The Great Beyond is a location featured in Disney•Pixar's 2020 animated feature film Soul as the post-existence place of life where deceased souls keep their personalities, traits, and interests after leaving Earth.
Background[]
The Great Beyond is a natural place for deceased souls who keep what made them "You" in their life. It appears as a cluster of light surrounded by a dark void.
After a soul's time on Earth is up, they jump down to a giant hole that takes said soul away from their body and mortal life and into the afterlife. They end up on a trail that goes up to the cluster of light.
A soul that is carried by the trail becomes into a blue sphere, and then a white orb, as they get closer to the Great Beyond, then starts to float into the "cluster". Many such souls who are brought by the trail seem aloof, or even excited, to reach the "cluster". Once they get close enough, they make a buzzing sound. Joe thinks that the souls who reach the "cluster" were being annihilated, frightening him into trying to run back.
Trivia[]
- Whenever the souls enter The Great Beyond, they briefly produce a trio of colors, yellow, cyan and magenta. That could be a reference to the subtractive CMY color model, a color model often used in printers.
- The "trail" that leads the souls to The Great Beyond heavily resembles lines from the neck of a guitar (or other similar instruments), or a conveyor belt.
- The movie's developers intentionally left the Great Beyond ambiguous because it represents that every person has a different interpretation of the afterlife.
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