This is a movie trailer for the anime version of a manga series called “Cat Shit One.” According to the post on BoingBoing from whence I lifted the trailer, the comic was was released in America under the name “Apocalypse: Meow.” Now it’ll be a movie, coming in 2010.
Somehow, the use of cute cartoon animals just yanks me out of the “war movie” mode and really drives home the sheer brutality of war. And, because I can’t understand a word of Japanese, I think it puts the senselessness of such brutal conflict into stark relief.
Despite how it manages to look and feel like so many other war movies I’ve seen (and enjoyed) none of my paradigms fit.
I can’t help but imagine that this is how human agression would look to, say, a fully rational alien race. Utterly incomprehensible.
Grant Hamilton
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Juel