Well it took several days in the cat week but I finally came across a feline theme movie that was really good.
The rabbi's Cat is this wonderfully artistic film based in Algeria during the 1920s.
It's consists of a really unique and colourful art Direction. Made all the better by the Charming environments of Algeria and the later internal African continent.
In this we get to utilise a variety of colours.
Concentrating on vivid blue background with the open Mediterranean Sea and the wonderfully clean crystal sky.
Then moving on to a yellow dominating colour palette as we focus in on the Northern African Sahara. Before eventually settling on vivid greens of the internal African jungle.
To accompany this wonderful artwork comes a intriguing and ever evolving story. Originally revolving around a cat that eats a parrot, thus gaining the ability of human speech.
Before moving on to the strange scenario of a Russian Jew Escaping The Impressions of the Russian Revolution by hiding in a box of Tanakhs being sent as part of the preservation program.
It's from this weird scenario that were introduced to a myriad of other unique and interesting characters.
All with their own interests and tribulations about the world and how it runs.
This is one of those movies that I loves to watch but don't really want to talk about it. It's not for a lack of anything to talk about, on the contrary I could make paragraph after paragraph about every individual reaction between each character and how the story progresses whatever intriguing dialogue.
But I really don't want to give anything about the film away. I just want people to go out and find the film to watch it for themselves. This is one of the best animated films I've seen in well over a year and I think people should give it a chance at any opportunity given.
It's a film that isn't afraid to talk about a subject in a very direct manner. It'll point out flaws and tribulations about people's mindsets or their own religious ideals. While simultaneously giving you good reason as to why a person who believes in such ideas may have some valid points after all. It's one of those films that wants to explore the Human Condition and in showing some of the best and worst parts of humanity it's able to painted picture of what we really strive to be.
The beauty is that this movie is more than just a drama. It's also something of an adventure flick. As the second half of the movie becomes a story of the great exploration as a group of people from North Africa travel through the continent in search of this theoretical Jerusalem where the original inhabitants live. Involves a whole lot of conversation about racial differences and the idea of a fictionalised the land where Prejudice doesn't exist.
It also makes some pretty clever references to the City of Gold that supposed to be referenced in the purported Promised Land.
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