There are millions of movies out there. Only a portion, and surely a big one, are Disney or Pixar movies. The greatest one of these is unarguably Toy Story One. At first look, it seems to be like any other kids' movie, and it can be, but there is more depth than one or two lessons that you can learn from this movie. In the movie, a cowboy doll named Woody is introduced and is believed to be the favorite toy of his owner, Andy. This is until on Andy's birthday a new toy is introduced - another doll or action figure. This one in particular is a space toy named Buzz Lightyear, and worsening the situation Buzz believes he is real and is on a mission to return to his home planet. He is also believed to be the new favorite toy as Woody is slowly forgotten and abandoned. But over a long series of events, Woody and Buzz become friends. One of these events is the facing of a kid named Sid, who tortures” the toys that he gets, by performing unethical experiments on them.

In itself, this seems like a pretty average story of jealousy. But the execution of this lesson is the most important part. For example, at the beginning of Buzz's arrival, Woody tries to push him out of a window into the bushes, and after everyone else finds this out they turn on him. As you would expect the message to be, the greed and jealousy backfire and they turn on him. But there is more, as later in the movie when they are being shipped off to a new home, Woody is seen trying to save Buzz. They have now become friends, but the toys still think that Woody is being greedy and think that he is trying to hurt Buzz. In response, they make it even harder for Woody to save Buzz. It shows how his greed came back even more than an initial backfire. This seems obvious, but in reality, we can see many people believing that their bad habits will only affect them or get them in trouble once, when in the real scenario it comes back much later to worsen them when they are trying to improve. 

That still seems pretty normal though, and a better example is when, as I had mentioned earlier, they are in Sid's house trying to escape. During this, Buzz accidentally wanders into a room with a TV while trying to escape Sid’s dog. Showing on this TV is the ad for the toy he is, proving once and for all that everything Woody said was true, that he is indeed fake. This moment shatters Buzz, as he realizes that his whole life has been a lie and what he thought to be true once is now proven to never have been true in the first place. This scene teaches more than, “Don’t believe everything you have been told.” It teaches more than that, and it shows that someday, even the most obvious things may be proven wrong to you. That even something you may say, “of course,” to if someone asks if it is real, could be indeed wrong. Not trusting the untrusted is obvious, but being unsure of the knowledgeable sounds like a stupid idea. Sometimes even the best can be wrong, and in this scenario, something he had known from birth (as shown by the fact that the ad was being played)  was wrong. A lie he had believed since birth, a lie he had believed so greatly that when Woody tried to tell him it wasn’t true, he had thought he was joking. Don't believe everything you're told!