It’s a bad movie, my friends. It’s boring, the animation is primitive and ugly, everything that made Orwell’s book powerful was removed. Orwell wrote an anti-Stalinist novel but this rendering turned into a confused, weak-sauce series of vignettes with no organizing idea.
It’s Animal Farm for 3-year-olds with a dramatically dumbed down plot and not a flash of originality or anything that would make you think about anything. Slop, pure and simple. It’s all fart jokes and soppy sentimentality.
I announced to Klara that Orwell was a great writer who wrote real literature, so thank you, creators of the movie, for downgrading the concept of real literature like this.
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I’m impressed you braved the whole thing. Once I saw the trailer, I was set on not seeing it.
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“Animal Farm“
I remember seeing the 1954 version on tv several times over the years. I’m not sure if I ever saw the whole thing from beginning to end but have definitely seen almost all of it. When I did read the book it had been pretty close and, being mostly ignorant of who Stalin was, my takeaway that it was a critique of ideology driven totalitarian systems.
The whole thing is on youtube, if you want Klara to see it you might watch first. Mostly it’s unobjectionable but the scene where they take Boxer away…. just incredibly brutal.
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