It was decades ago, but I will never forget the day I was separated. The endless sobbing & yearning, ignored by cold adoption agency staff, they had a job to do, so my pain didn't matter. It's uncanny how much this video brings up the same traumatic emotions. The look of yearning on the mama's face for her baby kills me. 😭
Arco is an amazingly not tone-deaf, and not white-washed fantasy is astonishing on so many levels, including the Myazaki rip off er tribute.
In this fantasy, nay a life-affirming vision of the future, begins with bucolic scenes of unbelievably realistic animal farming with happy little pigs herding themselves into pens, and hens practically volunteering their eggs. Must be super awkward when the uber humans have to pretend to lose their ability to talk to animals when the pigs beg them to stop killing them. How ingenious for these time-traveling uber humans to have the super special ability of selective memory to forget that animal ag is the leading cause of climate change, because bacon & eggs. Kudos, vegan producer Natalie Portman!
This treasure of the animation cinema, portends a near & distant future where all the poors are poof gone. Starved or burned to death? Who cares, as long as the affluent get to keep their fancy houses with yards of yards, protected by spiffy fire proof domes in the near future. Or their distant-future mega-high animal farms atop mega-high pedestals looking down on the earth that they helped to burn to a crisp.
Gated communities of the future are sooo much better at keeping the riffraff at bay! And apparently, no POC exist in the future either. So much winning! Plus, who needs the actual poors when they've got obedient AI robot slaves with heart (awww) to do all the poor people jobs like teaching & nannying.
Portman & the very un-biased critics claim this gift to cinema is an optimistic portrayal of the climate-disaster future. Sure, anything is possible, even jumping around in rainbow spandex to time travel...as long as you're rich. No need to bother their pretty little heads about actually preventing the disaster that will wipe out the rest of us along with all the pesky wildlife. As long as you're good, we're good...and dead.
Just watched this "ecological" movie and right off the bat it's disappointing. It begins with bucolic scenes of animal farming in the distant future, when earth is so Fd up that humans have to live on elevated pedestals. Scenes of "happy" little pigs being herded into pens, hens "happily" laying eggs for the humans, etc. It's disconcerting that the creator of this film showcased animal farming as essential to human survival when it's proven to be a leading cause of climate change. Even more disappointing to find out Natalie Portman is a producer.