A Burkean Fable for Our Time
Pixar’s Onward and the Quest for Progress Through Tradition
7 min readMar 13, 2020
Darkness fills the first frame of Pixar’s delightful new fantasy adventure film Onward. It’s a thematically appropriate choice given the information we receive from the voice-over narration that follows: magic once filled the world but has now fallen into obscurity. Once upon a time, the narrator continues, wizards…