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> It was once called „that animals cartoon that traumatised generations”. Although I can imagine this being quite horrific, I also don't recall that this carto

> It was once called „that animals cartoon that traumatised generations”. Although I can imagine this being quite horrific, I also don't recall that this cartoon was all that upsetting me when I watched it as a child. Then again I grew up in the countryside so maybe it was less shocking to me because I already knew what nature was like. When it comes to animal cartoons I think Watership Down and The Plague Dogs were much worse experiences. Still, kind of makes me wonder what's up with the UK and depressing animal cartoons.

youngNed 5y ago
> The Plague Dogs I think a LOT of UK school kids were truamatised by this, a lot of teachers, saw it thought 'oh, same author (Richard Adams) and director (Martin Rosen) as Watership Down, lets stick the kids in front of this while we do something else. Man, that film was harrowing.
DocTomoe 5y ago
Watership Down is mostly traumatising as a cartoon. I've read the book last year, and it feels a lot more as a deeply mythologic piece than a psychedelic horror. It's essentially a shorter Lord of the Rings, with bunnies. Highly recommended. (Also, the recent Netflix adaption of the material is a lot closer to the source material than the 1980s-era cartoon).
mariodiana 5y ago
I'm traumatized merely from reading the Wikipedia entry!
pram 5y ago
The Plague Dogs is so unrelentingly bleak, few films have the spine to just be utterly hopeless. It's like a "children's" version of something like Threads or The Lighthouse lol
- mrob 5y ago
  I recently read an interpretation of the ending that seems plausible and makes it slightly less bleak. Rot13 for spoilers: Va gur crahygvzngr fprar, lbh frr gur ohyyrgf fgevxr gur jngre, naq gura gur uryvpbcgre snqrf bhg. Guvf pbhyq vzcyl gung gurl uvg gurve gnetrgf naq erghearq gb onfr, juvpu zrnaf gur svany fprar vf fbzr xvaq bs nsgreyvsr, naq abg gur qbtf' qlvat qryhfvbaf nf gurl qebja nf V svefg nffhzrq. Gur zlgubybtvpny fprarf va Jngrefuvc Qbja ner n cerprqrag gb guvf xvaq bs guvat, fb vg qbrfa'g fbhaq haernfbanoyr.

youngNed 5y ago

> The Plague Dogs I think a LOT of UK school kids were truamatised by this, a lot of teachers, saw it thought 'oh, same author (Richard Adams) and director (Martin Rosen) as Watership Down, lets stick the kids in front of this while we do something else. Man, that film was harrowing.

DocTomoe 5y ago

Watership Down is mostly traumatising as a cartoon. I've read the book last year, and it feels a lot more as a deeply mythologic piece than a psychedelic horror. It's essentially a shorter Lord of the Rings, with bunnies. Highly recommended. (Also, the recent Netflix adaption of the material is a lot closer to the source material than the 1980s-era cartoon).

mariodiana 5y ago

I'm traumatized merely from reading the Wikipedia entry!

pram 5y ago

The Plague Dogs is so unrelentingly bleak, few films have the spine to just be utterly hopeless. It's like a "children's" version of something like Threads or The Lighthouse lol

mrob 5y ago
I recently read an interpretation of the ending that seems plausible and makes it slightly less bleak. Rot13 for spoilers: Va gur crahygvzngr fprar, lbh frr gur ohyyrgf fgevxr gur jngre, naq gura gur uryvpbcgre snqrf bhg. Guvf pbhyq vzcyl gung gurl uvg gurve gnetrgf naq erghearq gb onfr, juvpu zrnaf gur svany fprar vf fbzr xvaq bs nsgreyvsr, naq abg gur qbtf' qlvat qryhfvbaf nf gurl qebja nf V svefg nffhzrq. Gur zlgubybtvpny fprarf va Jngrefuvc Qbja ner n cerprqrag gb guvf xvaq bs guvat, fb vg qbrfa'g fbhaq haernfbanoyr.