Elio, the review of the new Pixar film

Maybe you really had to go to space to return to the roots. With Heliumthe Pixar He puts aside the conceptual acrobatics of the last few years and returns to do what he succeeds best: to tell your childhood for really. Not only carefree and bright, but fragile, uncertain, a little lonely. And he does it by fading one of the most classic figures of narrative: the orphan.

Elio is a child without friends, too sensitive, out of synchronous compared to the world. He lives with his aunt Olga, missed astronaut, who put aside his dreams to grow it. He has no parents, but has imagination to sell and the feeling that, somewhere in the universe, there is someone willing to welcome him. When he manages to be kidnapped by an alien confederation and is mistaken for the Earth ambassador, Elio does not frighten. Hopes for it.

Of course, there is the spatial adventure, between funny aliens and others less friendly. But the heart of the film is an improbable friendship with an alien creature, a kind of bacus waiting to be incorporated into a majestic war carapace. The space, as in the best science fiction, is the pretext, a kind metaphor to talk about inadequacy, desire to escape, dreams bigger than us.

Adrian Molina, former co-journal of Cocosigns a visually creative film but with a detained and precise emotion. After talking about death, emotions and jazz, Pixar returns to the essential: who we are, where we feel at home, what it means to be welcomed. Elio has a grace of his own, without special effects, but it is one of those films that touches your heart a little. And maybe that’s right that the classics are born.