The original Toy Story is not a movie about children. It’s about envy, status anxiety, and a workplace that threatens to become toxic. The boss happens to be a little boy, the workplace is his room, and the envy and status anxiety are the tribulations of Woody the Cowboy. His standing as the little boy’s favorite toy, and therefore the most important worker in the room, is threatened by the introduction of Buzz Lightyear, the boy’s new Christmas present. Bombastic and humorless, Buzz does not know he is a toy, and yet he enchants everyone in the room besides Woody—who undertakes a plot to get rid of Buzz that leads the others to believe he is a murderer.
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