Babe: A Pig in The City

Babe: A Pig in The City, is an interesting film to watch. It is a film that gives anthropomorphic qualities to animals who live in a large house, from mice to chimpanzees and orangutans. The protagonist is a pig from a farm that travels to the city with one of his owners in order to save their farm. However, everything that can go wrong for them does. They end up living in a house filled with animals and a women and man who are kind of weird, but then again what wasn't in this movie.

I thought it was very strange that the movie gave human qualities, such as emotion, to animals. Especially to the chimpanzees and orangutan who even dressed like humans. However, this is the main reason why the movie was such a success. By giving animals human qualities, it is the only way that the audience, humans, can connect with the animals and what they are experiencing throughout the film. This is the only way that the species barrier can be broken. Without this, and the whole hollywood effects in the movie, it would have been very unappealing just like the Kestrel's Eye.

This just shows that without giving animals that human element, we can care less what they are going through. To say that animals share the same emotions as us would pose a major problem as well. If we knew that an animal felt fear and pain, we would not be able to slaughter them or shoot them as we do today. Though I believe animals have emotions to a certain degree, many don't want to due to the fact that it would raise a moral questions.

Babe is a great family movie that is entertaining and interesting film to watch. However, it is no nature film at all such as the Kestrel's Eye. It just shows that the species barrier is definitely present when comparing the two films.