Taking advantage of my mother’s home video library on a visit home for the hoildays, I decided to treat myself to an old fashioned movie marathon. I decided on a double feature with cartoon and film short to start (sans Pathé news)…
Movie Marathon Entry the First:
Perhaps Disney is to blame for the fact that so many people consider Swift some sort of quaint caricaturist, when in fact he is one of the more biting, bitter misanthropes to ever write.
This is probably the world’s second cartoon feature film (after Snow White) but all the saccharine elements are already in place, the star-crossed princess, the love birds singing. The biggest loss is of course the picaresque since Gulliver drops in like God to solve all the Lilliputian problems. All the while we keep waiting and hoping he’ll move on.
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