Ginger and Rocky bonding at the roof after Rocky had saved her life.She's back to her old self as soon as another way presents itself. At the top of the scene, she'd completely given up on escape for the simple logic that there was no way any more. Ginger coming out of her Heroic BSoD the second the crate becomes a possibility.This means that Ginger could have escaped from the farm long ago but chose not to because she refused to leave any hen behind. During an early conversation between the two, Ginger tells Rocky that it's easy to get one chicken or two out but the problem is getting all of them out.A little dark, but it's sweet that the chickens are looking out for one another Bunty even states she would have shared her eggs with Edwina had she known. When it's discovered that Edwina hasn't laid any eggs, we find out that the chickens will often share eggs with one another when they're at risk of being taken away and killed due to low egg production.TLDR: Go to Auschwitz, re-watch Chicken Run, try very very hard indeed to not cry. And still more in my opinion as it got me again over 15 years later - as the great machine first fires up in the barn and every chicken looks on with dread, the camera backs away through the gates and you see the farm building closely resembling final destination train entrance to Auschwitz. It's a family film, made with great tact, a delicate touch, and deservedly earns every praise. I can watch it like I used to, of course. That re-watch is like watching it for the first time. And then I quickly re-ran the film in my head and knew I had to watch it again. Sooner or later you do hit a saturation point, though it was here in one of the housing blocks I saw the three-tiered wooden bunks, and it hit me all at once that they were just like the chicken roosts in Chicken Run. It's a low point in our human history, and your mind is well and truly revulsed by what went on there. Every corner opens up a new horror, very new and raw, and yet somehow you've seen those scenes before, the influence of the place is so heavily referenced on screen. There are too many things in that place to process all at once. By the time you're in Birkenau you're already been changed from a slightly bored-what-shall-we-do-today tourist, but some of the most impactful sights are yet to come: Nearly everything has been preserved and you're hit with some very powerful truths in a shirt space of time. Then, as you explore and learn and it dawns on you exactly what went on where you're standing, your mind gets very serious as it's quite a lot to process if you're the imaginative type. Of course I knew Chicken Run was based on this theme, I'm not daft, but it's the level of detail I missed when taken out of context sitting in a comfy theatre that hit me hard when walking round Birkenau.įirst it was barbed wire fence at Auschwitz I, Aardman got those spot on, but my mind was still on The Great Escape so it was cool to be able to make a link from screen to reality that way at first. All the connections I hadn't made before suddenly made sense, a little too much sense. OK, that's a bit dramatic for a post, but we honestly don't know how lucky we are to not have known this place firsthand and I have several jumbled, angry and emotional words, none of which are up to the job of explaining the impact of visiting that god-forsaken place had on me. It's such a harrowing and humbling experience that I firmly believe everyone of age should go through so that we never commit those atrocities ever again.
I hadn't thought about Chicken Run for about a decade when I went to Poland a couple of years ago, and visited Auschwitz I and II (Birkenau).įirst off, everyone on the planet should visit (though not all at once, please form a queue).
Lots of things in the film stayed with me, all of them mentioned in other comments and I completely agree, I got the DVD when I could! Great film: cool story, funny characters, and a feel-good ending really puts a smile on your face :-) I went and saw it at the cinema when it was out and remember loads of laugh-out-loud moments, really cool.
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