[BigTex]

Has anyone seen this animated French film? (I think it was French--I saw a dubbed English version)

The film is about these creatures who are very intelligent and who keep humans as pets (they are about 25 feet tall or so, so the people look like toy poodles). For fun, the creatures have out of body experiences and travel telepathically to one of two moons on their planet. On this moon, they float around as luminous spheres and interact with one another in their ethereal forms.

As you might imagine, one time while the creatures were all away and their bodies were in a deep trance, the humans staged a revolt and wrecked the creatures' world, and kind of messed up their out of body fun.

It was an excellent film, but I always think of internet forums (when they are interesting) as sort of being the human equivalent of the Fantastic Planet.

Forum communication is at once both honest, intimate and fun, while being impersonal, imaginary and has a fantasy-like quality.

It's interesting how you could put the 10 craziest posters here in a room together and if you didn't tell them who the others were, it would probably appear to be a room of utterly normal and probably a little boring looking people. Yet, when you unpack these personalities, you find that there is this wildness and unusual perspective in each of them. It's great. But without the forum as a vehicle of expression, a lot of the wildness would never get out, and that would be a shame (in most cases anyway).

Anyway, the Fantastic Planet is a great film.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', ' ')It was an excellent film, but I always think of internet forums (when they are interesting) as sort of being the human equivalent of the Fantastic Planet.Forum communication is at once both honest, intimate and fun, while being impersonal, imaginary and has a fantasy-like quality. It's interesting how you could put the 10 craziest posters here in a room together and if you didn't tell them who the others were, it would probably appear to be a room of utterly normal and probably a little boring looking people. Yet, when you unpack these personalities, you find that there is this wildness and unusual perspective in each of them. It's great. But without the forum as a vehicle of expression, a lot of the wildness would never get out, and that would be a shame (in most cases anyway). Anyway, the Fantastic Planet is a great film.

[BigTex]

Here is this fine film on YouTube.

Link

It will stay with you for a long time.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I watched again, recently. I saw when I was a kid, stoned, and thought, wow! I'm still not sure what to make of it. Like true art it seems to be a metaphor of some kind, perhaps of many kinds. It is certainly fascinating to watch.

[dinopello]

It's been 35 years since I read it but it reminds me of some memory I have of The Tripods Trilogy. The humans-as-pets part anyway.

[Plantagenet]

A trippy little animated film, from a trippy period. ..... the beatle's 'Yellow Submarine" is a similar trippy little animated film. Both were designed to be viewed while stoned, and to have enough wierdness that they would 'blow the mind" of the stoned theatre-goers.

[Aaron]

Loved it... 35 years ago.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'I')t's been 35 years since I read it but it reminds me of some memory I have of The Tripods Trilogy. The humans-as-pets part anyway.