Chicken Run, a way to denounce the way of living of the animals in farms

 

Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion cartoon directed by Nick Park and Peter Lord.

This cartoon is in the same style as Shaun the Sheep.

The story happens in the countryside of Yorkshire, in England. A flock of chickens live on an egg farm directed by the strict and cruel Mrs Tweedy and her submissive husband, she kills and eats the chicken, no longer able to lay eggs because that's the only thing that brings her money.

Ginger is a rebellious chicken who dreams to run away and live freely with her  friends and try by all the possible manners to escape.

One night she sees Rocky Rhodes crash landing in the farm. She sees him flying and sees in him a way to help them to escape and asks him to teach them how to fly.

Ginger finds out that in fact Rhodes can't fly at all and to avoid the shame he runs away.

Rhodes came back because he knew that Mrs Tweedy was about to test a machine to make a chicken pie on one of the chickens and save Ginger who was the chosen one.

After that they all fly away in a flying machine created by the chickens and finally all live freely and happily.

This cartoon made my childhood without realizing that a lot of animals were actually living like this to provide us, humans, food (after all I was really young when I watched it).

5/5 This movie is great and if you want your children to get the meaning of it talk with them about it.

 

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