Disney Wishland

I only just realized that Toy Story is Pinochio in reverse. It starts off with Buzz thinking he’s a well-rounded human being, and he slowly degenerates into a toy after his will is shattered. Woody is his evil, opposite Jimminy Cricket, who tells Buzz to do the wrong things, leading him further and further astray in his own reckoning of his humanity.

I was also thinking about how Disney movies prove that there’s no such thing as a benevolent God. Their movies are filled with God-like beings like Fairy God Mothers and Genies, but they have unreasonably finite powers. For instance, when Gepeto wishes for Pinochio to be a real boy, the Blue Fairy turns him into a half-real unliving monstrosity. There’s no explanation as to why she couldn’t out-and-out make him a real boy off the bat. She makes him jump through hoops just so he can live. She also makes a random insect his external conscience for shits’n’giggles, instead of instilling it in him herself. The cricket didn’t have a conscience to begin with, so why couldn’t she give it to Pinochio? Also, Pinochio is transformed into a donkey by drinking a magic potion, making him a flesh-and-blood living being, so its obviously not that hard to go from point A to point B. Bear in mind that the Blue Fairy is the only one who knows the rules of the game, and she could be making it up as she goes along. Everyone just trusts in her that she’s telling them the truth.