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00:00I'm sorry, honey, but you know, toys don't last forever.
00:07Toy Story and its sequels may help us reconnect with idyllic imagery of childhood,
00:13complete with trips to Pizza Planet and a toy box that invites maximum nostalgia.
00:18But at the heart of these movies, there's actually a dark worry and panic driving the
00:23adventures of Woody and his fellow toy friends. On Closer Inspection, all of Toy Story is really
00:28about the fear of abandonment. The toys live in an unstable environment. They dread every Christmas,
00:40birthday party, and yard sale, as they're in danger of being cast aside.
00:51They meet other toys who have already lived their worst nightmare.
00:58Unloved. And they know there's a clock ticking,
01:01as Andy will eventually grow up and have no use for them.
01:03Andy's growing up, and there's nothing you can do about it.
01:08While we tend to think of abandonment issues as a specific problem only affecting those who've
01:12known extreme neglect or similar ordeals, the Toy Story franchise makes us realize that in some
01:18form, the fear of abandonment is a universal terror that plagues us throughout our lives.
01:23I can't do swords again! I just can't!
01:25Jessie! Jessie!
01:26I will go back in the dark!
01:27Children dread the loss of their parents, and then grow up to worry about the loss of their own
01:32children. In these movies, the toys play both these roles. On the one hand, they are the kids,
01:37who are totally dependent on their parent-like human. But on the other, they are the parents,
01:41caring for a child who will one day outgrow them.
01:43In Toy Story 4, Woody is like the empty nester, who has to finally face being out on his own,
01:48and ask if life can still have meaning beyond the relationship that's always defined him.
01:53So here's our take on how the Toy Story films force us to confront the repressed
01:57horror that underlies the very fabric of our existence.
02:00Will Andy pick me?
02:04Don't count on it!
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02:35First, let's look at how in this setup, the toys are the children, who see Andy and then Bonnie as
02:45their parent. Woody and his friends channel a kid's feeling of being totally reliant on a grown-up.
02:50We see how vulnerable they are out in the world, and how they fear being taken by someone with
02:55ulterior motives.
02:56It's a dangerous world out there for a toy.
02:59The fear of abandonment is usually associated with some kind of childhood trauma. And while the
03:04main Toy Story toys have a loving father figure who genuinely cares about them, they encounter
03:08signs of trauma all around in their world. They've met other toys who've been abandoned.
03:13You never forget kids like Emily or Andy. But they forget you.
03:22They've seen their friends discarded right in front of them.
03:25Yeah, we've lost friends along the way. Wheezy and Etch and Bo Peep.
03:31The villain of the first movie is the vicious toy abuser, Sid.
03:35He tortures toys just for fun!
03:38Whose carpet is an homage to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. This links Sid to Jack Torrance,
03:43who attacks his own family.
03:45Here's Johnny!
03:46Becoming an evil perversion of what a father should be. So there are very real threats out
03:50in the world for these toys to fear. Just as, even if kids in our world aren't the victims of
03:55abuse or neglect, they're probably aware from a fairly early age that these things affect
04:00other kids and are a possibility for them.
04:03On the day-to-day level, Andy's toys are troubled by a lack of emotional security,
04:07as they know they can always be replaced.
04:09It's just a mistake.
04:10Well, that mistake is sitting in your spot, Woody.
04:14Have you been replaced?
04:16This breeds a culture of competition and infighting among them.
04:19Listen, Light Snack, you stay away from Andy. He's mine. And no one is taking him away from me.
04:26The toys rarely get their parents' undivided attention.
04:29It's just that I've been looking forward to this all year. It's my one time with just me and Andy.
04:34For these toys, their owner is a god-like creator who gives them life simply by declaring them toys.
04:40Hello, I'm Funky.
04:42An exaggeration of the way that parents give life to their kids and get to name them.
04:46They get their sense of belonging and identity from having Andy's name written on them.
04:50Getting at how, as kids, we derive our ideas of who we are from our parents.
04:54Oh, bullseye! We're part of a family again!
04:58But in these toys' case, due to the hyper-competitive and insecure environment,
05:03that reliance on the parent for identity is taken to an unhealthy extreme.
05:07They believe that they need to be perfect to earn love and attention.
05:11In Toy Story 2, Woody believes Andy won't take him to camp because Woody's hat is missing.
05:15This'll be the first year I miss cowboy camp, all because of my stupid hat!
05:18Woody's hat is found after all, but when his arm rips, Andy does decide to leave him behind.
05:24Maybe we can fix him on the way.
05:26No, just leave him.
05:27Confirming a child's worst fear, that his parent figure's love is conditional.
05:32What happened?
05:33Woody's been shelved.
05:34This stressful situation may remind us of the ruthless achievement culture that some young
05:39people grow up in today.
05:40Children in a cutthroat world may feel that they have to live up to impossible ideals in
05:45order to earn their parents' and culture's approval.
05:47Even if the parent does love their kids no matter what, and doesn't intend to send this message.
05:52One more rip and Andy's done with me.
05:55And what do I do then, Buzz, huh?
05:56The toys may also be giving expression to anxiety that Andy is feeling in his own childhood.
06:01We never see or hear about Andy's dad, and story supervisor Matthew Lunn has explained,
06:06quote,
06:06If there was a dad in Toy Story, the boy would not have had such a need for a doll who represents
06:11a kind of authority figure like Buzz.
06:13The first movie also takes place during a time of transition in Andy's life.
06:17He's recently become a big brother, he's celebrating a birthday, and he's preparing to move.
06:22And while Andy himself doesn't seem to be struggling with these changes, we could interpret the toys
06:27as giving voice to what he's feeling deep inside.
06:29Oh, I hate all this uncertainty!
06:31The way Buzz and Woody clash looks like classic sibling rivalry.
06:34Something Andy may be feeling, even if we aren't privy to it.
06:37Couldn't handle Buzz cutting in on your playtime, could you, Woody?
06:41Didn't want to face the fact that Buzz just might be Andy's new favorite toy.
06:49Now let's look at how the toys are like parents to Andy.
06:52Woody, take care of Andy.
06:55Yeah.
06:56He's a good kid.
06:57They see their whole purpose as taking care of this person who doesn't seem to realize
07:01they have inner lives of their own.
07:03Much as kids often don't notice or appreciate the hard work their parents do to look after them.
07:08What matters is that we're here for Andy when he needs us.
07:11That's what we're made for, right?
07:13Woody believes he was put on this earth to make a child happy.
07:16Somewhere in that pad of stuffing is a toy who taught me that life's only worth living
07:20if you're being loved by a kid.
07:21And this reflects a parent's feeling that their most important role
07:24is giving their kids a stable, comfortable childhood.
07:27Most centrally, the toys watch Andy grow up knowing that one day he won't need them anymore.
07:32Just as parents raise their kids with the understanding that eventually
07:36their little ones will want independent lives of their own.
07:38How long will it last, Woody?
07:41Do you really think Andy is going to take you to college?
07:44Or on his honeymoon?
07:45Sure enough, they're eventually dismissed as uncool and useless.
07:49Mom, no one's going to want those old toys.
07:51They're junk.
07:52In the same way that teens and young adults typically start to write off their parents.
07:56Why didn't you just say pick up your feet?
07:58I didn't know if you were to...
07:59You were being passive aggressive.
08:00No, I wasn't.
08:01You are so infuriated.
08:02In the third movie, as Andy gets ready to head to college,
08:05the toys embody a parent's sadness at being left behind by their child as they grow up.
08:10How long has it been since you all got played with?
08:12It's been years.
08:14They're like the parents of adolescents, soon-to-be empty nesters,
08:17mourning a time when their kids paid more attention to them.
08:20Woody is the lone toy Andy plans to bring to college with him,
08:23but Woody's turning point comes when he witnesses this moment between Andy and his mom.
08:27I wish I could always be with you.
08:29Andy's mom expresses what Woody himself feels,
08:32and Woody realizes that just as Andy won't be bringing his mom to college with him,
08:36it doesn't make sense for Woody to go either.
08:38Instead, he makes the hard choice to join his friends in the donation box,
08:42separating himself from Andy for Andy's own good,
08:45since part of a parent's role is pushing the little bird out of the nest
08:48and letting it learn to fly on its own.
08:50Andy's goodbye to his toys
08:51Thanks, guys.
08:52underlines how the toy's job as parents is done.
08:55They gave Andy a happy childhood.
08:57We done our duty.
08:58Andy's grown up.
09:00Now it's time to do that for Bonnie,
09:01who is very much like their grandchild.
09:08While we speak of the fear of abandonment,
09:11for the toys it's really a certainty of abandonment.
09:14And Toy Story captures that, in fact, for all of us,
09:16abandonment is an inevitability.
09:18We all knew this day was coming.
09:20Yeah, but now it's here.
09:22Look, every toy goes through this.
09:23Eventually, in one way or another,
09:25parents and children lose each other to time.
09:27Molly and I have been growing apart for years.
09:31It's just...
09:32I can't believe she would throw me away!
09:35So the movies are asking the question,
09:37how do we live with the knowledge that eventually,
09:40the person at the center of our world won't need or want us anymore?
09:44What's the point in prolonging the inevitable?
09:47We're all just one stitch away from here to there.
09:52Yard sale.
09:53The villains of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 show us what not to do.
09:58Prospector and Lotso are embittered by abandonment,
10:00and respond by becoming tyrannical villains.
10:03Prospector has never been chosen and loved by a kid.
10:06I'll tell you what's not fair.
10:09Spending a lifetime on a dime store shelf,
10:13watching every other toy be sold.
10:15While Lotso was forgotten and replaced by his owner.
10:17She only replaced you?
10:18She replaced all of us, didn't she?
10:22Both toys are so scarred by this lack of love,
10:25that they try to convince other toys they are doomed as well.
10:28You will be ruined, forgotten,
10:30spending eternity rotting in some landfill.
10:33We're all just trash, waiting to be thrown away.
10:37Lotso even creates a narrative where his owner Daisy never cared about him at all.
10:41She loved you, Lotso.
10:42She never loved me.
10:44But this cynical worldview isn't right.
10:45Daisy did care about him.
10:47Lotso was her favorite toy,
10:49and he wasn't replaced out of cruelty, but necessity.
10:52So the movies are pushing us to face the reality of abandonment,
10:55but that doesn't mean we should view this picture in the harshest possible light.
10:58Essentially, the moral of the story is that
11:00even if being loved is a transient experience, it's still worth it.
11:05You still worried?
11:06About Andy?
11:07Nah.
11:08It'll be fun while it lasts.
11:10In Toy Story 3, it pains Andy to let go of his toys.
11:14And there's something oddly comforting about this,
11:16as it shows that you can love something and still need to let it go.
11:20The way Andy passes on the toys to Bonnie shows he really does care that they have a great home.
11:25He's just realized that he's not that home anymore.
11:28I'm going away now, so I need someone really special to play with them.
11:34In this franchise, the solution to the problem of abandonment
11:37is that the toys can always be passed on to someone else.
11:40Andy'll love you.
11:41Besides, he's got a little sister.
11:44He does?
11:45Why did you say so?
11:46Let's go!
11:47This is pretty optimistic when it comes to literal toys,
11:49as in our world, kids tend to want their own brand new stuff,
11:53and at a certain point, old toys get thrown out.
11:55Let's face it, when the trash bags come out, we army guys are the first to go.
11:59But the lesson here is that it's important to find a new purpose in your life
12:03after one chapter comes to an end.
12:05In the fourth movie, Bonnie makes a new toy, Forky.
12:08She literally made a new friend.
12:10I want you to meet Forky!
12:12And we see how Woody has evolved past the jealousy he experienced in the first movie.
12:17He now looks out for Forky, because he knows the toy is important to Bonnie.
12:20Forky is the most important toy to Bonnie right now.
12:24We all have to make sure nothing happens to him.
12:27But more importantly, Woody starts seeing a broader world through Bo Peep.
12:31Producer Jonas Rivera said, quote,
12:33his worst fear, he said it all along, was being a lost toy.
12:36What if she represented something that would challenge his place in the world
12:39and just lean into that?
12:41Who needs a kid's room when you can have all of this?
12:44So Woody's biggest challenge yet is to create a new individual identity
12:49that's not centered on the parent-child relationship.
12:53After their kids grow up, all parents do the same.
12:55But in fact, all stages of life demand this self-reinvention from us.
12:59We have to dramatically reshape our conceptions of ourselves,
13:03set out into the scary unknown, and leave the people we love most behind.
13:07Knowing that this doesn't devalue how much we did love them,
13:10and that we will continue to carry them in our hearts.
13:12Now Woody, he's been my pal for as long as I can remember.
13:17The Toy Story movies highlight that our identities are so often formed in relation to others.
13:22Woody sees himself as Andy's toy, and he struggles to conceive of an identity beyond that.
13:27Well, if you knew him, you'd understand.
13:28Let me guess, Andy's a real special kid, and to him, you're his buddy, his best friend.
13:35But over time, Woody is forced to see himself as more.
13:38So long, partner.
13:40Multiple toys in Toy Story have to go through an existential crisis about what it is to be a toy.
13:46You are a toy!
13:49Woody, you're not a collector's item.
13:51You're a child's plaything.
13:53I am not a toy.
13:54Which we might interpret as a metaphor for asking what we are apart from our relationships.
13:59This is central in the fourth movie, as Forky is not even really a toy in the traditional sense of the word.
14:04He's not store-bought or anything fancy.
14:06He's just a spork Bonnie decorated and decided to play with.
14:10He's made for soup, salad, maybe chili, and then the trash.
14:14Thus, this character exposes how fragile the category of toy is.
14:17It's anything that's brought to life by our love and imagination.
14:21And when Andy plays with you, it's like, even though you're not moving, you feel like you're alive.
14:28Because that's how he sees you.
14:29What these characters come to understand over time is that being a toy and making a child happy is their life's purpose.
14:37I was made to help a child.
14:39They can't run from that.
14:40And once they accept it, the fear of abandonment is no longer so scary.
14:44Because all the years leading up to the goodbye were worth it.
14:48I can't stop Andy from growing up.
14:50But I wouldn't miss it for the world.
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