Blog Guy, the Oscars are a few days away, and you haven’t offered any opinions.
Look, I’ll be brutally honest. Every year the Academy snubs the Tokyo Zoo Security movie, and I’ve just reached my boiling point.
Last year they ignored the sweetly nuanced “Orangutan Tantrum,” and now they’ve overlooked “Zebra Zeal,” the most poignant 76 seconds you’ll ever see.
The black-and-white zebra represents our drab workaday world, and the need to break out. Once free, he finds what’s important in life: children, color and people to trample on.
But then the brutal jackboot of authority comes down on him in a violent third act, and the message is clear. Anyway, you watch it, and then tell me if you’re still so impressed by that Daniel Day-Lewis guy.
REUTERS photo by Johannes Eisele
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