# 2025-08-23 - La Planet Sauvage by René Laloux
       
 (IMG) Oms En Série (book cover)
       
       Oms En Série (graphic novel cover) [1]
       
       A friend sent me a link to Fantastic Planet (1973), a surreal French
       science fiction animation.  I finally got around to watching it.  The
       pace is a little slow.  The content is almost psychedelic.  One
       review calls it a retro-futurist Alice In Wonderland.  Spot on!
       
       In a nutshell, aliens domesticate humans as pets, with unintended
       consequences.  What i enjoyed the most was the soundtrack, which was
       downright ambient and groovy at times, and incorporating cheesy
       arcade-style synths at others.
       
       Below [2] is a link to watch the English translation.
       
       The movie is based on a French language book, Ohms In Series [3],
       which sounds like a terrible electronics pun to me.  Resistance is
       futile. It has also been adapted to a three volume graphic novel.
       
       The Wikipedia page has spoilers for the animation [4].
       
       p.s.
       
       This brings to mind another excellent animation and graphic novel on
       this same theme: Dream of a Thousand Cats.  The animation by
       Hisko Hulsing based on the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.
       
       Dream Cat illustration [5]
       
       As before, the Wikipedia page [6] contains spoilers.
       
       tags: counterculture,sci-fi,video
       
       # Footnotes
       
 (IMG) [1] Oms En Série (graphic novel cover)
       
 (HTM) [2] Fantastic Planet (1973) English Dub
       
 (TXT) [3] Ohms In Series by Stefan Wul (wikipedia)
       
 (TXT) [4] Fantastic Planet (wikipedia) (spoiler warning)
       
 (IMG) [5] Dream Cat illustration
       
 (TXT) [6] Dream of a Thousand Cats (wikipedia) (spoiler warning)
       
       # Tags
       
 (DIR) counterculture
 (DIR) sci-fi
 (DIR) video