For no particular reason

[Psy]

I ran across For no particular reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQhXBtFtESA) on YouTube.

It is a USSR animated short (in Russian with English subtitles) aimed at kids, it is about how giving makes people happy. I was thinking that it would probably only take such films in a communist society (that the USSR was not) to encourage people to well be kind and all, sure some would call it indoctrinating kids but one could say the same for current society.

Oh I also have links to other USSR era animated short, if anyone is interested just say so and I will create a thread with links for all the USSR era animated shorts I have.

[Genosse Kotze]

Yeah sure I'm interested. You might want to check out 'Reksio' too. It was a Polish cartoon about a little dog that gets into adventures in the same vein as the cartoon you just posted. Also "Unser Sandmännchen" from the DDR.

[Psy]

Originally posted by keine Kaufhalle mehr!@March 08, 2007 01:05 am
Yeah sure I'm interested. You might want to check out 'Reksio' too. It was a Polish cartoon about a little dog that gets into adventures in the same vein as the cartoon you just posted. Also "Unser Sandmännchen" from the DDR.
Okay here is a few.

Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt7SrdcKlkw)
Oil, War and Hypocrisy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_Lo-0w0RM)
Firing range (http://video.google.ca/url?docid=-6953808844063930161&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=russian+cartoon+%2Bfiring+range&vidurl=http://video.google.ca/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D-6953808844063930161%26q%3Drussian%2Bcartoon%2B%252 Bfiring%2Brange&usg=AL29H2032L8bR70lCd-7cbbuwOywjCXUew)
Contact (http://video.google.ca/url?docid=7607496933085682464&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=russian+animation+%2Bcontact&vidurl=http://video.google.ca/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D7607496933085682464%26q%3Druss ian%2Banimation%2B%252Bcontact&usg=AL29H23mIKxizuce-pn75QhbxLNKW2JMvA)
My life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dc5pmBVsLA)
There Once was a Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tveZG41h1GA)

[redcannon]

ah, that was cute. that was a damn greedy bear, though. glad he learned his lesson.


(analysis):
this cartoon obviously shows the collectivist principle that everyone will be joyous through sharing in the community. the bear represented a country that was formerly capitalist but through the process of permanent revolution converted to communism, and so then gave his berries to the squirrel, who represented nothing in particular.
the name of the short itself shows that people should not have any gains through sharing in the community, only that it is out their kindness that communism could be possible.

(p.s., joking, m8s, lol )

[Psy]

Here is my over annalists.

The girl represents revolutionary theorists and the flowers represents the ideal of communism, the girl is happy with this ideal but comes across a donkey representing the proletariat, the proletariat is gloomy and depressed but when given the flowers (ideal of communism) the proletariat becomes cheerful and full of life.

The dog represents youth

The bear represents the bourgeoisie that is unaffected by the flowers (ideal of communism) and more concerned with his berries (accumulated wealth).

The squirrel represents the new classless society that in the end gets both the ideal of communism (flowers) and accumulated wealth (berries)

Of course given the short is aimed for a young audience, odds are the meaning is much simpler :D

[Genosse Kotze]

I like the one about the dog! But even in capitalist society there are childrens stories with altruistic meanings (that need to be destroyed later on in the bourgieous education system), 'The Giving Tree' being my favorite example.

[Psy]

Originally posted by keine Kaufhalle mehr!@March 11, 2007 06:50 am
I like the one about the dog! But even in capitalist society there are childrens stories with altruistic meanings (that need to be destroyed later on in the bourgieous education system), 'The Giving Tree' being my favorite example.
The Giving Tree is stupid, the kid used the tree for his own personal gain to the point the Giving Tree became nothing but a stump.

The kid (even as an old man) never gave anything back the tree (not even friendship) and the Giving Tree never gained a Marxist annalist seeing the kid was accumulating the tree's wealth to the tree's detriment.

[Ander]

Yeah, that kid was a filthy fucking greedy capitalist. He exploited the shit out of the tree!