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I happened to see Shaun the Sheep Movie. The critics claim the movie has no message, but I think on the contrary the movie shows how the elites see us and can be seen as a more or less full allegory.

The movie has major parallels with Orwell's Animal Farm and isn't particularly subtle about it. The clearest example may be the pigs taking over the house and behaving like humans.

However Shaun the Sheep also has major differences with Animal Farm. Animal Farm allegorically portrays an idealistic Communist revolution that gets corrupted and in the end results in a tyranny of the few. The sheep in Shaun the Sheep in contrast do not have the imagination or moral conviction to become ideologues or the mental capacity to run the farm on their own. They do not even really want a revolution, but things merely get out of hand, symbolized by the trailer careening out of control down the road all the way to the city. Shaun gets the original impetus for his hijink from seeing an advertisement on the side of a bus. The movie makes fun of how the sheep despite money and human disguises still don't know how to behave in a fancy restaurant because they are sheep.

The farmer is a person who joins the cabal and finds worldly success and spiritual liberation. In the city he becomes famous and successful without much in the way of real talent (he can only do one type of haircut) because of convenient media promotion. A brief scene even shows the amnesiac farmer posing for an advertisement with one eye covered. In the final scene the tearing of the to-do list with ten things to do can be seen as rejection of the Ten Commandments and the traditional morals and wholly accepting Satanism. This is shown as liberating, even though in real life to-do lists to keep track of necessary tasks serve to reduce stress and keep things organized in a good way.

The sheep dog is a willing minion who puts up with bad treatment in exchange for being supplied with his favorite thing. He acts logically most of the time, but loses all rationality when given a chance at a bone. This can be seen as him being controlled by his boner badly enough to do anything for a few bones thrown from his masters.

Animal control represents human traffickers. The only customers that come to adopt a pet despite the problems with the signage are a male couple with a child. The chosen pet is a chameleon, which can be seen as the movie saying that deceptive cold-blooded psychopaths who can manipulate other people get ahead in life. This fits with what we see about the chameleon's personality. All the captive animals - except for the naive lamb from Shaun's flock - try to behave the same way, but the chameleon is the one who succeeds.

The bull is Moloch. He saves the main characters in the end.

In the end the sheep get locked up in their shack again, and this is supposed to be a happy ending. The unruly masses are put in their place. The unofficial sheep leader Shaun develops an understanding with the sheep dog, implying that the masses will be kept in better control now that their immediate leadership is compromised and siding with the elites.

Shaun the Sheep is made by Aardman Animations. The original shorts were done for the BBC. A sequel called A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is coming out, which based on the promotional materials will feature pizza.

The logo of Aardman Animations has an upside-down red star. Symbolism will be their downfall.

Aardman Animations is physically located in the Aztec West business park. It's an interesting name, considering that the Aztecs are best known for their human sacrifices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardman_Animations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_West

The name Aztec West is supposedly derived from "A to Z of Technology". In this light it's interesting that the Google's parent company just happens to be a technology company called Alphabet. Maybe Alphabet here is not just a reference to the alphabet agencies.