Director: Jan Svankmajer
Cast: Veronika Zilkova Jan Hartl
Footage: 125min
Year: 2000
Based on an old Czech folk tale.
Karel and Bozena are a married couple, and they desperately want a child. But it have been unable to conceive. One day, Karel is digging up an old tree stump when it occurs to him that the roots look a bit like a baby; He brings the stump home and carves it into the image of a child. They name their new child Otik. Bozena’s maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a monstrous appetite that can’t be met with baby formula. Otik begins eating stray animals and even people……
Jan Svankmajer was born in Prague, 4th September, 1934. He loved surrealist film from he was studing in the school. Then he studied the Europe puppet show, the living theatre, poem writing, and the film production, and so on. His artefacts always using any kinds of element: bread, wood, crockery and so on..
‘Little Otik’ is one of his famous films, it is not only a surrealist film, but also a animadvertion film, very bitingly and profundity. It reflect the human’s desire and the other relism issues. Everyone do everything in order to get what himself or herself want. Just like Karel in the film, she always protect Otik, she knows Otik eating people clearly. And the girl in the film, she just care about the sex. And the father in the film, he hadn’t kill Otik, because he think Otik is his son, although Otik has no kin with him.
We can find the love and the seamy side of people in this film.
And Jan Svankmajer hadn’t use the high-tech of cartoon produce in this film, he just want to show the actual side and compact menu. He took a lot of close shot and close-up, just want to give the viewer to see the Otik clearly. Not just see Otik, but see the love and seamy side of people.
I think this film make me unhappy, but indubitability it’s a good film, for the way of production and the conceive of Jan Svankmajer.
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