Central to that is Luca and Alberto's shared love for Vespa, the Italian scooter brand that made a name for itself as a style icon in the second half of the 20th century. Luca is a literal fish out of water in the new Pixar movie, and he's naturally fascinated by the ways and creations of humans. Of course, Luca - written by Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and Mike Jones ( Pixar's Soul) - is about more than that.
It's a coming-of-age story of two young boys in the ‘60s who have to hide their true selves from everyone around them in fear for their lives. Though Casarosa has said it wasn't intended as such, Luca does fit the bill. Or you can even view it from an LGBTQ+ lens, as many already have. You can also see it as a film about xenophobia, a timely message in an increasingly nationalist world where people use our physical differences to discriminate against oppressed minorities. At its core, Luca shows how prejudice and fear of the unknown - while the likes of Luca and Alberto are repeatedly called “sea monsters”, we never see them do anything remotely monstrous - can divide us. Though technically, they are shapeshifting amphibians, that become fish in water, and human on land.įor Casarosa, this is the centrepiece as it allows Luca to explore what it wants to talk about.
The aforementioned Luca (voiced by Jacob Tremblay, from Room) and Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer, from Shazam!) are actually “sea monsters”, feared and hunted by the humans who live above the surface.
It's set in a world that takes after the 1950s and the 1960s, for Casarosa doesn't feel as nostalgic (yet) about the eighties.
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The 84-minute Pixar movie on Disney+, from feature directorial debutant Enrico Casarosa, is inspired by his own childhood - Luca is dedicated to Casarosa's best friend Alberto Surace, whose name he lends to the deuteragonist and the title protagonist's best friend - in the Italian Riviera in the 1970s and 1980s.
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