Animal Crackers (Pentimenti)

When a movie is a product that deliberately arranges symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses and stimulate the intellect, then that movie must certainly be considered Art. This is what I thought of "Animal Crackers - Pentimenti", where even colours participate in the non-violent expression of what is an aspect of violence in humanity.

Being a short movie and dealing with a difficult subject, someone would assume that it would be difficult to express those concepts without strong images and / or strong words, but this is not the case and it looks effortless in its intent.

By reading the first part of the title you might not immediately grasp the concepts expressed, while it certainly refers to the cookies for babies; the second part though, it certainly let you understand that it is dealing with "feelings" - the word "Pentimenti" is Italian for "Reconsideration, second thought", however English language does not exactly express in one word "reconsideration with regrets", hence, I suppose, the choice of the Director of the Italian word instead of an English one.

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