Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful times to come.
The black satirical animation "Dinner for a Few", although only 8 minutes long, tells the story of a dark period in human history.
The animation begins with a quote from Bertol Brecht: "The man who has eaten is drawing bread to fill the hunger of the hungry", which leads to the main film of the animation.
The background of the animation is the rough sea and the heavy rain of the night, creating an atmosphere of horror and tension. The camera then turns to a hotel on the shore, and the camera gradually focuses on a room in the hotel, which has begun to be a little dilapidated.
The room was brightly lit, and six well-dressed people sat at the table and ate wildly, eating ugly. The camera zooms in to see that the diners are not really human beings, they look like humans, but have pig faces that are different from normal humans. The light in the room, the food on the table and the wind and rain outside the room contrast.
The camera changes from far and near to a top-down angle, and the six pigs on the table are sharing a plate of food. The camera turns to the dinner table, and the first shot is of a judge in a white wig and a wide-sleeved robe, where the judge represents social order and law.
The camera then shifts to a suit leather pig with a top hat, typical of a 19th-century Western gentleman's dress, which is supposed to be the ruling party. The camera rotates sequentially, bringing out the capitalist with the jewel ring, the ruler of the non-ruling party, the media of public opinion, and the priest who represents the morality and values of society.
These superior pigs representing different forces sit together and eat without image. Gobbling up shows that their eating appearance is too ugly. There were white and black cats running around on the ground asking for food, the white cat called obediently, the upper pig poured the leftover food on the plate, and a white cat walked away with the food. The white cats here should represent law-abiding commoners who struggle to survive at the feet of the upper pigs.
The stout servants threw the furnishings and furniture in the house into the machine, and what came out of the machine was a plate of food, that is, the food eaten by the pig on the table. Servants should represent the whole social system, and the machines that produce food should represent the social productive forces.
The food that fell on the table was scrambled by white and black cats, telling the audience that all the civilians could eat was the scraps of leftovers dropped by the capitalists. The black cat scrambling for food inadvertently finds a chain snake wrapped around the legs of the upper pigs under the table, which tells the audience the interests of the upper pigs to restrain and interconnect with each other. Eventually, the black cat was devoured by the chain snake under the table.
The room is almost exhausted, the machine can produce less and less food, and the upper pigs on the table can get less and less food. The black and white cats, hungry, desperately barked at the feet of the upper pig, but in exchange for expulsion.
The black-hearted upper pig even put a toy mouse on the ground to attract the cat and then continued to eat the food on the table. At this time, the cats representing the commoners were already more hungry.
The lights in the room were getting dimmer and dimmer, the machine was still functioning, but there was no food coming out, and the camera was pulled away to see that the room was no longer even walls. The upper pigs were empty in front of them, and they began to tap the table with the tableware, eventually turning into a plate on the table.
The hungry black cats on the ground began to jump on the table to grab food together, one after another, and the white cats also began to jump on the table, and finally all the cats converged into a tiger and pounced on the pigs.
The picture brightens, the servant takes the kitten to the new room, and the new upper pig emerges from the cat. A new cycle has begun. "When a slave becomes a master, he will never abolish the title of master, and his shelf is probably more than his master, and he can laugh."
The picture began to pull away, the whole hotel appeared on the screen again, the hotel was missing a room, the sea was still choppy, and the heavy rain had never stopped in the dark.
We can guess that the hotel rooms are limited, history is reincarnated, and reincarnation is also the essence of historical development, but the cyclical laws of history will eventually be broken.
About the animated short film "Dinner for a Few", Jun Yi first shared here, welcome to pay attention to the spit, Mo Mo Da!