Fantastic Planet (1973)

Not many people have come across this fantastic piece of art which came in 1973 and got nominated to cans film festival.

This is one of the masterpiece of  Rene Laloux 


When a friend of mine passed this movie, he told me to watch it when I am high,  fortunately I watched it sober and it was a treat. For all those who want think more about our existence and how we came to be, this movie will give you one more platform to get confused and contemplate. 


PLOT 

In the distant future, the gargantuan blue humanoid Draags have brought human beings (who are called Oms as a play on the French word for "man", homme) from Earth to the planet Ygam, where they maintain a technologically and spiritually advanced society. The Draags consider Oms animals, and while they keep some as pets, others live in the wilderness and are periodically slaughtered by the Draags, who wish to control their population. Draags have much longer lifespans than Oms, but reproduce much less..... 

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