The division of the term pet\animal itself illustrates the class division of the animal world in human cities: basically, Mike, Duke, Tweet, and eagles, cats, birds, and old dogs form a "pet camp." Rabbits, pigs, lizards, crocodiles, and poisonous snakes constitute the "animal camp."
Compared with the human world, both pets and animals are in a situation of oppression and enslavement. Especially the animal rebel army led by my rabbit dormant in the sewer world of New York, attacking human rulers through guerrilla warfare. Although the living environment is dark, these "animals" are all former "pets" that escaped from the devil's claws of humans. , They are fighting for freedom through violent revolution smashing the chains.
For "animal", "pet" is a derogatory term, similar to the terms we talk about comprador, minion, fake foreign devil, traitor. And the establishment of this underground animal resistance army began almost from Wells’s "Time Machine". The class opposition was portrayed as a binary opposition between the ground (Iro) and the underground (Morok) (but "Time Machine" "The underground ethnic groups in "live in a dominant\predatory position).
Similar settings continue in Hollywood, such as Stallone’s "The Dragon in the Sky", which talks about the future of the United States in 2032. There is a "civilized society" on the ground that looks "politically correct" but failed in it, and the reality is a cruel society. But it exists underground. This model is almost exactly the same as "The Secret Life of Pets", and the slightly neurotic rabbit is the leader of the underground resistance (this setting is very similar to Brad in "The Twelve Monkeys" Pete), it leads the animals who have broken free from human enslavement to launch a guerrilla-style uprising struggle.
This is easily reminiscent of "The Rebellion of Salamander", "Animal Farm" or "Rise of the Apes", animals have become excellent metaphors. What Mike, Tweet and Tweet represent is the pet camp that surrendered to human enslavement and only wanted to "temporarily stabilize the slaves"-when Mike and Duke accidentally separated from their masters, they were "pets" Immediately become Liushen without a master, they just want to return to their master as soon as possible and continue to live a worry-free slave life.
Especially the Pomeranian tweeted, representing the high-class slaves who were used to the "upper life". The neat and delicate appearance and the dirty and smelly rebel animals have a completely class-discriminatory opposition in the appearance setting (the "weak" The young lady had fragrant sweat, and the "stupid as cow" workers had stinky sweat), and when Tweet and Tweet struggled with the team looking for Mike, she also gave an impassioned announcement to the dogs, cats, and birds, "We are all The "dog dog" speech is tantamount to a tweeted political declaration. For it, it is to be a "dog", to be enslaved by humans, if it cannot be enslaved, then it must do everything possible to return to the state of being enslaved. Go in.
The forced awakening of the rabbit became an unacceptable plot. Until the end, the little master who fell from the sky could only soften the rabbit-this was obviously hit by a sugar-coated cannonball, and returned from "I want to be a slave but can't" The state of "temporarily stabilized as a slave". It can be seen that this kind of hooligan and proletarian struggle that shouted "revolutionary" slogans and robbed a few prison vans would eventually cease due to the lack of a systematic, scientific struggle program and vanguard.
Human beings are oppressors, exploiting classes, and imperialism. The animal rebels in the sewers are in the spark of violent revolution and national independence. At this time, pets have become the national bourgeoisie in the class struggle, and part of them. Raised by human masters, and even become a running dog of the ruler, becoming an accomplice of the division and disintegration of the rebel army-for example, several protagonists in "The Secret Life of Pets".
Watching "The Secret Life of Pets", you will find that class struggle has never been far away from us.
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