Saturday, November 22, 2008

Now Hear This



This animated film from 1962 is one of the best animated films I've ever seen. This was directed by Chuck Jones and often features in the Looney Tunes series of animated films shown on various cartoon channels like Pogo.
This cartoon shows a high degree of creativity which impressed me a lot. The message of this cartoon also is quite good and deep. It tells the story of a man who finds a listening horn, which actually is the lost horn of the devil. The man tries the horn and finds it more appealing than the horn which he already possesses. So he decides to relinquish his old horn for the newly found attractive red horn.
When the man starts to hear through the horn, it sounds incredibly good after which follow all the travails and finally the man, after going through a lot of physical trouble, decides to throw away the red horn. The creativity displayed by the creator of the cartoon is incredible and the cartoon is also apt for the present condition prevailing around the world. The world has chosen to go ahead with 'sweet sounding' reforms while dumping all care and here we stand, at the threshold of another great global recession. Governments have chosen to over look what had happened before the IInd World War(the great depression of the thirties) and here we are, reaping the results of all we have chosen to do.

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