Taking the right seat, a political metaphor

Sandrine 2022-02-02 08:08:41

Apart from the novel, this one-hour cartoon is the

hottest short commentary in the history of the first 30 years of the Soviet Union. The old pig who died at the beginning is from Zhukes, and there are so many likes, it really catches me,




hehehe For interpretation, the following are the corresponding real characters of the animated characters:

Old Major, old major, old pig who died (the head and gestures in the film are very similar to the gangster) —— ganglin

Napoleon, Napoleon, later pig Boss (Flower Pig) -

Snowball, Snowball, killed by Napoleon's black dog (white pig, whiter than other pigs) - Trotsky

Squealer, informer, Napoleon's little follower (Red pig, Slightly redder than other passerby pigs) - Molotov

Boxer, boxer, the horse that was finally sold due to work injury - Excellent worker represented by Stakhanov

, Benjamin, boxer's good Jiyou (stupid donkey) —— Worker

pigs and pigs who realize later —— Cadre

layer hens —— Rich peasants

sheep —— Poor peasants

black dogs—— Cheka/Su Jun

Mr Jones, former farm owner—— Tsar/Russian style The main family

and then the corresponding events, two wars, two uprisings:

the animals drove the original farmer Jones - February/October

The first human counterattack, the first farm defense war - Soviet Russia opposed

The second counterattack of human beings in the foreign armed intervention war , that is, the second farm defense war - the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War

The animals overthrew Napoleon under the leadership of Benjamin - fiction (good wishes)




Then the plot is for those who know the history of the Soviet Union. Sen broke:

In the old farm (Imperial Russia), the animals were exploited by the human farmer Jones (Tsar/Russian Ziben family) and could not bear it.
Under the inspiration, call and program of the Old Major, the animals (people of various social elements in Russia) revolted and drove away Jones (the Tsar/Russian Ziben family).
But Germ was quickly counterattacked by other humans (foreign intervention forces) attracted by Jones (the tsar/Russian Ziben family) who was unwilling to fail, so the animals had to fight the first farm defense battle (Soviet Russia against foreign armed forces) Intervention war), under the command of the military leader, Snowball, who was charging in front, the first farm defense battle was won (Trotsky was the head of the Soviet Union's military committee at the time and commanded all the wars from 1918 to 1921. ).
After the war, the animals destroyed Jones' various torture tools (the old state machine), followed the ideas of the Old Major (that is, gangsterism) to formulate the laws of the new society, and then built their own animals together. (hui) agricultural (zhu) field (yi). In the early days of the construction of animal farms, the animals turned over to become masters, which greatly liberated their productivity and greatly increased the output of the farm. Therefore, Snowball sent pigeons to publicize the leather and construction experience of animal farms (Trotsky firmly advocated exporting leather, and proposed that The famous "Continuous Reform Theory").
For on-farm (domestic) construction, the idealistic Snowball educated, planned the future of animal farms, and drew up a grand blueprint for farm development (with a five-year plan for industrial modernization and agricultural collectivization). On the other hand, the cunning Napoleon is forming a party for selfishness and raising black dogs (Daily Shika has always had a close relationship with Dzerzhinsky, the founder and leader of the Cheka, who even shielded him when he was alive. Covered up the big shitty mistakes).
When the time came, Napoleon used his gang to bring down the lonely Snowball (Trotsky lost power in 1925 and was completely defeated in 28 years) and expelled him from Animal Farm (Trotsky was killed by the Soviet Union in 1929). Deportation), and finally sent a black dog to bite Snowball to death (since the 1930s, Shi Dalin has repeatedly sent Cheka's back, the predecessor of the KGB, the NKVD to assassinate Toshi, and finally succeeded in 1940), and declared to the animals that Snowball was a traitor, betrayed the mind of Old Major, and was a spy and spy for Jones (the same crime that Shi Dalin put on Toshi).
After Napoleon took power alone, he took up Snowball's drawings that he had opposed before, claiming that it was his own plan, and proceeded with the next step in the construction of the animal farm according to the plan. , after the overthrow of Trotsky, the construction of the Soviet Union's 15th and 25th five years under his leadership was completely in accordance with Trotsky's earlier theory) -
first of all, egg collection (collectivization of agriculture), the pigs got shouted The two-legged, four-legged sheep were supported by the sheep (the rich peasants were bad, the poor peasants were good), but they were resisted by some laying hens (the rich peasants’ violence in the Soviet Union during the collectivization in the late 1920s and early 1930s D) , but the pigs, with the help of the black dogs, captured all the resisting laying hens and executed them all after declaring that they were accomplices of Jones and Snowball (suppression of kulaks, purges in the 1930s).
Then there is the Gai Mill (industrial modernization), Boxer is the hardest, and Benjamin just follows the fool (the Soviet workers are also doing a good job under the example of Stakhanov).
All other animals are working under the direction of pigs and watched by black dogs, and the efficiency of work is not so high at this time (collectivization makes no matter whether the rich peasants with chickens and ducks or poor peasants with sheep have no energy, only horses The donkey workers are still working hard). The pigs started a personal cult of Napoleon, and they also began to corrupt the pleasure with the acquiescence of Napoleon, who had hung the portrait on the door of the house (the 30s began to use money and privileges in exchange for the cadres to him) Support, resulting in serious deterioration of cadres, and its impact on the disintegration of the Soviet Union is very far-reaching), and the farm rules are constantly and step by step tampered with.
Later, the second human counterattack occurred, the second farm defense war started (Soviet Patriotic War), Napoleon hid in a solid house to watch the battle, and the animals fought bravely and paid huge sacrifices (the shit was poured in Visited the front only once during the entire war, and spent the rest of the day sitting in the Kremlin).
The second war blew the mill to a pulp (the Soviet industrial area was concentrated in the west, and it was all smashed in World War II) and had to be rebuilt.
On the other side of the screen, the little pigs (the second generation of X) grew up happily in a good education and environment.
During the reconstruction, Boxer, who was shot in the second farm defense war, was injured at work again, and was finally abandoned, and was eventually sold by Napoleon (Soviet worker Zhan Jie-level sacrificed a lot in the Great Patriotic War, and the reconstruction after the war was very difficult. Work hard, but the standard of living has declined instead, Ehrenberg's "Thaw" profoundly reflects the hard life of the post-war workers).
The animal farm is getting bigger and bigger, the pigs are getting better and better, and the other animals are getting worse. The rules that were based on the principles of Old Major's thinking have long been tampered with.
Finally, when the pigs held a commendation meeting and had a celebration feast to praise Napoleon, the other animals, led by Benjamin, who had experienced everything and finally understood it, rushed into the house and wiped out all the pigs headed by Napoleon (fictional). non-historical ending).

Regarding this ending, which is different from the novel, I will talk a little bit (in fact, I have never read the novel at all, and the ending of the novel is due).
Whether it's a novel or a movie, the Soviet Union was still early, so the next scene of the animal farm in the novel was gone. However, Trotsky had already seen through the Soviet Union, which was alienated by the official system of Shi Dalin, and predicted its ending: 1. A good ending—the people spontaneously overthrew the Shi Dalin system and established its true practice of evil 2. The bad ending - the Soviet Union could not resist peaceful evolution, and the capitalism made a comeback. Therefore, the cartoon is based on Trotsky's wish and gave a happy ending where the animals spontaneously overthrew Napoleon and the pigs. However, the historical fact is the opposite - in 1991, humans were re-invited by the animals. Back home, the animal farm collapsed.

Therefore, in the whole film at least (at most, so much, the people who talk about free people are all gang 13 criminals), we can see two points: 1. The screenwriter is a Trotskyist (later Baidu found that Orwell seemed to be a Trotskyist) ); 2. No, this piece is not really green

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Extended Reading
  • Mabelle 2022-04-22 07:01:55

    The ending is too good to be good

  • Layla 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Nice shot. The animation in 1954 is not at all lost to the present. No matter what age, hand-drawn animation will never go out of style. Although the picture is very good, it did not capture the depth of the original work. Compared with the meaningful open ending of the original work, the animation superfluous changed to Happy Ending is also a failure. Hope this excellent novel can be remade into a better work//20150416 Archive film

Animal Farm quotes

  • Napoleon: Loyal followers, on farms owned and operated by pigs, there is order and discipline. Own lower animals do more work and eat less than other on farms.

    [gives medals]

    Napoleon: With this, we encourage you to make your lower animals work even harder and eat even less! To a greater Animal Farm! For peace and plenty under pig rule!

    [Benjamin, outside imagines Napoleon's face assimilating that of Jones; he suddenly sees through the resemblance]

    Napoleon: To the day when pigs own and operate farms EVERYWHERE!

    [applause]

  • Narration Spoken by: And that night the pigs drank to Boxer's memory, in the whisky they had bought with Boxer's life.