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The Boxtrolls (2014) : A children's film...about the Holocaust?
A children's film...about the Holocaust?
A children's film...about the Holocaust?
I took my kids to see Boxtrolls, and was astonished to see how dark it was.
It's no wonder that many critics dislike it: the film makes them unconformable because its about demonizing and mass murdering 'others' in the name of 'good'.
Anyone familiar with the holocaust will recognize the not so subtle references. Indeed, the film's story is predicated upon the consequences of a 'blood libel'.
Specifically, where boxtrolls allegedly steal and eat our children, good people standing around doing nothing as the trolls are rounded up and killed to allay their fears, the boxtrolls are forced into slave labor in factories before being wiped off the face of the earth, modern technology being put in the service of mass murder, boxtrolls (and the city) being consumed and/or purified by ovens, black smoke billowing around the city, etc.
I'm not saying that the film is literally about Nazis and the Holocaust. That's clearly *not* the case - social mobility and cohesion at the expense of convenient scapegoats is its ostensible theme.
Nonetheless, it certainly draws on the theme that socially acceptable morality is often on the wrong side of history.
The film's guiding light, of course, is that the real monsters are humans trying to earn their white hats and/or proper place in history - that's a very dark theme indeed.
It's no wonder that many critics dislike it: the film makes them unconformable because its about demonizing and mass murdering 'others' in the name of 'good'.
Anyone familiar with the holocaust will recognize the not so subtle references. Indeed, the film's story is predicated upon the consequences of a 'blood libel'.
Specifically, where boxtrolls allegedly steal and eat our children, good people standing around doing nothing as the trolls are rounded up and killed to allay their fears, the boxtrolls are forced into slave labor in factories before being wiped off the face of the earth, modern technology being put in the service of mass murder, boxtrolls (and the city) being consumed and/or purified by ovens, black smoke billowing around the city, etc.
I'm not saying that the film is literally about Nazis and the Holocaust. That's clearly *not* the case - social mobility and cohesion at the expense of convenient scapegoats is its ostensible theme.
Nonetheless, it certainly draws on the theme that socially acceptable morality is often on the wrong side of history.
The film's guiding light, of course, is that the real monsters are humans trying to earn their white hats and/or proper place in history - that's a very dark theme indeed.
Re: A children's film...about the Holocaust?
Wouldn't the question devolve to the source material, "Here Be Monsters!"? Was that the author's intention, a holocaust allusion?
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Re: A children's film...about the Holocaust?
Wouldn't the question devolve to the source material, "Here Be Monsters!"? Was that the author's intention, a holocaust allusion?
You are obviously correct virgiltx - the film's allusions presumably derive from the source material.
And if the film is any indication, the book comments on the monstrous nature of human morality and aspiration.
Re: A children's film...about the Holocaust?
Lots of kids' stories are allegories about deeper grown-up themes.
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Re: A children's film...about the Holocaust?
There were no such scenes.
I never claimed that there were scenes depicting the holocaust - I'm claiming that the film (and presumably the book) draws on themes and iconography that run parallel to it.
Re: A children's film...about the Holocaust?
A troll on the board of a movie involving trolls. Cute.