Hi there, in weekends I am very flexible about the topics, today I wrote an analysis about two famous and realist films. After you read it please feel free to share your comments and ideas.

First of all, I watched two movies called Pom Poko and It’s a Free World, and I chose these two movies, which are different in many respects because while comparing the content and perspectives of the movies, at the same time, it is more effective on the viewers whether a cartoon or a classic movie is more effective in terms of directing and activating. I wanted to observe. Primarily produced by Ghibli Studio, Pom Poko tells the story of a large tribe of raccoons struggling alone in the middle of nature surrounded by humans. However, you can’t see helpless and emotional animals here. In this movie, raccoons know the best war techniques and most importantly, they have the power to transform into any being they want, but I am not talking about the power of magic here, on the contrary, they try to take place in people’s lives by using both their physical and mental powers like an army. It’s here because only raccoons that can make their way into humans will be able to continue to survive, just like today’s world, those that can evolve will survive while others will starve to death. Those who can’t adapt will perish. Here, there are great battles so that people do not invade the last stronghold of the raccoons, but they fail and in the end, the tribe is forced to make a choice. They have to die, but they have no choice but to die or live in the sewers in very bad conditions. These people, who no one cared anymore, were born and died in hunger, misery, and filth. They did not question anything and did not condescend to it.

In addition to this, another interesting topic mentioned in the movie was sexuality. Due to the decision of war on raccoons, female raccoons were prohibited from breeding for 2 terms with this decision, which were taken in order not to stay away from the front and to waste time with child care. However, just like humans, the tribe continued to become crowded because of the many raccoons who could not suppress their instincts in the face of this decision. At the end of the movie, humans defeated nature, animal species disappeared, and the few animals that could not turn into humans either died or began to live in the sewers. Natural selection is shown very clearly in this movie, and its presentation as a cartoon has a much more lasting effect. It has reflected today’s world in a cartoon style with a realistic angle. Contrary to those who have accustomed us to the dream that everything will be fine, it has not compared how human beings destroy nature and their cruelty in terms of giant countries such as the USA and Russia, which are used in classic movies, with the most objective point of view. By making the animals whose voices we rarely hear anymore, he gave them a sense of intelligence and logic and presented to us how they got lost in this vortex.

The second movie I watched, It’s a Free World, is about the problems of immigrants. The lead character here was Anj, a middle-aged single mother and typical white Brit. She got involved in illegal business when she had to leave her job, where she was having problems. He employed immigrants who came to England from Ukraine, Iran, and various third-world countries to work illegally in hopes of a new life.

In the beginning, he thought he was helping these people by employing people who were actually teachers, doctors, or engineers to fill his stomach with many people who lost their lives in work accidents every day. Here, too, there is a realistic approach, in the most striking example, the fact that the woman sees her son Jamie as superior to the children of immigrants, shows that the Western world is not affected by this situation at all, even if the children of immigrants are displaced, starve or, in the worst case, die. In the continuation of the movie, we see that only hope is traded, people continue to work in these jobs like slaves, with the possibility that they may get it next time, even though they can’t get their money. After all, at the end of the movie, we see that the main character, who we think will leave these jobs, will take his job further this time and take immigrants from third world countries to use as slaves under the name of a company. One of the most important scenes in the movie that summarizes the subject is that Anj says there is nothing I can’t do for money, and when she is done with the immigrants she earns money from, she reports them and her children to the police without mercy.

When we compare these two films, we see that although their approach points are different, they proceed with the same aim. Simply ”IT IS WHAT IT IS”. There is an objective and realistic approach, neither more nor less. Perhaps the last time people stopped being content with what they had was in the Middle Ages. People who used to fence off and produce as much as they could eat from the marketplace of their neighborhood are no longer satiated no matter what they eat, they have lost their sense of satiety. I found Pom Poko more successful with its sub-messages in terms of impressiveness. Because everything was thought out to the smallest detail, emotions were explained with a single glance thanks to the lines. If a man had as much gold as a cave, he was ready to buy as much. In the second movie I watched, much deeper dimensions of the war were revealed, the social war. Being Muslim, being Arab, Polish, or Ukrainian meant being open to exploitation. However, in terms of the depth of the messages given, it was a very superficial film compared to Pom Poko.

I advised you , watch two films and make comments about my analysis. 🙂