Watch the trailer and see images of Alberto Vazquez’s stunningly terrifying animated fable unicorn warsviewers may find themselves idly humming a long-forgotten tune. care bears tv show they grew up together.Similarities Between Murderous and Frenzy Bears unicorn wars And their kid-friendly counterparts told Vasquez that it was entirely intentional to Polygon.
“A series I loved when I was little, care bear,” with the Spanish writer/director graphic novelist Speak partially through an interpreter. “I like to play with animal iconography. Anthropomorphic animals don’t belong to a particular culture or time period. They belong to everyone. They’re part of everyone’s childhood.”
It’s guaranteed that no one ever had a Care Bear like them in their childhood. Unicorn War. Vasquez’s characters have the curvy, pretty bodies, big eyes, and pastel colors of children’s show characters, but with visible genitals and pronounced libido, foul mouths, bad tempers, and, in some cases, deep-seated psychosis. Their war-focused culture leads to many characters being graphically mutilated or murdered as the story unfolds, leaving the film to challenge the audience’s endurance. It ends with a very shocking sequence that seems designed.
[Ed. note: This interview features end spoilers for Unicorn Wars.]
But this does not mean provocation or violation of the edgelord. Vazquez relies on universal imagery in presenting the terrifying tropes about the root causes of war, allowing audiences around the world to do the same without looking at specific nationalist intentions or the history of any particular country. I wanted to be able to watch movies.
“They’re iconic — not just the Care Bears icon in particular,” he says. Like the previous animated movie, Birdboy: Forgotten Children, he wanted to use cartoon animals. Because every country has its own version of the idea. “I like working with recognizable iconography. bird boy, was a mouse and a rabbit. That way, when you watch this movie, you really don’t know where it came from, whether it’s Spanish, American, Japanese, or French. ”
symbolism of unicorn wars Bear culture is built around a military-industrial complex focused on demonizing unicorns and sustaining a never-ending war against them. The bears have scriptures that tell them that their ancestors lived in sacred groves close to the gods, but the unicorn unjustly drove them out.As the film progresses, his two cubs named Tabby and Bluey The focus will be on the bear brothers. These represent different facets of the attrition war against unicorns and basically against nature and the environment.
By the second half of the film, Tubby and Bluey have each become radical. Bluey staged a coup against the leaders of his own faction, murdered them, and took control of the bear army. Tubby returns to nature, lives peacefully with a unicorn, and immerses himself in the forest, away from civilization. However, determined to prove his superiority, Bluey leads his army into the forest, burns the forest, slaughters all the unicorns in a bloody battle, murders Tubby, and kills himself. I finished. First seen in the film’s opening sequence, the shapeless, devouring monsters rise from the disemboweled corpses of unicorns and bears, and the collective ruins of the old world take on new forms. It looks like the first human.
For Vazquez, the story is about analyzing mankind’s darkest drives and the institutions that stir and control those drives to stay in power. , dealing with the worst humans,” he says. “I wanted to talk about the common origin of all wars. It seems like a fictional Vietnam War, but to me all wars are the same.”
The least ubiquitous and most difficult element of the film to understand is the shapeless, grabbing, hungry monsters in the woods. Vasquez explains: It serves as a metaphor for what happens later. The monsters to me are the formless gods, the gods who are adored as leaders, but who have not yet evolved. When the end comes, the gods will appear and the prophecies of the Book of the Bears will be fulfilled. A magical and mystical element that reinforces the concept. [of what violence does to a society]”
Ultimately, though, the film isn’t about monsters, it’s a message, especially about those in power who profit from war and the tools they use to stay in power. We have a militaristic culture that dominates public opinion,” says Vazquez. “He who controls discourse and information controls war. The way they talk about fanaticism — religion is a form of control. War with ideology is far more dangerous than war without ideology.”
where bird boy ending with a little hope, unicorn wars It robs characters and the world of hope and a chance for recovery. And it’s infinitely cynical about what humans are made of. Vazquez says it’s no coincidence either. “The movie is all about playing with contrast,” he says. “At first it feels like a humorous movie, then it becomes more dramatic and sad, and finally a horror movie. — and shocking things that are impactful evoke emotion.”
Again he sees the end unicorn wars And its nihilistic message is real, not as a violation for its own sake. “I want to be very radical with my story’s message,” he explains. It may be offensive to some audiences, but I like to make them feel uncomfortable.
unicorn wars Now playing in select theaters — See the movie website for details — Available for rent at Amazon, buduand other digital platforms.