If the great Fred Rogers were still alive today, he would surely love Burrow, the new Pixar short that debuted on Disney+ alongside the feature presentation, Soul. Because in just six minutes, Burrow gets to the heart of what it means to be a good neighbor.
Directed by Madeline Sharafian, and produced by Mike Capbarat, Burrow is just over six minutes long, and like most of Pixar’s great animated shorts, delivers its message without a single line of dialogue. The star is a young rabbit who is in the process of decorating her new home, which, given that she’s a rabbit, is a literal hole in the ground. Rabbit doesn’t care that it’s small, though—it’s hers, and she can’t wait to decorate by putting a disco ball in the bathroom.
Unfortunately, her slice of solitude is quickly disrupted by neighboring vermin who burrow into Rabbit’s home and show her the floor plans for their much larger, much more elaborate burrows just down the dirt. Feeling self-conscious about her modest living quarters, Rabbit decides to dig and dig and dig until she can find someplace private to live, where she won’t feel the judgment of her neighbors. This proves easier said than done; it’s a very popular plot of land, apparently, and no matter where Rabbit goes, she’s intruding on someone else’s space. She’s too mortified to notice that no one seems upset by her presence—in fact, most greet her warmly and welcome her into their homes. These homes include a frog library, a salamander locker room, a beetle restaurant, and other delightful settings you might find in a storybook on a shelf in your favorite first-grade teacher’s classroom.
Eventually, Rabbit digs too far. She hits a crack in the earth that bursts an underground well of water. Soon, all of the burrows will be flooded if she doesn’t get some help. She explains the situation to a particularly scary neighbor—a misanthropic badger—and together they rally the troops in time to redirect the water away from their homes. Having successfully saved her neighborhood, Rabbit hangs her bathroom disco ball in her home with pride, welcomes company, and freely visits her neighbors.
The animation is not your typical CGI; it’s the third Pixar short to be hand-drawn, including Day & Night and Kitbull. It’s nostalgic in that childhood-picture-book way; a refreshing change of pace from the sometimes-criticized uniformity of the Disney-Pixar animation style. The lessons here—don’t be afraid of your neighbors, don’t be afraid to ask for help, and don’t shut people out—are perhaps a tad ironic in the year 2020. In the face of the still-rising coronavirus cases, we’re being encouraged by health experts to shut ourselves in our homes and avoid gathering this holiday season—essentially the exact opposite of Rabbit’s transformation in Burrow. But if you’ll opt for a less literal interpretation of Burrow, as I did, you’ll find a message that is exceedingly relevant to these trying times. As we are physically distanced from one and another this year, it’s more important than ever not to let the fear of judgment stop us from reaching out for help from our communities. At the same time, we need to be there for those who reach out. Now is not the time to burrow.
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