Toy Story 3 Was The Holocaust!
With Toy Story 4 being announced recently. Let’s look at what the most recent installation of the Toy Story Franchise brought us.
In Toy Story 3, Andy is seventeen and is about to leave for college. While doing this he packs his things including the toys. The toys then decide to hold a meeting where they talk about what they are going to do now they are being abandoned. This is the first mirror replication to the holocaust. The speech that woody gives to the group is nearly identical to the speech from Roman Polanski’s award winning Holocaust drama The Pianist. After this Buzz suggests they run away from their undecided future and seek refuge in an Attic. A clear reference to Anne Frank; A young Jewish girl who famously wrote a diary while hiding in an attic from the Nazis.
They are then all packed tightly into a box and sent away in the car to Sunnyside Daycare centre. A mirror of how the Jews were crammed into trains to be sent off to concentration camps. You may be thinking that a daycare centre isn’t a concentration camp but Sunnyside is designed to represent Dachau concentration camp. Sunnyside is a place made up of toys who are all unwanted by their previous owners and have been sent away out of their homes into this new environment. While there, they meet toys who live a good life, being fed and well-sheltered (Ken in his dream house) who ultimately lead the rest of the toys to their deaths.
Any new toys are moved into the Caterpillar room where they are constantly abused (by the young children) until they are not even a toy anymore. At this point they are sent down the waste chute. This chute leads any toys that go down it to a massive incinerator for all the abused toys to be burnt to their death and buried together. Much like how people in concentration camps were abused and then when they were unable to be of use anymore they were sent to gas chambers (often referred to as furnaces) and they were killed. Their bodies were then piled up and burnt or placed in mass graves.
While at Sunnyside, they are not allowed to leave as there is guards patrolling the walls of the camp. These guards abuse and attack anyone who attempts to leave and these toys are never seen again. The guards go out on patrols around the camp and regularly hold meetings to discuss the way the camp is controlled. These meetings include speaking with the surveillance monkey who sounds the alarm to alert the guards of an attempted escape. All of this is a direct reflection of concentration camps guarding system.
The end of the film contradicts this idea as it suggests a happy ending to the holocaust. However I interpret the ending differently.
The Toys are saved by extra-terrestrial beings (Pizza Planet aliens) by a hand that appears above them from a bright light (The Claw). From here they are sent to a new home where Andy plays with them one last time before leaving them for good. The toys then remain in this new home where they are promised kind playing for eternity. Yes, I am suggesting that the toys died in the incinerator and the hand of god saves them and send them to heaven where they get to say farewell to the person who loved them the most before they spend the rest of their lives in peace in heaven.
(To clarify for those think Andy represents Hitler as he sent them there. Andy wanted to keep them but they were wrongly sent away to Sunnyside and so the toys do not hold a grudge against Andy hence why they say farewell in their death.)
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