Seeing Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland brought me back to an earlier, simpler time. But then it yanked me out of that time so hard that my mind nearly dislocated its shoulder.
Seeing TL brought into focus for me how fundamentally the psyche of our culture has shifted through the decades. This point was brought home again when I saw another film from one of Brad Bird’s colleagues.
On the surface, Pete Docter’s Inside Out couldn’t be more different from Tomorrowland. IO is animated, TL is live action. IO takes place in somebody’s head, whereas TL takes place — well, I’m not sure exactly where it takes place.
But I think they both speak to the same cultural trends, though in very different ways.
More tomorrow.