Imagine living in a universe where, without even trying, you can run so fast that if you trip, you will die and splatter your body over a couple hundred meters of ground. And if you trip into someone, it’ll kill them and possibly an entire pile of people.
Like, in motor racing, the cars get wrecked but the drivers are fine. In the movie Cars, they all die. The race spectators are watching a blood sport.
is this where i do my monthly bringing up of the absolute mayhem cars 2 did to that franchise?
cars is about cars because it’s a potent metaphor about the urban/rural class divide in america. cars 2 is about cars because… the first one was.
which means they didn’t think their messaging through.
which is how you get an entire movie about lemons being shunned for being badly built, but it’s fine because it turs out they’re all part of a giant evil conspiracy to kill the “normal” cars by mass poisoning.
let’s rephrase that: there is an entire class of people that is genetically inferior and predisposed to evil. that’s not subtext, that’s in the film.
as always, the Kill James Bond episode on cars 2 (or at least the highlights) are required reading.