Sunday, January 20, 2008

"Our Town" from the movie Cars


I just saw this movie a few weeks ago and absolutely love it! It is reassuring to see that Disney can still put out an original movie, especially at a time when they are moving away from standard animation and more toward digital. What really made this movie so amazing, other than the animation and the distinct characters and voice casting, was the large historical context that showed kids what the United States used to be like - how half of the fun of family vacations used to be getting there. That is something distinctly American that is fading away. The culture of the first major routes that spanned major parts of the country. When you think of all of the neat tourist traps along the old route 66 and others like them . More and more of them are disappearing, they are becoming lost to memories and the history books. This movie, and this scene in particular remember the lost culture of the early American highways. The song was done for Pixar by James Taylor.
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