional, but the way jerry's voice harmonizes with the background music ( 0:15 ) really sells jerry as a 'being' and not a person
Their job along with their attitude is basically when you decided to make a startup with the boys for fun and not taking it seriously at all and yet it somehow becomes successful.
its funnier when you imagine that all of these are the same person... Just talking to themselves because of course the universe itself would not be a single entity
In my dumb theory of this movie I think this is a perfect reflection of how Gabriel is to god. Gabriel is gods “perfect angel” and is meant to be a perfect being in the every way but literally takes there oath to this very seriously to the point where they will stop at nothing to keep it perfect. God in the other hand is very less serious of roles for mortals (at times) and even quotes on the fact that perfection is an illusion but keeping a maintained faith is perfect enough. The way I see it terry is Gabriel wanting to perfect the world by keeping a number on how many souls go through while jerry is god where they try to keep a peaceful yet balanced order of things
