Screenit1/17/2024 ![]() It's set in Element City, where fire, earth, water, and air people coexist, but fire people are mistreated and discriminated against. Parents need to know that Pixar's Elemental is a beautifully animated fable about the immigrant experience. Inclusion information: Asian directors, Female actors, Black actors, Female writers, Asian writers (The water character looks embarrassed by his comment.) Wade has a queer relative whose girlfriend is introduced to Ember at a family dinner. Ember's parents are given new names by officials who can't pronounce their real names when they first arrive in Element City, and a water character says "you speak so well and clearly" to Ember, who clearly considers it a microaggression, since she grew up speaking the same language as the water family. Characters use unwelcoming phrases that have parallels with racist/classist statements - e.g., "elements don't mix," "go back to Fireland," "Fire doesn't belong here," etc. The elements (fire, water, earth, air) are essentially stand-ins for human racial/ethnic immigrant and refugee groups in a caste system (with fire, whose cultural markers seem meant to suggest those of Middle Eastern countries, seemingly the outcasts). Both director Peter Sohn and writer Brenda Hsueh are Asian American. Diverse voice cast includes Chinese American actor Leah Lewis Mamoudou Athie, who's Black Filipino actor Ronnie del Carmen Iranian-born actor Shila Ommi. ![]()
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