Fantastic Planet
I loved the animation in this film. That was the main reason I wanted to watch it in the first place, the colors were so captivating, the blue people enthralled me. The opening scene starts off with a woman and her child running away from the hand of one of these blue people. They seem to be trying to play with them but soon the mother is crushed as she is much smaller than the giant hand above her. For the rest of the film we follow the woman's child, an Om, while he grows up with the blue people, who are referred to as Draags, in their world as a pet. He is taken by Tiwa, the daughter of Master Sinh. She names him Terr, dresses him in tiny circus-like outfits, teaches him how to speak, she cares for him like an actual pet. As time goes on Tiwa begins to have educational lessons on the planet and their beings, she gains this knowledge through a headset where after listening the lesson is engraved in their brain. Terr also listens to these lessons, he's not supposed to and Master Sinh often scolds Tiwa about the manor. Terr uses this education to his advantage, one day he takes the headset and runs away finding refuge with other fellow Oms who have also escaped. Listening to the headset Draag lessons the Oms lead a rebellion weakening the Draag race. Not only is the animation captivating but the story is too. If you take this silly French story and read between the lines, it relates to a very common life we live. Struggling to live cohesively amongst each other, the struggle of freedom, the separation of races, it's all familiar, a story we've not only seen but lived.