The Gruesome Animated Movie Ending That Stays With Fans
Out of every mature cartoon movies I have ever viewed, no other has stuck with me as much as the fear-filled conclusion of the explicitly bloody as well as overwhelingly transgressive 2022 movie The Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, the Spain-based writer-director developed a grim, melancholy , frequently brutal universe that included some tiny , desolate glimmers of hope.
Although The Unicorn Wars feels like it came from an impulse to expand the medium further, the director explained that it was more a try to express a widespread, cross-cultural message concerning “the shared root of every conflict.”
This theme is expressed through a squad of colorful pastel bears , openly based on a popular line of cuddly characters.
Growing up in a culture focused on warmongering and the defense industry, many of these animals are consumed by exterminating unicorns, due to a religious scripture that tells them they previously were kings of the forest, before the horned beings drove them out.
Others haven’t fully fallen for the indoctrination, and would rather try out drugs and fornicate in the forest.
Unlike their cuddly equivalents, these colorful critters have visible genitals and definite sex drives.
For a particular particularly cruel, pessimistic creature, the bear named Bluey, the conflict against the unicorns turns into a path to power — and especially to supremacy above his more tender, nicer brother the character Tubby.
This bear is a bully and a seeming sociopath , and while terror takes over his unit and kills his teammates individually, he seizes increasingly influence for himself, through ever more violent, destructive ways.
Meanwhile, these mythical beings are enduring their own horror, through a growing, destructive monster in their forest.
“Initially, it feels like a humorous movie,” the director said. “But then it turns into a more dramatic and sorrowful film. And in the finale, it becomes a scary feature.”
The Unicorn Wars commences resembling among the playful features by a legendary animator, that discover a mischievous joy in letting animated figures curse, shoot each other, or have intimate relations.
Subsequently it becomes closer to a bleaker work from that director, including ever more graphic violence , a tangible connection to genuine suffering of conflict.
In the finale, it’s a full-on extreme drama bloodbath.
The fear that turns this a Halloween-friendly movie kicks in much sooner than that description suggests.
The Unicorn Wars is ideal for the hardcore lovers of violence, for enthusiasts of intense movies who wish to see a movie they haven’t ever watched previously, and can endure a story that pulls absolutely no punches.
Watch it in a dark room without any distractions, and that ending will dig deep within you and stay with you.
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