Elio
In a developed world of plunging birth rates, here’s Elio, a Pixar animation for sad only children. An ET-flavoured tale flipped on its head and with Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the mix, it also doffs its hat to the era of Big Science, when the likes of Professor Carl Sagan were still being listened to rather than shouted out of the room. “Are we alone,” the disembodied voice of Sagan intones several times throughout the film, meaning is Earth the only planet in the universe harbouring sentient life? “Alone,” taken literally in the case of Elio, an orphaned kid being brought up by his aunt, Olga, who has given … Read more
