It's spirituality lies in it's initial message, which is about facing death, and avoiding it as well. This is a film both adults and children alike will enjoy and learn from, because it is a social commentary on facism, and it is a spiritual film.
The only difference is that it's animated with "cute & cuddly" cartoon characters. This was like watching a Terrence Malick film beautiful, subtle, spiritual, and important for our lives.
However it is his ability to write believably and without sentimentality of the quiet grief of a rabbit (“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.” ) that has firmly based him in the world of great literature.The first great animated film to come around in the entire history of motion pictures! It's not only original(shying away from the traditional "Disney" formula), but it's the first animated film to ponder the meaning of life itself! I was really moved by it! With "Disney" films, you know what to expect. The success of the book allowed Adams to become a full-time writer, and over the years he published a number of often animal-based fantasy stories and poems including Shardik, Plague Dogs, and The Tyger Voyage. The book was received with rapturous reviews and quickly sold out. However it nearly didn't get published at all, as seven publishers all rejected it before a one-man publishing firm, Rex Collings, took it on, and even he had his doubts "I've just taken on a novel about rabbits, one of them with extra- sensory perception … Do you think I'm mad?". The result, Watership Down, is a beautifully written novel about a group of rabbits escaping from their doomed home, and won him both the Carnegie medal and the Guardian Children’ s Prize. When driving his daughters to school one day they asked him to tell them a story – “I had been put on the spot and I started off, ‘Once there were two rabbits called Hazel and Fiver.’ And I just took it on from there.” His daughters thought the story so good that they begged him to write it down, which he did during the evenings after work. it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.”Īdams studied at Oxford, served in the Army during WWII and worked for the Civil Service, not becoming an author until he was in his 50s.
“Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels.
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