Animal Farm

that night, our beloved lecturer, the one and only sir Mark show us a really rare movie that i've never watch and heard before, Animal Farm. This film is an adaptation from the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. this film focus on one major thing nowadays, which is POWER.

List of character:

• Napoleon
• Snowball
• Boxer
• Mr. Jones
• Squealer

its all about what happening in the farm. in this movie, the power and control of the farm shifts from Mr. Jones to Snowball and lastly to Napoleon.

Napoleon is the character that symbolized the power corruption. the name Napoleon was also taken from the French general in early of 18th century, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon is a significance of Joseph Stalin, a Soviet dictator. like Stalin, Napoleon used many propaganda and ideologies to make himself look good. at the same time, Napoleon simply changed the rule of the Farm to favor himself without making other animal noticed. Many of his new rules favor his own respect and popularity. Besides that, Napoleon also represents political tyrants in 20th century.

this film also trying to show the misuse of power. when one has the power, no matter how well their leadership are, they will tend to misuse the power. all the animals in the film seems weak except the three pigs. the pigs clearly took advantage of other animals by exploiting other animals weaknesses for their own good. for example, the pigs announced themselves as superior and they began to treat other animal like slaves.

animal farm also shows the significance about the power of words that are being used by the European countries to control the world nowadays. in the movie, the revolution of the animals seems fine and smooth until the three pigs lead by Napoleon began to dominate it. we can see in the movie, the are one commandment saying that 'all animals are equal'. but the pigs changed them into 'all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'. this shows how powerful words can be by distorting the facts and the truth.