Fantastic Planet story
Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage, Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. The Wild Planet) is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor. The allegorical story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien point of view | major | We saw what it was like for humans to be treated as pets by the Draggs, in much the same as how dogs and cats are treated as pets by humans. |
| alternate points of view | major | We saw what it was like for humans to be treated as pets by the Draggs, in much the same as how dogs and cats are treated as pets by humans. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The gargantuan blue humanoid Draags had brought human beings from Earth to the planet Ygam. |
| facing an overpowering adversary | major | The savage humans were under constant threat of being exterminated by the vastly more powerful Draags who considered the savage humans to be vermin. |
| human vs. captivity | major | The Draggs had brought human beings to their homeworld and were keeping them as pets. Terr's captivity was particularly featured. |
| master and pet | major | Tiwa kept the human child, which she named Terr, as her pet. In general, the Draggs kepy humans as pets. |
| what if I was somebody's pet | major | We saw Terr experience of being Tiwa's pet. |
| father and daughter | minor | Tiwa and her father Master Sinh. |
| mother and daughter | minor | Tiwa and her mother. |
| plug-in learning device | minor | The Draags used a kind of headband to transfer knowledge more or less directly into the brain. |