So everyone knows antis try to get any media that is "sexually, morally reprehensible" taken down for being disturbing/disgusting/traumatizing, especially to children. Then they turn around and defend the most brutal of gore, endorsing minors to view graphic violence in media, as if that isn't also disturbing/disgusting/traumatizing?
Take this anecdotal evidence as a grain of salt, but whenever I bring up the movie Felidae to others, a fair amount of them being extreme antis, we all have seen the R rated movie for the first time when we were 11-13 years old, and agree that the movie traumatized us.
Then they all go on about how they loved the gore and violence, but were not ready and deeply traumatized by the one sex scene. (Those who have not seen the movie, it's a murder mystery with domestic cats. The sex scene is about 30 seconds long, and showed no genitalia.)
Meanwhile I sat alone, dumbfounded by the fact I was the only one who not only was okay with the sex scene, but liked it, yet was deeply traumatized by seeing cats be electrocuted, an ocean of rotting cat corpses, cat guts, and decapitated heads with the spines ripped out.
Antis have double standards against sexual acts in fiction while being in favor of violent acts in fiction because they just assume their personal experiences of was and wasn't distirbing in childhood will always and forever be universal among every person that has ever lived.
Ok, so there's this 1994 movie Felidae. Falls into the category of mature animation like Watership Down. These movies are singular, not part of a trend. They appear once every blue moon and are usually very interesting.
This movie though...
Ok, so it's based on a novel of the same name by turkish-german author Akif Pirinçci. Who is an alt-right speaker and has been to court several times for Volksverhetzung (kinda like sedition). A really serious charge, so presumably he's not a grifter. Even though the turkish minority is one of the prime targets of the German right.
But how's the movie? It's 30 years old, the novel is from 1989. People change, the author to right wing shithole pipeline is a thing.
The movie is kinda yikes. It's pretty homophobic for startes. I don't know how homophobic the time was, but considering it's a movie about talking cats, it's a feat it's homophobic at all. Castrated male cats are gay apparently. The villain is a eugenicist serial killer. How is it handled? Not much. The animation is saturday morning cartoon level of quality, cheap, weird angles and perspectives, unimaginative character design. The German voice acting is pretty good, because they got some pretty big names for the time somehow.
I don't know what I should think. I don't like it, but I also don't want to waste my time analysing why.
To make this movie the authors have not set limits. There is an investigative story, a compelling plot, will, blood and sex (or furry. I don't know which term to use), science and religion.
One thing is for sure though. This is not a film directed at children and explains its low diffusion. He could have fooled a lot of people with his innocent-looking drawing style.