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Martin Rosen's Pastoral Symphony
11 years ago
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PULRC0U....._new_dp_review
WATERSHIP DOWN is a simple adventure story about a group of rabbits seeking a new place to call home -- simple, that is, until you see that it's part political allegory and part POW escape thriller, woven together with a trickster creation myth and the kind of death-haunted theology one could imagine in the lives of a prey species at the mercy of a world of predators.
Is this a kids' movie? Sure, for thoughtful, older kids who won't be freaked out by seeing some of life's harsher realities on the screen.
WATERSHIP DOWN is a simple adventure story about a group of rabbits seeking a new place to call home -- simple, that is, until you see that it's part political allegory and part POW escape thriller, woven together with a trickster creation myth and the kind of death-haunted theology one could imagine in the lives of a prey species at the mercy of a world of predators.
Is this a kids' movie? Sure, for thoughtful, older kids who won't be freaked out by seeing some of life's harsher realities on the screen.
But definitely don't take them to the follow-up movie based on Adams' The Plague Dogs - a top to bottom downer, with -
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- a tragic ending that Adams couldn't bring himself to include in the book. (In the book he flat out admits he's whipped up a Deus ex machina to spare his readers' feelings.)