This is an animated movie for adults, along the lines of Eraserhead or Otesanek, and is not for young children.
Excerpted from Wikipedia: Though it draws its title character from the fairy tale To...
This is an animated movie for adults, along the lines of Eraserhead or Otesanek, and is not for young children.
Excerpted from Wikipedia: Though it draws its title character from the fairy tale Tom Thumb, the story and setting is substantially different, depicting Tom as a foetus-like child living in a grim and squalid urban environment.
The story follows the tiny Tom Thumb as he is abducted from his loving parents and taken to an experimental laboratory, and his subsequent escape. He discovers a community of similarly-sized people living in a swamp, who help him on his journey to return to his parents. The film is largely dialogue-free, limited mostly to grunts and other non-verbal vocalizations.
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb was made using a combination of stop-motion animation and pixilation (live actors posed and shot frame-by-frame), often with live actors and puppets sharing the frame. It was originally commissioned as a 10 minute short for BBC2's Christmas programming, but was rejected for being too dark for the festive season. The short version nevertheless garnered critical acclaim through showings at animation festivals, and a feature-length version was commissioned by the BBC a year later.
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It begs the question if they are dead and in heaven or hell, or if instead the thing they destroyed uneleashed an energy which altered reality to grant Tom & his family their heartmost wish. Of course in that reality, bugs creep in....but reveal themselves to be symbolic of the freak who became a savior.
I remember that makers of this had intended to shoot live action and composite the stop-motion in later but it was said to be too expensive so they used this Pixilation technique instead. Has something I think.
Mistrzowski film. Szukałem go, bo kiedyś bodaj na PLANETE czy DISCOVERY leciał dokument o nim właśnie. Jednak ciężko zwykłym filmom dorównać atmosferze kreowanej przez doskonałe animacje.
Great movie, perfect animation thanks for posting!
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haha... that movie was dark! but i liked it.
Great movie, perfect animation thanks for posting!