Cat Soup

Nekojiru so(Cat Soup) is an experimental 2001 Japanese animated film directed by Tatsuo Satō, is the journey of a kitten to a bizarre world trying to save a half of his sister's soul took away by the death. Through the journey they met a series of strange people, one even wanted to make the kitten and his sister into soup. The film leaves an open end to the audience, without determine whether they are alive or dead at the end of the story.

It contains a lot of irony and metaphor in my point of view, the "God" changes the time of the world just to pick up the food, which is earth, that he dropped off. The kitten has lost his sympathy as saving his sister is the only purpose to him, he started to act cruel in the second half of the animation, such as hitting the pig for walking slow, and pushed the man into boiling water instead of becoming cat soup. It indicates that they finally starts to fight back but in a cruel way because there's no other choice. In contrast, the pig indicates who surrendered himself and willing to be someone else's slave, he fought back and bite the kitten's pawn off at last, but it doesn't make any difference to his pathetic life.

I am extremely interested in this kind of animation implies a deeper meaning, and leave the audience a huge space to spread their own imagination, but presented in a comparatively childish style of drawing, similar to some dark fairy tales.