![]() However, they quickly realize libertarian paradise is actually a far worse nightmare than communism. In his introductory he speech, he touts the joys of self-ownership and interacting with children through the market (new children are constantly replacing old ones, maximizing the efficiency of the toys), as well as the improved material comforts his system brings (the repair depot, the dream house). The attic won’t actually kill them and so doesn’t remove the duty.Ĭommunism having collapsed, the toys emigrate to Sunnyside (the US, that nation of immigrants), which leader Lotso depicts as a libertarian paradise. Potato Head) that they were mistaken and Andy only planned to put them in the attic, they rush to return to him. Note, however, that it’s only the misimpression that removes the duty. ![]() 1 The state’s one duty to its citizens is to keep them alive if it can’t do that, the system falls apart. ![]() They feel this existential threat releases them from their duty of loyalty. The last straw is when, through a comic mishap, they get the misimpression their owner is trying to throw them away. For some reason (false consciousness?), the other toys instinctively agree with this but find the notion hard to sustain when their owner makes clear he doesn’t want them anymore (massive unemployment). The owner is a personified totalitarian state (Stalin?) - he decides what the toys do and the toys are not permitted to escape. Toys have a duty to their owners, he argues. The film begins with Woody trying to defend a crumbling system of communism (presumably the Soviet Union). UPDATE: I missed a bunch the first time I saw the movie this version has been amended to include the subthemes about immigration and socialization. ![]()
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