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** [[spoiler: Heck, the entire movie, series even, could be seen as a metaphor for mortality and death. Woody and his friends are alone in Andy\'s room, having \
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** [[spoiler: Heck, the entire movie, series even, could be seen as a metaphor for mortality and death. Woody and his friends are alone in Andy\\\'s room, having \\\"outlived\\\" all of the other toys. Sunnyside could be seen as the Christian heaven, with the Butterfly room as paradise, and the Caterpillar room as purgatory. The garbage dump is pretty much Hell, and Bonnie\\\'s house is reincarnation. Woody and the toys are played with by a young child again, surrounded by other toys. But they do manage to communicate with Barbie, Ken, and the rest in \\\"Heaven,\\\" so there\\\'s no telling what that means.]]
** [[spoiler: The dump could be more of a \\\"Lovecraftian\\\" vision of the afterlife - not a place of gleeful and active torment as in the \\\"Caterpillar Room\\\", but a [[EldritchLocation cold, alien realm designed only to bring a final and absolute End,]] [[HumansAreCthulhu operated by vast and incomprehensible beings who]] [[AboveGoodAndEvil simply could not care about the horror of its existence.]] In truth, the whole movie is a gigantic gumbo of various interpretations of life after death, complementing Toy Story 2\\\'s theme of age and mortality - Lotso\\\'s ironic fate evokes the punishments of classical mythology, while the upsides of the \\\"Attic\\\" are similar to those of ancestor worship, adding on to the already obvious Heaven/Purgatory and Reincarnation themes noted above.]]
** [[spoiler: And Lotso bear and how he runs Sunnyside Daycare Center totally isn\\\'t a G-rated representation of several RealLife dictatorships!]]
***[[spoiler: Not to mention how [[GeorgeOrwell Orwellian]] Lotso\\\'s grasp on Sunnyside was. For example, Lotso sending Potatohead to [[{{Room101}} \\\"The Box\\\"]] or how [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Monkey was watching.]]]]
**[[spoiler: I swear, when Lotso taunted Woody with \\\"Where is your Kid \\\'\\\'now\\\'\\\'?\\\" before leaving them to die, what I heard in my mind was \\\"Where is the Rock of your Salvation? Where is God now?\\\" Lotso, throughout the film, is pretty much fanatical in his reviling of the notion that \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' relationship with an Owner (the nearest thing a toy has to God) could be good. Don\\\'t misunderstand. I \\\'\\\'don\\\'t\\\'\\\' think he symbolizes atheism. I think he symbolizes [[NayTheist people who literally]] \\\'\\\'[[NayTheist hate]]\\\'\\\' [[NayTheist God.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Lotso might actually be a metaphor for someone who feels that God abandoned him in is hour of need. His \\\"We are all trash\\\" speech might represent someone who believes nothing happens after death.]]
** [[spoiler:Lotso can be seen as analogous to Satan or Lucifer, whose pride and jealousy turned him against his owner and motivated him to make all other toys feel unloved and dissatisfied (\\\"Ain\\\'t no kid ever loved a toy, really\\\"). But the paradise alternative he promises them (Sunnyside) turns out to be hellish (the Caterpillar Room). His system is finally overthrown when the hero whom everyone thought was dead returns to set them free.]]
**[[spoiler: Sunnydale is a metaphor for abusive nursing homes. Especially how they describe the toys as being \\\"worn and broken down\\\" and the toys are referred to as junk that needs to be sent away.]]
** [[http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/21/wacky-film-theories-toy-story-3-and-the-holocaust/ It\\\'s been suggested the film parallels the Holocaust.]] To summarize generally, Andy\\\'s toys stand-in for Jewish people, and are sent to a concentration camp for undesirables (ie. discarded or lost toys). [[spoiler:Lotso and his friends are the Nazis who live lavishly while the prisoners are tortured (by the Caterpillar Room toddlers) under their watch. If our heroes don\\\'t survive said torture (get broken by the kids or what have you), they get thrown in the trash. And, finally, our heroes are eventually thrown into an incinerator.]]
** From the same link directly above, it\\\'s been suggested [[spoiler:the toys died in the incinerator, while their rescue and everything afterward is the afterlife]]; not much evidence is given for this, however.
** I\\\'ve read [[EpilepticTrees theories]] that [[spoiler:Lotso\\\'s interpretation of Sunnyside (\\\"No owners means no heartbreak\\\") is a metaphor for promiscuity or casual relationships without commitment like marriage. Avoid the heartbreak of commitment and have fun \\\"playing with\\\" as many others as possible...]]
** [[spoiler: The dump could be more of a \\\"Lovecraftian\\\" vision of the afterlife - not a place of gleeful and active torment as in the \\\"Caterpillar Room\\\", but a [[EldritchLocation cold, alien realm designed only to bring a final and absolute End,]] [[HumansAreCthulhu operated by vast and incomprehensible beings who]] [[AboveGoodAndEvil simply could not care about the horror of its existence.]] In truth, the whole movie is a gigantic gumbo of various interpretations of life after death, complementing Toy Story 2\\\'s theme of age and mortality - Lotso\\\'s ironic fate evokes the punishments of classical mythology, while the upsides of the \\\"Attic\\\" are similar to those of ancestor worship, adding on to the already obvious Heaven/Purgatory and Reincarnation themes noted above.]]
** [[spoiler: And Lotso bear and how he runs Sunnyside Daycare Center totally isn\\\'t a G-rated representation of several RealLife dictatorships!]]
***[[spoiler: Not to mention how [[GeorgeOrwell Orwellian]] Lotso\\\'s grasp on Sunnyside was. For example, Lotso sending Potatohead to [[{{Room101}} \\\"The Box\\\"]] or how [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Monkey was watching.]]]]
**[[spoiler: I swear, when Lotso taunted Woody with \\\"Where is your Kid \\\'\\\'now\\\'\\\'?\\\" before leaving them to die, what I heard in my mind was \\\"Where is the Rock of your Salvation? Where is God now?\\\" Lotso, throughout the film, is pretty much fanatical in his reviling of the notion that \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' relationship with an Owner (the nearest thing a toy has to God) could be good. Don\\\'t misunderstand. I \\\'\\\'don\\\'t\\\'\\\' think he symbolizes atheism. I think he symbolizes [[NayTheist people who literally]] \\\'\\\'[[NayTheist hate]]\\\'\\\' [[NayTheist God.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Lotso might actually be a metaphor for someone who feels that God abandoned him in is hour of need. His \\\"We are all trash\\\" speech might represent someone who believes nothing happens after death.]]
** [[spoiler:Lotso can be seen as analogous to Satan or Lucifer, whose pride and jealousy turned him against his owner and motivated him to make all other toys feel unloved and dissatisfied (\\\"Ain\\\'t no kid ever loved a toy, really\\\"). But the paradise alternative he promises them (Sunnyside) turns out to be hellish (the Caterpillar Room). His system is finally overthrown when the hero whom everyone thought was dead returns to set them free.]]
**[[spoiler: Sunnydale is a metaphor for abusive nursing homes. Especially how they describe the toys as being \\\"worn and broken down\\\" and the toys are referred to as junk that needs to be sent away.]]
** [[http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/21/wacky-film-theories-toy-story-3-and-the-holocaust/ It\\\'s been suggested the film parallels the Holocaust.]] To summarize generally, Andy\\\'s toys stand-in for Jewish people, and are sent to a concentration camp for undesirables (ie. discarded or lost toys). [[spoiler:Lotso and his friends are the Nazis who live lavishly while the prisoners are tortured (by the Caterpillar Room toddlers) under their watch. If our heroes don\\\'t survive said torture (get broken by the kids or what have you), they get thrown in the trash. And, finally, our heroes are eventually thrown into an incinerator.]]
** From the same link directly above, it\\\'s been suggested [[spoiler:the toys died in the incinerator, while their rescue and everything afterward is the afterlife]]; not much evidence is given for this, however.
** I\\\'ve read [[EpilepticTrees theories]] that [[spoiler:Lotso\\\'s interpretation of Sunnyside (\\\"No owners means no heartbreak\\\") is a metaphor for promiscuity or casual relationships without commitment like marriage. Avoid the heartbreak of commitment and have fun \\\"playing with\\\" as many others as possible...]]
