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BSA106 Watership Down

Watership down (1978) was directed by Martin Rosen and based on the novel by Richard Adams. It was sold as a children's movie and given a U rating despite the violence and adult themes that run throughout. In 2012 the BBFC said that it had received complaints about the U rating every year since the films release. The movie touches on themes of environmentalism, companionship, freedom versus confinement and political structures. The film portrays the rabbits as they are on the search for a new home when their old warren is destroyed by humans who want to use the land to develop upon without care for the wildlife that lives on it. A group of rabbits defy their chief in order to escape their fate. Along the way the rabbits work together to help one another as their leader, Hazel, refuses to let the weakest fall behind. As the story progresses, the audience are introduced to other warrens and the way they are run. The most prominent of these warrens is one run by a ruthless and fasci

BSA106 Films or animations that blew my mind

I remember watching the first Harry Potter movie in the cinema when I was quite small and I thought the magic looked real and it blew my mind. The film Donnie Darko still blows my mind because it's so crazy and confusing to watch. The film The Butterfly Effect also blew my mind because it really makes you think about how one thing leads to another, and how a small decision can lead to a life change. A Beautiful Mind blew my mind because the way it is edited is done so well that the film makes the viewer paranoid. I thought that the way they did it was very successful at conveying the turmoil in the main character's mind on screen.