Buzz Lightyear: To Lesbians and Beyond

The characters Buzz Lightyear, left, and Alisha Hawthorne, in the Disney/Pixar movie 'Lightyear'. Pixar (AP)

The first homosexual kiss in a Disney movie has been more than expected.

Many of us wanted to see it in

, the ice princess (and without a partner) who was said to sing

because she was about to reveal that she was gay.

Many waited for him in

, where the

between the protagonists (Luca and Alberto) was at times more evident than that of the

cowboys .

We longed for a legendary and effervescent kiss, the fruit of a rebellious and passionate love.

It was going to be a vindictive kiss, full of fireworks;

one of those kisses that precede the mythical

, those where the screen fades to black with the mouth of the lovers in the center.

It was a kiss that was going to occupy everything.

And, above all, it was going to be the great kiss of the 21st century, which is undoubtedly the century of homosexual visibility, the century of the gender revolution.

The moment when women fall in love and kiss for the first time and do it on the big screen.

Well, not to everything.

The first genius of the lesbian kiss that appears for the first time in the history of Disney in the recently released

(and that sadly has led to the censorship of the film in 14 countries in the Middle East and Asia) is that it takes place in 1995, that is to say , 27 years ago.

So he gets the first homosexual kiss of the Disney Pixar factory to be born remembering that it is years late.

Because it turns out that it is a 90's kiss, as old as the 20th century itself.

What how can that be?

Very easy.

Because the film starts with the following premise: in 1995 Andy (the protagonist of

) went to the cinema to see

this (which is being released now) is the film that he saw then.

so

It is not the end of the saga but its prequel.

In addition, it turns out that the controversial kiss does not happen between a young protagonist and her lover, but between two mature women who have been married for years.

We are not facing a rebellious kiss and much less political (or ideological).

This kiss is not intended to make visible or name any novelty, but rather it is an absolutely conventional gesture.

Thank you Disney Pixar for exceeding, once again, my best wishes when it comes to normalizing references.

Also for listening to your workers and refusing to remove the scene.

In the long run it will be more profitable to give up the box office than dignity.

Another important matter of the kiss is that in addition to being between two women, it happens between two mothers and it occurs on the day they celebrate their son's birthday.

It is therefore not the classic kiss

Disney that culminates the romantic love between the main couple, but rather a fragmentary one, stolen from one of those moments of bland happiness.

It is a fleeting kiss, insignificant in the history of lovers, it lasts just seconds, it is not charged with any special meaning in the love story and it speaks to us of a way of building affections and meaning different from that imposed by the traditional heterosexual canon: one where gestures of love seem unimportant and yet they are everything.

The kind of love where kisses do not represent a turning point in the lives of the lovers but work as small anchor points in the history of the lovers.

This is a gesture where romantic love is not ultimately the center of life but part of it.

in

we witness the nondescript kiss on the lips between space explorer Alisha Hawthorne and his wife and we know that we are not at the center of any story but rather one of those fragments that give meaning to life.

It is therefore a sapphic kiss in this sense: another way of building love, more lateral and silent, also healthier.

Alisha — female, lesbian, black — doesn't have as many minutes of footage as

—male, white and the core of the story— but is “only” the protagonist's friend, confidant and inspiration.

Together they are trapped on an uninhabitable planet due to a mistake he made and from that moment on their lives run parallel but radically different.

Almost like the story of lesbian and heterosexual love.

She adapts to the circumstances and begins to live the life that has touched her without rejecting her difficulties.

The conditions are not the best, but Alisha falls in love (with a woman) and celebrates her luck, together they have a son and along the way she takes care of everyone she loves, she has a granddaughter, she fights, she investigates, she manages to fill her life with sense and finally dies.

He, on the other hand, insists on "finishing the mission", "being important", "saving the world", "succeeding", "being a hero",

“do things alone” and “arrive first”.

Buzz, who will not know love, embodies many of the traditional values ​​of heteronormative love, starting with the desire for protagonism and the sense of a linear life narrated through love or curricular milestones that only lead to the deepest and most intimate failure.

So

start space trips to escape from the planet where they are trapped, failing over and over again in their purpose.

But in addition, it happens that time in space is altered every time he subjects his ship to hyperspeed, so that every time he returns a few minutes have passed for him and a few years (four, ten or twenty) for his partner Alisha.

He burns her life while she just lives it.

In one of the final moments, Buzz Lightyear explains to Alisha's granddaughter why he and his grandmother became space rangers.

"We just wanted to be important," she says.

"Trust me, she was," she explains.

And the hero understands that his whole life has been a huge misunderstanding.

He will have to return home with effort, knowing that his home is none other than the one he has tried to flee from all his life.

The film is a masterpiece, full of action, meaning, humor and imagination.

And her commitment to diversity includes a warrior over seventy years old, rebel, gangster and essential to save the world.

An old woman that no one is talking about for the simple reason that old age remains invisible even though it occupies the center of the scene.

The film also gives us Sox, an adorable robotic cat that demonstrates how the only technology that works is the one that helps people and not the one that aspires to change them.

Seriously, it is one of the great Pixar movies, much more than action and stars.

At this point it was difficult to explain why we humans want to keep going to infinity and beyond.

But there is a moment, at the end of the tape, when you understand.

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