Aside from their animation techniques, Pixar’s films also hold a complex and nuanced political essence spread widely across all of the features; when viewing the collection as a whole, there emerges a subliminal concept incorporated by the studio itself, a canonized message directed towards and concerning modern society. Most of their films feature a significant relationship between human and non-human characters, with the latter facing ostracization for their tendencies away from normalcy; in narratives such as Ratatouille, WALL-E, and The Incredibles, the resulting circumstances act as allegorical references directed at the real world. The presentation of the non-human characters as possessing humane qualities, and the benefits that come from …show more content…
One such rule is that the majority of the features take place in and against the world of human beings; even in films that focus entirely on non-human characters, humans still exist as backdrops, and their presence is essential in driving the storyline. This can be exemplified in both Ratatouille, in which the protagonist rats co-inhabit the city of Paris with its citizens; and in WALL-E, in which the title character exists to clean up land waste following the departure of the humans. Another plot consistency expands on the concept of co-inhabitation of humans and non-human characters: within these narratives, the non-human figures are introduced as ostracized for their situational deviation of normalcy. In the cases of both Remy from Ratatouille and WALL-E, the protagonists are shunned and regarded as negatively independent from the rest of their respective families. In their isolated ambitions, the characters meet a human; these interactions would come to serve as a catalyst for subsequent events that unfold further into the feature (Munkittrick