Christopher Jenkins’ animated film fables, for children, the successive reincarnations of the protagonist, and for adults it slips some winks at English politics
As is known, here cats have seven lives, but in other places, like England, they have nine. The protagonist of the animated film “A lucky cat” has ten. But the truth is, she’s out of luck. Better said, he enjoys it at the beginning, when he gets an owner who spoils him, and at the end, but we are not going to tell the end. We’ll just say that at the beginning of the movie he is a horse (and that he will always be distinguished by having two-color eyes, which is called heterochromia iridium)
This is explained by the cat himself. He had become so fat, selfish and careless that, without realizing it, one day he died altogether. Luckily, in the Department of Reincarnation, an angelic woman registered him as “egocentric, possible psychopath,” and placed him in a pilot plan: to deserve a tenth life as a cat, he would first go through nine other lives, but in one as a badger, in another like a rat, and a cockroach, and so on, until transmigrating into animals like the dog and the horse, capable of having noble feelings and fighting for their owners, even if they misunderstand them and do not thank them.
This is what happens with its owner. She is in a biology graduate program developing a bee conservation project, and her teaching advisor encourages her, but with the secret intention of making her fail in public to impose his own project, nothing less than the elimination of the species and its replacement. by electronic bees. The animal discovers it, fights as best it can, will be misunderstood and only in the end will it have its reward. Now, will the kids understand this matter of scientific bidding?
It doesn’t matter, For them it is clear who the good guys are, who the bad guy is and what efforts the cat must make to have his tenth life as a cat. Small irony: those responsible for this English film drew the bad guy quite similar to Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a conservative politician with very little environmentalist proposals.. And the good ones, almost all of them English of African descent. Director, the veteran Christopher Jenkinswith a low budget and the collaboration of Ken Cinnamon and Karen Wengrod, screenwriters who come from the era of “He-Man”.
“A Lucky Cat” (Ten Lives, Great Britain-Canada, 2024); Dir.: Christopher Jenkins. Animation.
Source: Ambito
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