Product: Animal Farm
Rating: 2.0
Animal farm the cartoon
Animal farm was a book written over 60 years ago by George Orwell. It has been converted into a child's cartoon film. It is a fable, which re-enacts the Russian Revolution, swapping humans for animals.It starts off with a speech by a pig called major, which represents Karl Marx. He influences the animals about rebelling against humans. Eventually the animals drive Mr Jones (who represents the former Russian leaders, the Tsars) off the farm, in order to start a communist community. Like most revolutions, people start to give themselves leadership. Eventually, the leaders start to turn into the former leaders, and things became as they started off.However, the film takes a twist at the end. The animals fight back against the pig leaders. This was a very bad idea because it destroys the connection with the Russian Revolution. It loses its effects.However, the sense of satire still remains because pigs represent the communist leaders, and pigs are usually unpleasant creatures.The film is only good as far as an entertaining cartoon, but after reading the book, I find it a very bad comparison as many major characters and parts are missed out, and the ending fails to follow that of the Russian revolution.