I may be wildly mistaken in this, but since I saw Igor, I can't help thinking of the movie's premise in terms of its being an allegory of the (deliberately created) distortions that shape how people are nowadays sometimes persuaded to view the world. The film's portrayal of the pursuit of evil as if it were a virtue (arguably) mirrors the way a significant sector of modern society chooses to vaunt such negative qualities as oppression and the deliberate instilment of fear.
Maybe that was why I didn't particularly enjoy the film (although to be fair maybe the fact that I was the only person watching the screening I went to wasn't conducive to an enjoyable experience either!) I went expecting to spend a couple of hours of escapism from what the media sometimes persuades me is an all-too-brutish humanity - instead I found myself being rather uncomfortably reminded of man's inhumanity to both his own kind and many of the planet's other inhabitants.
Having said that I think the film is very well made, has numerous moments of wit and humour and is extremely imaginatively illustrated.
Some comments have described Igor as a purely children's' film. No one seems to have drawn any parallels with our present world (the film's dark clouds may be metaphores for psychologically created gloom). I just wanted to suggest that there may be more of relevance in Igor than meets the eye.
Maybe that was why I didn't particularly enjoy the film (although to be fair maybe the fact that I was the only person watching the screening I went to wasn't conducive to an enjoyable experience either!) I went expecting to spend a couple of hours of escapism from what the media sometimes persuades me is an all-too-brutish humanity - instead I found myself being rather uncomfortably reminded of man's inhumanity to both his own kind and many of the planet's other inhabitants.
Having said that I think the film is very well made, has numerous moments of wit and humour and is extremely imaginatively illustrated.
Some comments have described Igor as a purely children's' film. No one seems to have drawn any parallels with our present world (the film's dark clouds may be metaphores for psychologically created gloom). I just wanted to suggest that there may be more of relevance in Igor than meets the eye.