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Black Rose Anarchist Library Presents: Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson
A parable of urbanization, where the creatures of the forest bandits of small, medium and megafarms are also habitants of the hedgerow, catchers of minnows, burrowers in holes.

Fox gleefully hatches elaborate plans to steal from the obviously evil farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, breaks into a supermarket, encouraging his family and friends to loot it, and those are definately the happiest moments in the film. There are some triumphant moments, but all in all its a humbling story about the countryside being swallowed by the supermall.

It's definitely a Wes Anderson film, with its symmetrical, right-angle set designs and shooting angles, big blocks of primary colors, dysfunctional family dynamics and deadpan subversive humor, bizarre jokes, the colourful, charismatic characters, the deceptively simple yet playful metaphorical plot.

Time magazine interview with Wes Anderson-
When it comes to Mr Fox, you introduce a conflict between him being a wild animal and yet acting like a human – more of a conflict that’s in Dahl’s book.
‘Yeah, that’s our theme. His whole thing is that he likes being wild. Even though he’s well-dressed, it’s important for him to be a wild animal. But I think he means it metaphorically, somehow! [laughs] But it sounds silly saying it.’

http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/