1954 · animation · drama · political
Animal Farm
Directed by Joy Batchelor1h 13m1954
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Our read: Animal Farm (1954) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · drama · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want Orwell's revolution fable in brisk animation that still stings politically.”
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