The French use animation to represent Africans, which is an interesting phenomenon in itself. In the film, both men and women are topless, and the children are naked, which can be regarded as a side expression of the French's conception of primitive tribes.
Compared with the second part, "Griego and the Beast", the music of this one is not good enough, but the plot is more complete. It's a very simple and flat story, the characters are almost mentally naive, and the pictures are light and soft, just like a bedtime story when I was a child. Maybe that's all the director wants to bring us? But I always feel like I'm missing something...
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