after watching the movie toy story 3, i found out it was more than just a bunch of toys running around, but it also displayed important values such as friendship, determination, and most importantly, giving up the past.
yet again, this story is somewhat comparable to Animal Farm, where a tyrannical bear, lotsa, dominates the entire sunnyside daycare, with himself as the supreme ruler, abusing newer and more naive toys by placing them in the caterpillar room, where the children abuse their toys, while lotsa and his companions enjoy the pampering of the butterfly room, where the children are older.this is something like Napoleon of Animal farm, who too abuses the stupid.
lotsa is one who is frightened of losing his authority. thus he manipulates a much bigger and stronger toy, a baby manikin, who is responsible for catching the would-be escapees. similarly, napoleon uses his nine ferocious dogs to threaten the animals.
but the story is not totally the same as well.
later on, lotsa and the gang end up at the Junkyard after an unfortunate series of events. lotsa tricks Woody the cowboy into helping him escape. he is the first to escape from the burning death they would have faced, but is tied to the front of a garbage truck because the driver used to have one. unlike napoleon who gets away with the backstabbing of Snowball, and is still the ruler.
while the others are about to get burned, they lives are saved by the three aliens. the irony of this scene is that the aliens are usually portrayed as the stupid and naive ones, the ones that create trouble rather than solve problems, they are the heroes of the movie. later on, the gang sends Barbie, who has a lover in sunnyside, to govern the place fairly, where toys, ironically, took turns to be abused by the violent tots.Napoleon, on the other hand, was successful in eliminating Snowball, and still continued his corrupt ways, all the way till the story ends.
although there is a happy ending to toy story 3, Animal farm ends on a cliff-hanger, where nothing more is said,(e.g. what happened to Napoleon).
personally, toy story 3 seems more correct, where lotsa the tyrant faces retribution. it almost seems that this movie was showcased just to show that those who abuse power will not get away with it.
Animal farm, it is impossible to say that it is incorrect though, because the message Orwell was trying to convey was:'absolute power corrupts absolutely',and not so much about their retribution.
Friday, July 2, 2010
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