This masterpiece is possibly the most most misunderstood and underated film of all time. While many people see it as a chance to cash in on the purple dinosaur personality who instructs children through television, it is in fact a harrowing dissection of the human subconscius.
The recurring image of the energy contained within the barn is representative of the violent, perhaps deviant tendencies repressed (not so deeply?) within the young human characters in the film.
The film then continues to raise questions about why the children struggle to release this energy. The image of the circus later in the oeuvre is especially indicative of the playful nature with which the children play with serious "philisophical danger", if you will.
This is a work that will haunt the more perceptive viewer for weeks, maybe months after seeing it.
The recurring image of the energy contained within the barn is representative of the violent, perhaps deviant tendencies repressed (not so deeply?) within the young human characters in the film.
The film then continues to raise questions about why the children struggle to release this energy. The image of the circus later in the oeuvre is especially indicative of the playful nature with which the children play with serious "philisophical danger", if you will.
This is a work that will haunt the more perceptive viewer for weeks, maybe months after seeing it.