The mice made two critical mistakes: 1) They didn't use more bombs. 2) They didn't plan for or even consider the inevitable retaliation. Edit: I never expected such a response to this comment. Thanks for the upvotes!
it seems they didn't even think that there was a civilization of cats there, seeing one monster that comes and spoils their lives perhaps this could be compared with some kind of tribe on a hot continent on whose territory the enterprise of an international corporation has settled and pumps water for sale - and their capabilities will figure out how this is due to the fact that somewhere in another country other people are promoting the idea that selling water for money will allow it to be used more wisely, and therefore water resources should be privatized - In the sense that for them this is just one problem, which hardly sets out the nature of the processes behind it, requiring specific information, access to which, depending on, for example, language barriers, may or may not be)
" This film was written in 2003, and was a reaction to the geopolitical situation at the time...sadly, in almost 20 years, not much has changed. " -This message was probably Relevant 4000 years ago...
@@oberonpanopticon Anarchy is a poorly understood ideology, explain where the power vacuum is in a nation of 250 million armed citizens, with shared ethical values. Power in the hands of the people is NOT a vacuum.
The mice got annihilated by a stronger greedy enemy who sought to subjugate then enslave them. Methinks they should have fought back from the onset, not appeased their greedy immoral subjugator and enslaver. Nonetheless this wasn’t funny at all. It was a tragedy. We witnessed genocide of a peaceful species by another brutal and immoral and entitled species who felt they reserved the right to exterminate the innocent rodents. This was actually depressing and brought a tear to my eye - because this is an accurate parody of human nature at its very worst 😢
bro, I think it's incredible how the mice really thought that ONE cat was consuming all the yellow cakes they were making every day and all in a GIGANTIC tower
Well, I mean they slaughtered all the soldiers so probably the guys delivering the cakes were soldiers and died in the rebellion. So they didn't expect to have a whole city in there
@@FibinianRepublicIn this case, I still find it strange how they didn't look at eh... some record from the king, he probably must have noted down about feline society because of this trade
The mistake was complacency, they forgot about the terror of the cat that was eating them when they had money they should have used it to develop weapons against the cats instead of hoarding it and the king became corrupt and oppressive against his people which eventually ended up with them being destroyed.
That falls on the king for being complacent and letting corruption get to him An intimidating grasshopper once said "first rule of leadership... everything is YOUR fault.
With what resources? With what manpower? They're in a coercive "trade" relationship, they either provide for the greater authority or they die. Their first violent interactions were devastating, even if they somehow grew a sufficient military, even if they matched in power, they would still be intrinsically unable to match the production of the greater nation; who would, of course, possess greater industry. It would be, at its very best, a war of attrition. It is _strictly_ the fault of the greater authority in regards to imperialist, neo-colonialist, and libertarianist implementations and their consequences. Do not blame the oppressed for being oppressed.
@@rabbitonsteroids95 I think it has something to do with the way the animation strips for this film were preserved, you know those rolling film projectors with reels, same reason IMax theaters exist, same reason if you wanted to watch a Christopher Nolan movie in 8K in the future you'll be able to do so with help of those strips
I have been using this in class since 2011 to teach about how imperialism works. As I have learned more about how modern imperialism works, I always notice new analogies and symbolism. I have kids from 8 years ago come up to me and ask me if I still show Yellow Cake. It sticks with them. About to show it today! Thank you.
From our view: The cat provoked the mice first, and only some of the mice did a terrorist attack as a revenge. From mice view: Cats has tried to destroy their town, if they do not eliminate or stop the cats from attacking forever, they might die instead, so some mice attacked the cats with a terrorist attack. From cats view: The cats might not know that one cat have attacked the mice, and since they knew the mice attacked them, they instantly think the mice are up to no good, therefore, even the cat king have decided to attack the mice, to stop future attacks from mice. All the cats have the same mindset, and finally, even the soldier of the cats were happy that they eliminated the mice. The cats even killed the mice that were fleeing but since they think all mice are up to no good or as payback, they even killed the fleeing mice.
Humanity isn’t inherently like that. Human behavior is a response to outwards stimuli of the environment, society, or culture. We made ourselves like this We could undo it.
@@itsmrbigsmoke862We were hunter-gatherers living in democratic tribes for nearly our whole history. And Imperialism didn’t exist to this extent before Capitalism.
@@Owlbearwolf2 completely wrong! Human tribes were not "democratic" in any way and were not anywhere near peaceful like you make it out to be. Yes we were hunter-gatherers but that's actually what led to imperialism. You had some meat or some berries that I wanted, so I'd get my friends to beat you within an inch of your life so that I could take it. A lot of the time there wouldn't even be a fight, one side would understand that they had to give something up in order to avoid bloodshed. Those stronger tribes are what later became empires and then even later, countries. As for the "democracy", I've got no idea where you heard that. It's not like they would have elections, they would just fight until it was determined who was strongest. And if that person sucked, they'd sometimes team up to overthrow that person. That's as close to democratic as it would get. In fact you should research chimps, they show a lot of behavior that early humans exhibited. Including imperialism! It's quite interesting
I just watched this yesterday! It's sadly remarkable how much this holds up in the present day. Thanks for taking the time to make it HD and bring the subject matter some much needed light.
@@totalbadass500it's a very well known general issue. Why tf would it not hold up? Care to give a few examples on the "so many" cartoons that don't hold up?
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Shows like Big mouth, recent seasons of The Simpsons, Code Lyoko. Just because it's a well known issue doesn't mean that it automatically gets greenlit as a good video. A lot of time and skill went into this video and that can still be seen today.
@@Luminesfvo If you search Vietnam war photos on the internet surely there's one of a little girl and a boy who are walking away crying on a road with soldiers on the back. If i'm not wrong, the little girl survived and they made an interview with her many years ago.
@@klon_enдавай угадаю... США, Великобритания, Франция? Ан-нет, это же другое. 😂 Капитализм столетиями наживался на экспорте ресурсов и контроле за технологиями и распределением благ. Как думаешь, почему страны Зап.Европы и США живут так хорошо, а их бывшие колонии и "союзники" (читай клиенты) в Африке и в Азии, в массе своей, не очень хорошо? Во всем виновата КНДР, не иначе... Слышал о бойне на Чеджу? Когда Южно Корейский диктатор Ли Сын Ман, с помощью американского контингента подавил местных несогласных, отнюдь не демократическим путем... А суть истории в том, что США прибрали к рукам японскую собственность на юге Кореи и не горели желанием возвращать её под контроль единому корейскому правительству, саботируя всех кандидатов, на намечавшихся выборах (под эгидой ООН), кроме своего, а следовательно, нужна была марионетка, на первых ролях в правительстве отдельной Южной Кореи, иллюзия свободы.
This is human nature showing. The only thing they could do is to bunker down. Spread out, advance themselves, wait for the cats to become complacent and entirely dependent on them as they become more and more lazy due to everything being handed to them without real work. Wait for the cats to fail at developing due to them not having the pain. Of reality and become weak. Wait for the cats to make a massive mistake and then take a massive strike on them to "fix" the arangement... I think this is a metaphor for real life some how... I can't put my finger on it... This ofcorse will repeat again in the future as the new winners will repeat the process as humanity slowly develops more tech but the same nature behind it.
@@thesuperbasearmor812 exactly... China's communist motto was supposedly "Bide Your Time." And freak Zs now are saying "oh, Iran is scared huh? Lol." Russia is playing the same game, just doing a worse job than the other two. As the US is outsourcing everything overseas and creating jobs that ultimately mean nothing, it is weakening itself. If this country invested in itself instead of just funneling capital to elites who produce _zero,_ we wouldn't be in this mess. But hey, America was built on actions like the fat cat... there's just also a whole WORLD out there to deal with.
The ending was a really good example of todays media. At one point you can be watching the horrors of war televised from your local news and at the press of a button you can change the channel. I swear it makes people more desensitized.
@@thatrandomguy8567 It’s not my place to lecture people on what types of information they consume, and neither is it yours. Its nature and apart of human nature as cliche as it sounds to shut off information they dont typically like, from dissenting opinions to pieces of information like the My lai massacre for example, whats your solution anyways? Forcing it in peoples face and causing them to likely disagree with you?
@@Randomusername56782 “bUt HuMaN nAtUrE!!!” That bullshit argument has been long debunked. To quote a certain show: “What are you, a scorpion in a Navaho fable? Everything can change their nature.”
Doubt it... China doesn't care about theirs as their goal is genocide. Saudi Arabia sterilised their african slaves. The vikings didn't care who lived or died, so their slave trade in Ireland was profiting for them but also not having enemies around to hit them back was also beneficial... both dead or a slave you serve a purpose to you enemies...
@@Bdraws882a grenade launcher, rocket launcher, bombs, etc. AOT in the modern day would last 1 week at max. They struggle to be successful in the WW1 climate of paradis.
Something about this sounds familiar. I don’t want to say it because I could be wrong. Can you elaborate on what this story is about specifically, maybe give a hint?
Oh, This girl is actually from my country, In fact, during the Vietnam War, America bombed the Truong Son Mountains or Viet Cong facilities in five countries.
I understand the meaning of this movie, the cat represents the western capitalist company or the old bourgeois family The rat is a person at the bottom of society Capitalist companies always take advantage of resources in other countries using tricks that I don't know, such as coups or human rights repression, for example. In fact, there are countries that have always resisted approaching capitalist owners, such as Iraq, which is nationalizing the oil industry to avoid monopolies, for example. Actually, I only know about that, but I'll give lil sis a phone
Apparently the secret to winning this game is to produce everything, not just the yellow cake, and keep doing it until the cats become complacent. By that time you'll be manufacturing all their weapons too.
The cats keep their weapons and keep invading other countries (Irak, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lybia...) edit: sry not Ukraine, I can instead write "A 2016 study by Carnegie Mellon University professor Dov Levin found that the United States intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, with the majority of those being through covert, rather than overt, actions.[95][96] A 2021 review of the existing literature found that foreign interventions since World War II tend overwhelmingly to fail to achieve their purported objectives."
@@ValorGuard who ever has the power at any given time. the bakers are weak so they get trod under by any who has the power to do so. not the most pleasant characteristic of civilization but a true one none the less
Love how here the mice seemed like terrorists to the cats and the ending , being just news a cat that has nothing to do with it might just say “those pasky mice at it again” without knowing the whole story
The whole story: The mice leader was a greedy scumbag who, although was paid millions by the cats, didn't actually invest in his country's agricultural or food production industry. And apparently not its military either since all of his army were complete incompetent fools. If he actually gave a damn about his own people, then he could maintain the original food source or seek a new one that's not complete shit. Or he could quietly go on the offensive against his malfactors.
Es muy de la historia de EUA con México, EUA con China, con Cuba, con Rusia, con Colombia y con Oriente medio. EUA son los gatos y todos son ratones, antes de la existencia o llegada de EUA todas las naciones que fueron potencia y prósperos hace 700 o 60 años atrás se encuentran en decadencia por los intereses de EUA; y si se toman sus intereses, EUA los acusa de terroristas.
All dead? Ok, at least the suffering came to a stop. Im surprised the blue guy never got ready for a war. They really thought that all the cats would be dead after that hu. They were to kind for this world.
It's a reference to show the hypocrisy of the US's war in the middle east. The US starts flexing, the leader of the time makes a deal for "the country's safety" then that leader becomes corrupt, they get overthrown, the people of that country retaliate towards the US in the form of terrorism, then the US comes in with "morals and ethics" to stop the "terrorists" by method of shock and awe.
@@el_blanco_loco Mmmm. No fragging....I guess the cats never told their people the truth. Can't fight back against Injustice if you don't know about the injustice.
your missing the point that it was a little isolated village with no outside contact, while there was a whole civilization out there with advanced tech. They never stood a chance
@justadude8716 I didn't say they stood a chance...I said I was surprised they thought they were going to be left alone after making bombs. they really are isolated if they never thought the cats that were at first eating them mind you weren't about to murder them all. Bombs and nothing else show their innocence.
@@Reich_marshall_A6 At the time, in both world wars, Germany was a powerful and insanely considerable force to go to war with. WW2 was minorly lucked, with appeasement and with no allied offensives in the early war and the Soviet military purges. However, in both world wars without a doubt germany was without a doubt one of or the strongest military power in Europe.
@@veenaraina5922 Powerful till they attacked the Soviet union in world war 2 And only saved itself by surrendering in world war 1. A bit of irony if it surrenders despite being strong
If these politicians did their job well, the cats would get to enjoy cakes and the little guys would live in prosperity. But it was probably the workers who were blamed for not doing their job well and were forced to work even more… Great work here! Love the animation and the colours, and the plot too! Please make more.
Well the issue here was that the cats seemed to not give a shit after the mouse leader was killed and over thrown. We quite literally see them completely detached from the situation. Not only that but they continue to buy the yellow cakes, even their leader who not only is buying them but is shown to be seemingly bored and disinterested until what appeared to be a group of mouse political extremist used the cakes to launch a terror attack at which point the cats brought the hammer down on the mice.
What do you mean? The politicians did their job perfectly. Have you not been alive for the past 4 US presidential elections? Politicians aren't doing their job apparently unless poor people are working all the time just to struggle to pay rent and feed themselves with cheap unhealthy food. "Oh you weren't born into a family rich enough to give you advantages in our society? Wellp, here's the production line: if you die we'll just pull you off the line and replace you and continue business as usual."
6:17 9/11 6:29 Finding out the perpetrators 6:37 national crisis just like real life 😱😱😱 6:53 oh hey its bush 7:01 US Military sent 7:26 *war on terror incident*
I think a lot of people here push whatever they believe as a lesson. No, doing nothing would have destroyed their village, and compliance without rebelling over their captors would have allowed them to survive. However the truth is the captors were unreasonably stronger and there was no method to match their strength. The only way this village could have survived is to retreat and hide from the oppressors (the cats).
It's not like they didn't really have a solution. After all, size is a double-edged tool. It's not like cats couldn't find them if they wanted to. Rather, they went through a series of mistakes: their leader, who sold his people to a foreign force, their people, who decided that it was enough to scare a foreign force. Could they have better distributed these resources to achieve justice (or more subtle suppression of discontent, which also works)? Apparently, yes. Could they have studied the society of cats better, taken protective measures, perhaps infiltrated this society by bribing the defenders with pies? Probably. The problem is that their strong government acted in its own interests, while the other did not act at all.
@@impelau honestly I’m not sure. I agree with you but I believe I myself have bias and that there is no perfect answer or interpretation. I believe that’s the beauty behind this. History repeats anyways, just with different people
The channel change at the end was a very sobering conclusion. As someone living in the United States I can just “turn off” the horrors going across the world whenever I want by ignoring it
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. That was the best part in my opinion, all that death and destruction playing out, and the person just changes the channel after everything is done.
There's a kind of modern day condition where folks who watch too much of the news become dangerously depressed and hopeless. I forget the term, but it's a real thing. There's too much tragedy in the world for us all to process it properly, and not a lot the average American citizen can do about every single thing. If one is disabled - physically, mentally, and/or emotionally - there may not be a lot the person can do about even *one* thing. It's one thing to be empathetic, which needs to happen. But it's definitely overwhelming at times, and we need to sometimes focus on things that *aren't* totally awful. If you want towards making things a little better, that's great! But one can't do that *and* try focusing on all the bad they *can't* assist with at the same time. We all do what we can.
@@explodingpotatosforeveryonecorrection: not after everything is done; only after they won the war. There is still a need for the mice to rebuild their nation or be annihilated.
Perhaps this is too far stretched, but one detail I paid attention to is the military equipment, specifically helmets. The Baker infantry helmet are shaped like Danish WW2 helms with a crown insignia similar to Sweden's, while the Cat infantry helmet are shaped like German stahlhelms. I'd like to interpret it as: 1. The Cats and Bakers have similar ethnic/racial roots, implying that despite rooted similarities, one's greed still dominate 2. It is a visual nod to the German occupation of Denmark
Damn that’s insane tracing, I would say this does accurately display the overall theme of history, just in a more symbolic manner rather than being far stretched
This is historical accurate. Whose history you ask ? Human history. Always were, always will be. Cheer to you creator(s), you summarize all human history in few minutes.
The bakers had guns and weapons, which makes you think, if they fought back when the first cat arrived to eat them, none of that would have necessarily happened.
They were funked from the start. Kill one cat, and another will come with less motivation to bargain. They were overpowered from the beginning and had no chance.
@@BonnieBunny118 you know the alternative, even the mices saw the alternative, the problem is that they didn't plan for or even consider the inevitable retaliatiation of an external threat
It's baffling how everyone seems to slightly miss the point : some people are arguing the mice should have done this or that but the truth is there is nothing they could have done. The cats are to blame. This is a simple metaphor for imperialism, you could apply it to Iraq for example : the british installed the Hashemite king in 1921 so they could exploit the country's oil at an unfair price. The population remained poor and the political climate very instable but the power was kept aligned with the west through American intervention. All those years of oppression nurtured a profound hate of the west, eventually leading to 9/11 and the following Iraq invasion, with the complete destruction of the country and 600,000 dying. Just so a few could profit.
9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. 9/11 was the justification for Afghanistan. The official justification for Iraq, 2 years after Afghanistan, was that Iraq was hiding WMDs and wouldn’t let UN inspectors.
It was written in 2003 and "based on geopolitical events", per description. If the author DIDN'T have 9/11 on the brain, it would be surprising. Who didn't?
And yet, who can blame the cats? Most of them had no idea what was going on, only realizing anything was happening at all once a tower blew up. There's very few responses that can be taken in the face of such an atrocity, and violence is the most obvious response to violence.
The west was not the only entities operating in or oppressing the middle east, and their attack on the US was based in religious fundamentalism. Was it more acceptable oppression when it was the Ottomans? If they truly wanted to strike back at their oppressors they should have looked internally.
this is an exquisite essay. timeless, because not much has changed. This film for me is a summary of America and big corp, how they have strip-mined any nation they see fit for their own advancement. The last 3 scenes of fun tv being replaced by hard music and smoking gun-toting cat and the comedian cat - that is like the media arm of the beast that keeps its subjects entranced
@@dyazsgameplayandrandomvide3259 All BUT extinct. there just MIGHT... *MIGHT* be at least one or two survivors that escaped the "genocidal" massacre...
becsuse it represents the occidental view, the war only apears a few times in some channels, but even so you can change channels and ignore the situation completely, even if your country committed a genocide the mice are seem as the terroorists and that they deserved their destruction due to lack of consciousness among the cats
I see ordinary people striking for reasonable pay. The hardest jobs are the lowest paid jobs & it breaks my heart that most of these people struggle to make ends meet … Violence, greed & propaganda are used to oppress. The civil wars are inevitable. This cartoon articulates how many feel without much dialogue &, in my opinion, that is morbidly beautiful. I discovered your channel through your mind-blowing cartoon, *The Clockwork Elves.* I don’t need to explain why I like that cartoon … 😂 This really is beautiful, bro. My only selfish criticism is that you don’t upload often enough. With that being said, I also understand why. Quality over quantity &, oh my word, this is quality. You have a subscriber for life in me. ❤
@@unbearablysmug2437 Hmmmmmmm, nah, bro, it depends what job & what you define as poorly paid / underpaid. Firefighters, police officers, paramedics, surgeons, military staff, nurses & teachers can be underpaid, depending on where you’re from. If you were from the real world, YOU would know this.
@@xbulelo wow you somehow managed to not address anything I said, you are either retrded or pretending to be retrded. If you're trolling then respect, I guess you got me.
“This is clearly a critique on [specific ideology or government doctrine I don’t like]” - Comment Section. It’s not one thing or the other. Rather it’s human nature as a whole, this scenario plays out regardless of the parties involved.
Not really, it very much is about Western Capitalism specially since it was written in 2003 when the US was hard at work to kill 1 million human beings in Iraq
First scene: The life of small nations living by their normal culture. The cat arriving and attacking represents foreign nations colonizing and seeking to expand their influence. The town Mayor offers a resource the cat doesn't have in their original land so they accept, representing the start of trade and commerce. "To protect the village, sacrifices must be made.": The town Mayor is aware that if they stop the resource trade, the cat will most likely be back. An example of this in our modern world would be with the Opium Wars, when China tried to stop the opium trade with Britain and they sent a naval expedition. Inefficient production management causes poverty and deficit, since they're constantly exporting the Yellow Cake to the cat, and this in turn makes the people unhappy. The cat and the town Mayor however get profits out of it so they ignore it, showing the first signs of corruption. "For the sake of freedom, we must be willing to forsake our liberty.": Corruption eventually escalates to dictatorship in the town. The signs with text such as "OBEY" and "WATCH YOUR NEIGHBOR" represent propaganda. Social unrest escalates to revolution. The town Mayor tries to leave with the profits they got from the trade (Corruption) but people capture him and execute him. New Baker Town: The people develop a hatred towards the cat (In a similar fashion to our modern world where people and countries still hate each other for political reasons), so they send an attack on them. The popularity of the Yellow Cake in the cat's town causes its people to be affected by it, and they start thinking the mice are all evil. An example of this in our modern world would be with current hatred towards arab countries due to events such as 9/11 or attacks on embassies. The cats, unaware of what the cat did to the village at the start and thus thinking the mice are all evil, start commenting on them and the king orders an invasion against the town. War: The mice are happy with the new social government until they get invaded. Being a small town that hasn't developed because of social revolting against the town Mayor, they get annihilated by the cats, who have technology and weaponry against them. One of the scenes is a reference to the Napalm Girl photo, showing that not all the mice were actually involved or related to the attack and social revolt, but the cats killed them anyways. Final scene: The bit where channels are being switched represents how modern social media shows war and conflict constantly happening all around us, but we consider it an everyday occurence and ignore it. Conclusion: The film tries to teach about imperialism and how most of our modern conflicts are caused in our times. Some examples of wars that could be compared with the Yellow Cake would be the Napoleonic Wars, the modern wars of Iraq, Libya, Vietnam and most of the conflicts currently happening in Africa. It's a view into how hatred between nations is formed, and why oftentimes people mention history repeats itself.
@@54032Zepol exactly. He's gotta do SOMETHING with the money if he doesn't want to get destroyed by his own people Also maybe he could reach out to the king, the news, anyone in cat city about their situation and the cruetly they're facing
The cats may not even know how did they got the yellow cake. They probably just saw someone bring some yellow cake in and then they just accepted it. To the cats, the mice may have just randomly decided to bomb them. This whole ending could’ve been prevented if the mice told the cats what happened or decided to not make the bomb
either they have no media at all, or the information is filtered and distorted by the feline authorities. And even if they found out, it's not a fact that they would immediately give up cakes.
It's a reference to history how when oppressed nations retaliate against their oppressors they get labeled as terrorists. Think palestinians or the irish.
You're probably American or western in general. Media monetization and centralization prevented people like the Iranians and the Yemenis and Afghans from being able to communicate what America was doing to them, because fatter cats like Rupert Murdoch got their way. Then when people went ahead and used violence it was easy to slap the label terrorist on them and pretend the religion was at fault to dehumanize rather than reveal the 60 years of exploitation the west was paying for.
I was looking for a yellow cake recipe when I found this, lol. Watched the whole thing, great way to sum up history and how we continue to repeat it….crazy!!!!
...INDEED, HEHE ......BUT....THERE STILL *_WAS_* AN OPTION, ABOUT ONLY *_VERY_* SMART PEOPLE WOULDVE SEE...THO.....ABOUT *_EXPLOITING OF TRUST_* .........WHICH OWNER DOES TOWARDS 100% OBEDIENT SLAVES...... .......SO IT COULDVE BEEN LIKE......IN THESE BAKERY.......A POTENT LETHAL POISON TO BE ADDED.....ALL OF THIS........WHICH KILLS THROUGH 10DAYS..........OR SO.............AND YOU KNOW HOW *_THIS_* COULDVE BEEN ENDED, BECAUSE *_EVERYONE_* WAS EATING AND BY A LOT, EVEN CHILDREN .........BUT......YOUR PSYCHOLOGY ISNT GET USED TO DIGEST SUCH LEVELS OF CRUELTY, ISNT THAT?SO YOU WOULDVE END UP LIKE THESE....I GUESS
For me the most important part is the end. How the tv changed channel and we're just back at being subdued into our daily mediatised antidepressants... Most comments talks with such distance about this animation, but that's still is a reality for many places on earth. People are still suffering from Imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. This is just a reality made understandable for kids... There is modern references, like the naked mouse at the end running on the road which is a reference to a popular picture from the vietnam war. People should rewatch this more often and educated themselves better on how we're all in the position of the cats.
Nick is one of the guys that really made me close in on pursuing animated storytelling without prior exposure to it, so I spent around 90h producing my own first animated story📌. If any one of you is dying to quench their unhinged animation thirst, perhaps you could stop by and share a laugh or two with me! :)
If the one mayor of the little peoples had not been a greedy bastard they would’ve never ended up dyeing at the end situation he had plenty of money so that they could live nicely and have a good life and work conditions.... what was he even gonna spend that money on like it is so annoying how one mans greed can kill an entire community ... like yeah the cat attacking is bad but if they’re just formed the treaty of the trade for the cakes and what not then used the money responsibly [ after all he was clearly being paid plenty for the cakes ....] they could’ve made them with nice work conditions ect. but no no no little mayor had to keep all the money for himself and then when he died he didn’t even have the decency to tell them that he was getting paid enough he just wasn’t sharing it thus dooming his people to seek revenge on the cats who had no idea they were getting abused by there own leader to make the cakes😅
This may have been written as a commentary to the geopolitical situation at the time... But the brilliance of this is that it actually disassociates itself from any one faction. In doing so it becomes a timeless classic that can apply to anyone, anywhere, at any point in time, past, present, and future. Meaning it will always be relevant. The best part? It doesn't tell you what think. It conveys an idea and lets you think for yourself. You and I may have different opinions about this Nick but I can very much appriciate this work of art. THIS is the entertainment I desire and require. The animation style is a welcome throwback to the days of old too!
Exactly like how colonial democracy says the Palestinian attacked them without reason. Ignore how you treat your slaves. And get angry when those slaves revolt.
The problem is it doesn’t matter how justified the attack was because at the end of the day most cats are ignorant of where the yellow cakes come from. To them they were attacked and killed for no reason. Even if they did know that bomb killed bystanders and innocents who had nothing to do with oppressing the bakers. The cats are tossed into a situation where they feel prompted to destroy a hostile power. Because from their perspective they paid for those cakes as seen by the mayors wealth.
@@et5216 it's almost like capitalists rely on the ignorance of consumers to maintain their wealth and status. The mayor certainly wasn't paid the full value of those cakes, he was paid just enough to keep him complicit. Same way the US can prop up warlords for a few million and extract billions in natural resources from poor countries.
3:48 This is sorta bothering me, but i feel like the ending could have been avoided if the mouse mayor/king had just used their new found profits to improve their quality of life, improve their bakery, etc. They could have over time formed a synergistic economic relationship with the cats.
Thats what the various latin american, african, indian and asian colonies tried to do, but the thing is, they couldnt, because the cats would only buy yellow cake and the mice would not be allowed to sell different goods to other nations. The mice nation is whats called an extractive colony.
@@winzyl9546 The problem with your argument is that even if they couldn't sell anything to other nations, the mice were being pumped with wealth from the cats. It's obvious that they weren't restricted from buying anything as the mouse king was living in luxury. This cartoon is probably missing crucial parts, but this shows me that internal greed and corruption are what destroyed them.
France? that sound more like Big PowerFul Nation abusing small weak nation. I was sure the cats are supose to be the US. and the Bakers basically any random small nation
я смотрела этот мультик в далеком 2015 году. не поняла содержания и прочего,но поставила пометку, что это напоминает мне что-то. Сейчас до меня дошло... россия.
People keep saying these were the mice mistakes they should have done it this other way. The cats weren’t expecting that after enforcing a brutal totalitarian puppet government. I’m gonna be real. It’s just messed up to say. There was no right or wrong way. There were no just actions. This is the truth of human history in action. It probably won’t change either just because how life is. It’s depressing in a sense but this is life. And the blurb at the end where the viewer is presumably flipping through tv channels is pretty much what it’s like today. A near inconsequential blip. Blame it on what you want, only hindsight is 20/20. Us people all need to live and breathe. And we need to be able and willing to fight and defend it. We are not slaves. We will live as we please and in order to do that we need to pull together for each other. We must create a sense of real community and comfort.
Finally a realistic approach of how life does work. It is not always the force of good wins or the protagonist with high moral values will be given a lot of plot armour. The real world works when the Mightier and Stronger destroy the weaker.
Yeah because everything in the middle east was idyllic, the west was entirely at fault for terror attacks, and religious fundamentalism played no role in September 11th.
The mice made two critical mistakes:
1) They didn't use more bombs.
2) They didn't plan for or even consider the inevitable retaliation.
Edit: I never expected such a response to this comment. Thanks for the upvotes!
Wait they were mice
it seems they didn't even think that there was a civilization of cats there, seeing one monster that comes and spoils their lives
perhaps this could be compared with some kind of tribe on a hot continent on whose territory the enterprise of an international corporation has settled and pumps water for sale - and their capabilities will figure out how this is due to the fact that somewhere in another country other people are promoting the idea that selling water for money will allow it to be used more wisely, and therefore water resources should be privatized - In the sense that for them this is just one problem, which hardly sets out the nature of the processes behind it, requiring specific information, access to which, depending on, for example, language barriers, may or may not be)
@@impelau Yeah they probably thought it was only ONE monster and the bomb would have killed their only threat.
Wait ! they were mice
@@impelauthis is Africa.
" This film was written in 2003, and was a reaction to the geopolitical situation at the time...sadly, in almost 20 years, not much has changed. "
-This message was probably Relevant 4000 years ago...
Это будет всегда актуально
Not much has changed? my friend it has gotten so much worse
@@Ben-uw8wx ничего не меняется толком. Все, что меняется, так это оружие.
yeah, these people dont know their history very well lol
@@Ben-uw8wx how??
“For the sake of freedom, we must be willing to forsake our liberty”
The moment you forsake anything is the moment you have forgotten what freedom is!
Freedom doesn't come for free kid.
Absolute freedom is known as anarchy
Reminds me of the patriot act and the politicians proud of it.
@@oberonpanopticon Anarchy is a poorly understood ideology, explain where the power vacuum is in a nation of 250 million armed citizens, with shared ethical values.
Power in the hands of the people is NOT a vacuum.
THANK YOU
THE WHOLE POINT is to NOT give up ANYTHING!
>Funny animated short
>Look inside
>Human contemporary history
>Holy moly
MR EYE PLAYS!
The mice got annihilated by a stronger greedy enemy who sought to subjugate then enslave them. Methinks they should have fought back from the onset, not appeased their greedy immoral subjugator and enslaver.
Nonetheless this wasn’t funny at all. It was a tragedy. We witnessed genocide of a peaceful species by another brutal and immoral and entitled species who felt they reserved the right to exterminate the innocent rodents.
This was actually depressing and brought a tear to my eye - because this is an accurate parody of human nature at its very worst 😢
@@datathunderstormthen they would be dead sooner.
It looks like Gene Dietch made it.
bro, I think it's incredible how the mice really thought that ONE cat was consuming all the yellow cakes they were making every day and all in a GIGANTIC tower
I think they're supposed to be rabbits
Well, I mean they slaughtered all the soldiers so probably the guys delivering the cakes were soldiers and died in the rebellion.
So they didn't expect to have a whole city in there
@@FibinianRepublicIn this case, I still find it strange how they didn't look at eh... some record from the king, he probably must have noted down about feline society because of this trade
Those were mice?
What's incredible about it? You got America now trying to pin Ukraine's invasion fully on putin.
Props to the 3 soldiers of the entire mice army fighting back for 3 quarter-seconds 7:43
Actually there were 7 soldiers at 4:03
Actually, it's just the two of them, since there's a hole in the guy laying down
A nice depiction of the Danish Defence in WW2 over before it even started
@@stockimage6174They died in the revolution.
@@3musketerantidbd174 That makes sense
The mistake was complacency, they forgot about the terror of the cat that was eating them when they had money they should have used it to develop weapons against the cats instead of hoarding it and the king became corrupt and oppressive against his people which eventually ended up with them being destroyed.
That falls on the king for being complacent and letting corruption get to him
An intimidating grasshopper once said "first rule of leadership... everything is YOUR fault.
Why do I think I have experienced this story? Because I have really experienced it and not only me but everyone who lives in Iran
@@YT_XTaha just like the royals throwing lavish parties while the country crumbled.
@@Cotillion308and now a days capitalist
With what resources? With what manpower? They're in a coercive "trade" relationship, they either provide for the greater authority or they die. Their first violent interactions were devastating, even if they somehow grew a sufficient military, even if they matched in power, they would still be intrinsically unable to match the production of the greater nation; who would, of course, possess greater industry. It would be, at its very best, a war of attrition.
It is _strictly_ the fault of the greater authority in regards to imperialist, neo-colonialist, and libertarianist implementations and their consequences. Do not blame the oppressed for being oppressed.
I love the clock ticking noise remaining constant until it's set off, a constant reminder that IT _WILL_ HAPPEN. Nice touch.
This is incel trash
This a great use of leitmotif.
Its not really that deep lil bro
@@9KingP Yeah, so? I'm not allowed to enjoy simple details now?
Also what gave you the impression I'm "little bro"?
@@9KingPI can clearly tell who’s the little bro here.
We’re so lucky about those 35 millimeter prints that allow these classics to be appreciated in HD
@@thefarmer6541 bruh
What the f are you talking about
Dude repeat that, but dumb it down for those who don't know what you're talking about about.
Balls
@@rabbitonsteroids95 I think it has something to do with the way the animation strips for this film were preserved, you know those rolling film projectors with reels, same reason IMax theaters exist, same reason if you wanted to watch a Christopher Nolan movie in 8K in the future you'll be able to do so with help of those strips
This movie deserves more recognition, given how it SHOWS that there is more than meets the eye. This movie has so many layers!
Many layers! Like a cake!
this comment has real "I'm 14 and this is deep" energy
@@moneminer1915bro doesn’t think everyone knows
@@praisedaduck7390 I didn't know ten minutes ago. And it *is* worth it, I think. Certainly got my price of admission 8V
For example, in our human societies we can clearly identify that nations have played cats and which mice‼😈
I have been using this in class since 2011 to teach about how imperialism works. As I have learned more about how modern imperialism works, I always notice new analogies and symbolism. I have kids from 8 years ago come up to me and ask me if I still show Yellow Cake. It sticks with them. About to show it today! Thank you.
Wow that's amazing. It feels really good to know my work is having an effect on people. Thanks so much!!
Did you know that the European Nations and Settlements have basically taken over the world, and kept most others from progressing technologically.
Oh my gosh hi Mr gorton, it’s Ava! I randomly remembered this video and spent an unreasonable amount of time searching for it
@@ncross أحسنت لقد شرحت أغلب الثورة السورية
You know there’s some VERY mature parts including 7:54
It has some let’s say uncensored
From our view:
The cat provoked the mice first, and only some of the mice did a terrorist attack as a revenge.
From mice view:
Cats has tried to destroy their town, if they do not eliminate or stop the cats from attacking forever, they might die instead, so some mice attacked the cats with a terrorist attack.
From cats view:
The cats might not know that one cat have attacked the mice, and since they knew the mice attacked them, they instantly think the mice are up to no good, therefore, even the cat king have decided to attack the mice, to stop future attacks from mice. All the cats have the same mindset, and finally, even the soldier of the cats were happy that they eliminated the mice. The cats even killed the mice that were fleeing but since they think all mice are up to no good or as payback, they even killed the fleeing mice.
It doesn't really matter what particular time in history this represents; humanity has operated in this way as long as we've been on this planet.
Not true at all.
@@Skizze37 name one time where it wasn't like this
Humanity isn’t inherently like that. Human behavior is a response to outwards stimuli of the environment, society, or culture.
We made ourselves like this
We could undo it.
@@itsmrbigsmoke862We were hunter-gatherers living in democratic tribes for nearly our whole history. And Imperialism didn’t exist to this extent before Capitalism.
@@Owlbearwolf2 completely wrong! Human tribes were not "democratic" in any way and were not anywhere near peaceful like you make it out to be. Yes we were hunter-gatherers but that's actually what led to imperialism. You had some meat or some berries that I wanted, so I'd get my friends to beat you within an inch of your life so that I could take it. A lot of the time there wouldn't even be a fight, one side would understand that they had to give something up in order to avoid bloodshed. Those stronger tribes are what later became empires and then even later, countries. As for the "democracy", I've got no idea where you heard that. It's not like they would have elections, they would just fight until it was determined who was strongest. And if that person sucked, they'd sometimes team up to overthrow that person. That's as close to democratic as it would get. In fact you should research chimps, they show a lot of behavior that early humans exhibited. Including imperialism! It's quite interesting
To have it be revealed as but one 'news flash' among different to zap in between ( cat's pov) is pure genius.
I just watched this yesterday! It's sadly remarkable how much this holds up in the present day. Thanks for taking the time to make it HD and bring the subject matter some much needed light.
It came out like ten years ago why would it not hold up? lol... You speak like it came out in the early 1900's.
@@teachmg428 there are so many cartoons that don't hold up even 5 years ago. I think it's still an impressive feat
@@totalbadass500it's a very well known general issue. Why tf would it not hold up?
Care to give a few examples on the "so many" cartoons that don't hold up?
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Shows like Big mouth, recent seasons of The Simpsons, Code Lyoko.
Just because it's a well known issue doesn't mean that it automatically gets greenlit as a good video. A lot of time and skill went into this video and that can still be seen today.
@@totalbadass500 Chose the easiest ones to prove but go off.
The image at 7:53 is inspired by a real photograph from the Vietnam war, that shows vietnamese civilians walking away after a napalm bombing
Where do you find that photograph?
@@Luminesfvo If you search Vietnam war photos on the internet surely there's one of a little girl and a boy who are walking away crying on a road with soldiers on the back. If i'm not wrong, the little girl survived and they made an interview with her many years ago.
And there is also a footage!
@@Luminesfvo just typing in Vietnam girl in google is enough to pull it up
And she’s now anti-communist.
Moral of the history:
"Use guns, and if that doesn't work, use bigger guns."
-an Engineer Gaming
engineer gaming
Такую тактику КНДР и использует. Надеюсь понятное, кого кошки пародируют в этом мультике
"The whole world is in dust ... But then (later)." (с)
@@klon_enдавай угадаю... США, Великобритания, Франция? Ан-нет, это же другое. 😂
Капитализм столетиями наживался на экспорте ресурсов и контроле за технологиями и распределением благ. Как думаешь, почему страны Зап.Европы и США живут так хорошо, а их бывшие колонии и "союзники" (читай клиенты) в Африке и в Азии, в массе своей, не очень хорошо?
Во всем виновата КНДР, не иначе...
Слышал о бойне на Чеджу? Когда Южно Корейский диктатор Ли Сын Ман, с помощью американского контингента подавил местных несогласных, отнюдь не демократическим путем... А суть истории в том, что США прибрали к рукам японскую собственность на юге Кореи и не горели желанием возвращать её под контроль единому корейскому правительству, саботируя всех кандидатов, на намечавшихся выборах (под эгидой ООН), кроме своего, а следовательно, нужна была марионетка, на первых ролях в правительстве отдельной Южной Кореи, иллюзия свободы.
A TF2 reference!? huzzah!!
Mistakes the leader made:
1. Not building some damn cannons
2. Not killing the giant dude
Edit: Just saw the ending…. Bigger cannons.
This is human nature showing. The only thing they could do is to bunker down. Spread out, advance themselves, wait for the cats to become complacent and entirely dependent on them as they become more and more lazy due to everything being handed to them without real work. Wait for the cats to fail at developing due to them not having the pain. Of reality and become weak. Wait for the cats to make a massive mistake and then take a massive strike on them to "fix" the arangement... I think this is a metaphor for real life some how... I can't put my finger on it... This ofcorse will repeat again in the future as the new winners will repeat the process as humanity slowly develops more tech but the same nature behind it.
Not just the leader, but the rest of the people. They forgot that the giant dude came from a whole city.
@@thesuperbasearmor812 exactly... China's communist motto was supposedly "Bide Your Time."
And freak Zs now are saying "oh, Iran is scared huh? Lol."
Russia is playing the same game, just doing a worse job than the other two.
As the US is outsourcing everything overseas and creating jobs that ultimately mean nothing, it is weakening itself. If this country invested in itself instead of just funneling capital to elites who produce _zero,_ we wouldn't be in this mess. But hey, America was built on actions like the fat cat... there's just also a whole WORLD out there to deal with.
Even if they had cannons, the cats have air superiority
@@tidepod10yearsago97MF when they have f***in jets
This actually went from classic to horror,r-rated film
2:36 Baker Town
4:19 Liberty Village ( Reference 1984; Literally 1984 )
7:05 New Baker Town
The ending was a really good example of todays media. At one point you can be watching the horrors of war televised from your local news and at the press of a button you can change the channel. I swear it makes people more desensitized.
It's worse, online algorithims silence you if you speak up
Eh, thats kinda the price you pay for free flowing information, its a double edged sword if anything.
@Randomusername56782 yeah, you can chose to educate yourself, or you can 'switch the channel'
@@thatrandomguy8567 It’s not my place to lecture people on what types of information they consume, and neither is it yours. Its nature and apart of human nature as cliche as it sounds to shut off information they dont typically like, from dissenting opinions to pieces of information like the My lai massacre for example, whats your solution anyways? Forcing it in peoples face and causing them to likely disagree with you?
@@Randomusername56782 “bUt HuMaN nAtUrE!!!” That bullshit argument has been long debunked.
To quote a certain show: “What are you, a scorpion in a Navaho fable? Everything can change their nature.”
“When you are faced with the decision of death or slavery, just remember only one of those options will leave your enemy unsatisfied.”
Nah
Doubt it... China doesn't care about theirs as their goal is genocide. Saudi Arabia sterilised their african slaves. The vikings didn't care who lived or died, so their slave trade in Ireland was profiting for them but also not having enemies around to hit them back was also beneficial... both dead or a slave you serve a purpose to you enemies...
That may or may not apply if your enemies are out for blood, not money
Time traveler: *steps on rock*
Attack On Titan timeline:
Imagine how terrifying would it be if titans had modern weaponry☠️
@@Inspector098and you had tiny rifles that couldn’t pierce the nape 💀
@@Bdraws882 armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot: 🗿
@@Bdraws882a grenade launcher, rocket launcher, bombs, etc. AOT in the modern day would last 1 week at max. They struggle to be successful in the WW1 climate of paradis.
@@ancientragerv2561 I meant during season 1 with muskets and all that not modern
the scene of the mice killing the mayor has to be the most hardcore thing ive ever seen in my entire life
1 - peace
2 - terror of cat
3 - hungry
4 - protested
5 - dictator
6 - revolution
7 - terrosrist attack to cats
8 - war
Wow guys... 1.4 k
More accurate than my vision
Something about this sounds familiar. I don’t want to say it because I could be wrong. Can you elaborate on what this story is about specifically, maybe give a hint?
One sided war if you ask me...
9 - Extinction
1 minute 21 seconds moments before disaster
7:52 Man, this reminds me of the photo 'Napalm Girl' 💀
very well could be a reference
You know.. History
It is blatantly clear it is a reference.
Oh, This girl is actually from my country, In fact, during the Vietnam War, America bombed the Truong Son Mountains or Viet Cong facilities in five countries.
I understand the meaning of this movie, the cat represents the western capitalist company or the old bourgeois family The rat is a person at the bottom of society Capitalist companies always take advantage of resources in other countries using tricks that I don't know, such as coups or human rights repression, for example. In fact, there are countries that have always resisted approaching capitalist owners, such as Iraq, which is nationalizing the oil industry to avoid monopolies, for example.
Actually, I only know about that, but I'll give lil sis a phone
Apparently the secret to winning this game is to produce everything, not just the yellow cake, and keep doing it until the cats become complacent. By that time you'll be manufacturing all their weapons too.
You'll notice one industry that never gets offshored is weapons manufacturing.
@@fterimage weapons manufacturing is propped up by the pyramid of the economy, if there isn't a way to support it financially it dies
The cats keep their weapons and keep invading other countries (Irak, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lybia...) edit: sry not Ukraine, I can instead write "A 2016 study by Carnegie Mellon University professor Dov Levin found that the United States intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, with the majority of those being through covert, rather than overt, actions.[95][96] A 2021 review of the existing literature found that foreign interventions since World War II tend overwhelmingly to fail to achieve their purported objectives."
@@samdumaquis2033 And who are these cats?
@@ValorGuard who ever has the power at any given time. the bakers are weak so they get trod under by any who has the power to do so. not the most pleasant characteristic of civilization but a true one none the less
Bro explained politics in 8:21 seconds 🗿
Love how here the mice seemed like terrorists to the cats and the ending , being just news a cat that has nothing to do with it might just say “those pasky mice at it again” without knowing the whole story
don't forget the cats killing each other in mass scratchings
The whole story: The mice leader was a greedy scumbag who, although was paid millions by the cats, didn't actually invest in his country's agricultural or food production industry. And apparently not its military either since all of his army were complete incompetent fools. If he actually gave a damn about his own people, then he could maintain the original food source or seek a new one that's not complete shit. Or he could quietly go on the offensive against his malfactors.
Es muy de la historia de EUA con México, EUA con China, con Cuba, con Rusia, con Colombia y con Oriente medio. EUA son los gatos y todos son ratones, antes de la existencia o llegada de EUA todas las naciones que fueron potencia y prósperos hace 700 o 60 años atrás se encuentran en decadencia por los intereses de EUA; y si se toman sus intereses, EUA los acusa de terroristas.
Israel and palestine
They forgot 1:23
dang bro this new Smurf’s movie is crazy…
Yeah lol💀
heh heh
Tom and Jerry x smurfs
All dead? Ok, at least the suffering came to a stop.
Im surprised the blue guy never got ready for a war. They really thought that all the cats would be dead after that hu.
They were to kind for this world.
Bro what
It's a reference to show the hypocrisy of the US's war in the middle east.
The US starts flexing, the leader of the time makes a deal for "the country's safety" then that leader becomes corrupt, they get overthrown, the people of that country retaliate towards the US in the form of terrorism, then the US comes in with "morals and ethics" to stop the "terrorists" by method of shock and awe.
@@el_blanco_loco
Mmmm. No fragging....I guess the cats never told their people the truth.
Can't fight back against Injustice if you don't know about the injustice.
your missing the point that it was a little isolated village with no outside contact, while there was a whole civilization out there with advanced tech. They never stood a chance
@justadude8716
I didn't say they stood a chance...I said I was surprised they thought they were going to be left alone after making bombs.
they really are isolated if they never thought the cats that were at first eating them mind you weren't about to murder them all.
Bombs and nothing else show their innocence.
Note to self: never fuck with more bigger and powerful opponent until you accumulate enough strength to fight
What the!? I thought you're in the frontlines!
This is why we need our military
Germany learned that, the HARD way
@@Reich_marshall_A6 At the time, in both world wars, Germany was a powerful and insanely considerable force to go to war with. WW2 was minorly lucked,
with appeasement and with no allied offensives in the early war and the Soviet military purges. However, in both world wars without a doubt germany was without a doubt one of or the strongest military power in Europe.
@@veenaraina5922 Powerful till they attacked the Soviet union in world war 2
And only saved itself by surrendering in world war 1. A bit of irony if it surrenders despite being strong
UA-cam never gave me a notification that this was uploaded, share it around, the world needs Nick Cross cartoons ow more than ever
*Absolutely!*
If these politicians did their job well, the cats would get to enjoy cakes and the little guys would live in prosperity. But it was probably the workers who were blamed for not doing their job well and were forced to work even more…
Great work here! Love the animation and the colours, and the plot too! Please make more.
Well the issue here was that the cats seemed to not give a shit after the mouse leader was killed and over thrown. We quite literally see them completely detached from the situation. Not only that but they continue to buy the yellow cakes, even their leader who not only is buying them but is shown to be seemingly bored and disinterested until what appeared to be a group of mouse political extremist used the cakes to launch a terror attack at which point the cats brought the hammer down on the mice.
What do you mean? The politicians did their job perfectly. Have you not been alive for the past 4 US presidential elections? Politicians aren't doing their job apparently unless poor people are working all the time just to struggle to pay rent and feed themselves with cheap unhealthy food. "Oh you weren't born into a family rich enough to give you advantages in our society? Wellp, here's the production line: if you die we'll just pull you off the line and replace you and continue business as usual."
Lesson. Remove government. Allow the profits to flow directly to the small producers. And then they can trade for more than just cake
thats not how economics really work, also government really is just the concentrated expression of the economics of a society@@TheWizardGamez
@@TheWizardGamezanarchcapitalism?
6:17 9/11
6:29 Finding out the perpetrators
6:37 national crisis just like real life 😱😱😱
6:53 oh hey its bush
7:01 US Military sent
7:26 *war on terror incident*
The cat on crown seems like a Jew
8:04 War ends and everyone forgets
“Oh hey it’s bush” killed me man
@@zenderman3495 It's a cat how do you give it a race?
@@pickleism253
Nobody forgot anything
_”There can be no justice without liberty, nor liberty without justice”_
I think a lot of people here push whatever they believe as a lesson. No, doing nothing would have destroyed their village, and compliance without rebelling over their captors would have allowed them to survive.
However the truth is the captors were unreasonably stronger and there was no method to match their strength. The only way this village could have survived is to retreat and hide from the oppressors (the cats).
It's not like they didn't really have a solution. After all, size is a double-edged tool. It's not like cats couldn't find them if they wanted to.
Rather, they went through a series of mistakes: their leader, who sold his people to a foreign force, their people, who decided that it was enough to scare a foreign force.
Could they have better distributed these resources to achieve justice (or more subtle suppression of discontent, which also works)? Apparently, yes.
Could they have studied the society of cats better, taken protective measures, perhaps infiltrated this society by bribing the defenders with pies? Probably.
The problem is that their strong government acted in its own interests, while the other did not act at all.
Is that a lesson itself you believe in and pushing. I agree with your statement, but we are all susceptible to a certain degree of bias
@@GalaxyStudios_YTand how would a neutral observer see it in your mind?
@@impelau honestly I’m not sure. I agree with you but I believe I myself have bias and that there is no perfect answer or interpretation. I believe that’s the beauty behind this. History repeats anyways, just with different people
Or build better weapons and strike first
The channel change at the end was a very sobering conclusion. As someone living in the United States I can just “turn off” the horrors going across the world whenever I want by ignoring it
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. That was the best part in my opinion, all that death and destruction playing out, and the person just changes the channel after everything is done.
Ignorance is bliss...until *ALL* the "bad news" hits home, and by then...well...you can guess the rest...!
There's a kind of modern day condition where folks who watch too much of the news become dangerously depressed and hopeless. I forget the term, but it's a real thing. There's too much tragedy in the world for us all to process it properly, and not a lot the average American citizen can do about every single thing. If one is disabled - physically, mentally, and/or emotionally - there may not be a lot the person can do about even *one* thing.
It's one thing to be empathetic, which needs to happen. But it's definitely overwhelming at times, and we need to sometimes focus on things that *aren't* totally awful.
If you want towards making things a little better, that's great! But one can't do that *and* try focusing on all the bad they *can't* assist with at the same time. We all do what we can.
@@explodingpotatosforeveryonecorrection: not after everything is done; only after they won the war. There is still a need for the mice to rebuild their nation or be annihilated.
But Americans can't turn off the fentanyol crisis or the youth suicide rate.
Perhaps this is too far stretched, but one detail I paid attention to is the military equipment, specifically helmets. The Baker infantry helmet are shaped like Danish WW2 helms with a crown insignia similar to Sweden's, while the Cat infantry helmet are shaped like German stahlhelms. I'd like to interpret it as:
1. The Cats and Bakers have similar ethnic/racial roots, implying that despite rooted similarities, one's greed still dominate
2. It is a visual nod to the German occupation of Denmark
Damn that’s insane tracing, I would say this does accurately display the overall theme of history, just in a more symbolic manner rather than being far stretched
I thought they were brodie helmets
its actually from the war in middle east, or any colonial trouble, rabbits are colonies, and cats are colonists
This is historical accurate. Whose history you ask ? Human history. Always were, always will be. Cheer to you creator(s), you summarize all human history in few minutes.
Yep, this cycle constantly repeats...
The bakers had guns and weapons, which makes you think, if they fought back when the first cat arrived to eat them, none of that would have necessarily happened.
I guess the mice did not think of that.
Probably took it from the soldiers in the rebellion
They were funked from the start. Kill one cat, and another will come with less motivation to bargain.
They were overpowered from the beginning and had no chance.
Given the size difference, those guns would have been like mosquito stings to the cat... If they could get through fur first.
Nah, the cat king would consider this as a terrorism anyway
Now no one gets yellow cake.
Your right, I don’t. Far too political to be enjoyed to be honest. And yeah, I know that’s half the point of these political cartoons.
@@massivetictac973 i think you misunderstood the comment
@@doctorplagus6477 yes
@@massivetictac973 and then theres disney and most us animation studio in 1940+:
Коты найдут себе что-то взамен, в другой -стране- деревне. Вместо жёлтого кекса, будет синий компот. красные леденцы и чёрный сироп уже был..
This was so good. Kinda remind me of Ren and Stimpy
It feels like John K.’s style both artistically and musically but without the derangement.
@@AndrewColomy for you it felt like John K.’s style, for me it felt like John F.'s style if you understand me
Don’t forget The Mighty B and The Loud House, Dexter’s Laboratory.
@@mestredosmagos10 who is John F.?
@@curtoonstudios3809 it's a joke, when when i said John F. i mean John F. Kennedy
This Movie Explains Terrorism and war, great peice of art the creator has made.
And so corruption leaves us all starved and dead.
@spiritsafe-ko4ee its corrupted capitalism
@spiritsafe-ko4eeThe difference being...?
@spiritsafe-ko4ee so what’s the alternative
@@BonnieBunny118 you know the alternative, even the mices saw the alternative, the problem is that they didn't plan for or even consider the inevitable retaliatiation of an external threat
@@mestredosmagos10 communism?
7:26 Germans invading the smurf village in Belgium 1914 colorized
The cats seem to have German helmets and Russian Federov Avtomats (?)
The have Stahlhelms and Flametrooper
But they don't have that in early war
@@Account_abandoned-q7mNah, these look more like m14
@@Account_abandoned-q7mAnd lmg looks like stoner 63
It's baffling how everyone seems to slightly miss the point : some people are arguing the mice should have done this or that but the truth is there is nothing they could have done. The cats are to blame.
This is a simple metaphor for imperialism, you could apply it to Iraq for example : the british installed the Hashemite king in 1921 so they could exploit the country's oil at an unfair price. The population remained poor and the political climate very instable but the power was kept aligned with the west through American intervention. All those years of oppression nurtured a profound hate of the west, eventually leading to 9/11 and the following Iraq invasion, with the complete destruction of the country and 600,000 dying. Just so a few could profit.
9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. 9/11 was the justification for Afghanistan. The official justification for Iraq, 2 years after Afghanistan, was that Iraq was hiding WMDs and wouldn’t let UN inspectors.
It was written in 2003 and "based on geopolitical events", per description. If the author DIDN'T have 9/11 on the brain, it would be surprising. Who didn't?
And yet, who can blame the cats? Most of them had no idea what was going on, only realizing anything was happening at all once a tower blew up. There's very few responses that can be taken in the face of such an atrocity, and violence is the most obvious response to violence.
The west was not the only entities operating in or oppressing the middle east, and their attack on the US was based in religious fundamentalism. Was it more acceptable oppression when it was the Ottomans? If they truly wanted to strike back at their oppressors they should have looked internally.
@@mariofan1ishgood points
this is an exquisite essay. timeless, because not much has changed. This film for me is a summary of America and big corp, how they have strip-mined any nation they see fit for their own advancement. The last 3 scenes of fun tv being replaced by hard music and smoking gun-toting cat and the comedian cat - that is like the media arm of the beast that keeps its subjects entranced
“…it was the apathy of the masses that gave rise to the current regime” -Ray Bradbury
I like how in the end, there is only channels of cats, no mice, just cats.
Because the mice all extinct?
@@dyazsgameplayandrandomvide3259 ya
@@dyazsgameplayandrandomvide3259 All BUT extinct. there just MIGHT... *MIGHT* be at least one or two survivors that escaped the "genocidal" massacre...
becsuse it represents the occidental view, the war only apears a few times in some channels, but even so you can change channels and ignore the situation completely, even if your country committed a genocide the mice are seem as the terroorists and that they deserved their destruction due to lack of consciousness among the cats
@@WarringPacifist everyone leaved in peace, but that all changed when the cat nation attacked
I see ordinary people striking for reasonable pay.
The hardest jobs are the lowest paid jobs & it breaks my heart that most of these people struggle to make ends meet …
Violence, greed & propaganda are used to oppress. The civil wars are inevitable.
This cartoon articulates how many feel without much dialogue &, in my opinion, that is morbidly beautiful.
I discovered your channel through your mind-blowing cartoon, *The Clockwork Elves.* I don’t need to explain why I like that cartoon …
😂
This really is beautiful, bro. My only selfish criticism is that you don’t upload often enough. With that being said, I also understand why. Quality over quantity &, oh my word, this is quality.
You have a subscriber for life in me.
❤
quit yapping in the comment section
@@gavinnewton7221 a positive comment triggered you. You have a lot of work to do on yourself. I thank the heavens that I am not you.
bro... lower paying jobs aren't the hardest... if you understood anything about the world you would know this.
@@unbearablysmug2437 Hmmmmmmm, nah, bro, it depends what job & what you define as poorly paid / underpaid. Firefighters, police officers, paramedics, surgeons, military staff, nurses & teachers can be underpaid, depending on where you’re from. If you were from the real world, YOU would know this.
@@xbulelo wow you somehow managed to not address anything I said, you are either retrded or pretending to be retrded. If you're trolling then respect, I guess you got me.
was expecting a film about enriching uranium. Pleasantly surprised.
Yeah, common name for it is yellow cake...
The cut from the major protecting his village to a corrupt dictator was sudden.
Absolute power corrupts anyone
The mayor was in on it from the beginning judging by how he winked at the cat and he got a cut of the money from the cakes.
He hoarded the cakes initially
“This is clearly a critique on [specific ideology or government doctrine I don’t like]”
- Comment Section.
It’s not one thing or the other. Rather it’s human nature as a whole, this scenario plays out regardless of the parties involved.
And worse? Neither side is completely wrong. Yet the movie is relatable on so many levels.
Capitalist realism, look it up
"b-but what about human nature??"
pretty much
Not really, it very much is about Western Capitalism specially since it was written in 2003 when the US was hard at work to kill 1 million human beings in Iraq
Ive been looking for this for years.
Thanks for reuploading it.
First scene: The life of small nations living by their normal culture. The cat arriving and attacking represents foreign nations colonizing and seeking to expand their influence. The town Mayor offers a resource the cat doesn't have in their original land so they accept, representing the start of trade and commerce.
"To protect the village, sacrifices must be made.": The town Mayor is aware that if they stop the resource trade, the cat will most likely be back. An example of this in our modern world would be with the Opium Wars, when China tried to stop the opium trade with Britain and they sent a naval expedition. Inefficient production management causes poverty and deficit, since they're constantly exporting the Yellow Cake to the cat, and this in turn makes the people unhappy. The cat and the town Mayor however get profits out of it so they ignore it, showing the first signs of corruption.
"For the sake of freedom, we must be willing to forsake our liberty.": Corruption eventually escalates to dictatorship in the town. The signs with text such as "OBEY" and "WATCH YOUR NEIGHBOR" represent propaganda. Social unrest escalates to revolution. The town Mayor tries to leave with the profits they got from the trade (Corruption) but people capture him and execute him.
New Baker Town: The people develop a hatred towards the cat (In a similar fashion to our modern world where people and countries still hate each other for political reasons), so they send an attack on them. The popularity of the Yellow Cake in the cat's town causes its people to be affected by it, and they start thinking the mice are all evil. An example of this in our modern world would be with current hatred towards arab countries due to events such as 9/11 or attacks on embassies. The cats, unaware of what the cat did to the village at the start and thus thinking the mice are all evil, start commenting on them and the king orders an invasion against the town.
War: The mice are happy with the new social government until they get invaded. Being a small town that hasn't developed because of social revolting against the town Mayor, they get annihilated by the cats, who have technology and weaponry against them. One of the scenes is a reference to the Napalm Girl photo, showing that not all the mice were actually involved or related to the attack and social revolt, but the cats killed them anyways.
Final scene: The bit where channels are being switched represents how modern social media shows war and conflict constantly happening all around us, but we consider it an everyday occurence and ignore it.
Conclusion: The film tries to teach about imperialism and how most of our modern conflicts are caused in our times. Some examples of wars that could be compared with the Yellow Cake would be the Napoleonic Wars, the modern wars of Iraq, Libya, Vietnam and most of the conflicts currently happening in Africa. It's a view into how hatred between nations is formed, and why oftentimes people mention history repeats itself.
I sometimes like to review your work again and now it's just a gift. Thank you!
AH.....The cats are America. I get it.
What if the mayor used the money he got from the cats to make better bakeries to produce more food?
Provide social services to provide for more families, free education in order to invent better machinery, technology to handle more demand, etc etc
@@54032Zepol exactly. He's gotta do SOMETHING with the money if he doesn't want to get destroyed by his own people
Also maybe he could reach out to the king, the news, anyone in cat city about their situation and the cruetly they're facing
Mice aren't very smart.
They choose violence and paid for it in blood.
Why was the mayor getting all the money in the first place or getting any money at all for that matter if the cats could just come and take it?
The cats needed the mice to produce the cake Constantly.@@Jimraynor45
The cats may not even know how did they got the yellow cake. They probably just saw someone bring some yellow cake in and then they just accepted it. To the cats, the mice may have just randomly decided to bomb them.
This whole ending could’ve been prevented if the mice told the cats what happened or decided to not make the bomb
either they have no media at all, or the information is filtered and distorted by the feline authorities. And even if they found out, it's not a fact that they would immediately give up cakes.
@@margarine3844 well not saying they should give up, but they could definitely bargain and end up with a deal that benefits both sides
@@labbit35 so that the mice don't starve? No, then they won't cook enough for the cats, and it's not profitable. On the plantation!
It's a reference to history how when oppressed nations retaliate against their oppressors they get labeled as terrorists. Think palestinians or the irish.
You're probably American or western in general. Media monetization and centralization prevented people like the Iranians and the Yemenis and Afghans from being able to communicate what America was doing to them, because fatter cats like Rupert Murdoch got their way.
Then when people went ahead and used violence it was easy to slap the label terrorist on them and pretend the religion was at fault to dehumanize rather than reveal the 60 years of exploitation the west was paying for.
このアニメーションは大学生の頃から見ている好きな作品ですが，今の日本がこうなりそうだと感じてしまう今日この頃です。
Bro! Unfortunately, Historically said, Japan don't deserve to mention about this video.
何。?！ああ、いい加減にしろ!!何のことをいっているのですか。?！
Try to click Translated to English
NO
@@scholartheterminator94 no to what?
This was great but i feel like we're missing a little bit of the cat's side of profiting off the villages suffering and I love the message.
I was looking for a yellow cake recipe when I found this, lol. Watched the whole thing, great way to sum up history and how we continue to repeat it….crazy!!!!
Shame geopolitics haven't changed since but expected cause we're trapped in a never ending loop of history
War... War never change
Zero sum game unfortunately.
WILL learn because the specie is NEVER the problem
The society is which are THE PEOPLE the CORE part
@@cosmicreef5858 Are you high? Wtf are you saying?
@@ValorGuard War changes quite a bit actually.
1:22 caseoh he's pet cat:
Caseoh: yup, you're banned.
Well. It was actually an incredibly logical ending that I wasn't expecting, but somehow wanted to see.
...INDEED, HEHE
......BUT....THERE STILL *_WAS_* AN OPTION, ABOUT ONLY *_VERY_* SMART PEOPLE WOULDVE SEE...THO.....ABOUT *_EXPLOITING OF TRUST_* .........WHICH OWNER DOES TOWARDS 100% OBEDIENT SLAVES......
.......SO IT COULDVE BEEN LIKE......IN THESE BAKERY.......A POTENT LETHAL POISON TO BE ADDED.....ALL OF THIS........WHICH KILLS THROUGH 10DAYS..........OR SO.............AND YOU KNOW HOW *_THIS_* COULDVE BEEN ENDED, BECAUSE *_EVERYONE_* WAS EATING AND BY A LOT, EVEN CHILDREN
.........BUT......YOUR PSYCHOLOGY ISNT GET USED TO DIGEST SUCH LEVELS OF CRUELTY, ISNT THAT?SO YOU WOULDVE END UP LIKE THESE....I GUESS
Someone: France is Beautiful
France when the anything is moved by one year: 4:50
Tasty to look at and engaging narrative, thank you for the HD Nick
For me the most important part is the end. How the tv changed channel and we're just back at being subdued into our daily mediatised antidepressants... Most comments talks with such distance about this animation, but that's still is a reality for many places on earth. People are still suffering from Imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. This is just a reality made understandable for kids... There is modern references, like the naked mouse at the end running on the road which is a reference to a popular picture from the vietnam war. People should rewatch this more often and educated themselves better on how we're all in the position of the cats.
Interesting, that you left Communism out of there.
Nick is one of the guys that really made me close in on pursuing animated storytelling without prior exposure to it, so I spent around 90h producing my own first animated story📌. If any one of you is dying to quench their unhinged animation thirst, perhaps you could stop by and share a laugh or two with me! :)
bro shouldve used that money to build factories to make even more yellow cakes and make more mice work in the factory for labor exhaustion
7:35 the balkans every 2 months for no reason
This is a good short film with some important messages but maybe a little change in the thumbnail might help it get more views.
This has always been one of my favorite of yours.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
.... Benjamin Franklin.
А ещё надо было использовать яд в каждом из печений,а не бомбу только в одном (:
@@СмеющийсяЧеловек-я3ш I'm sorry, I don't speak gobbledegook.
It's not offering a translation 😞
what i like about this is the heavy handedness
8:00 pov: Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen
Also Ukraine, Somalia, South Sudan, Lybia
@@carlosferreira6420
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
China
Russia
Japan
Korea
So much more I can name off the list.
@@MUZUKUN-YT yeah, cuz war never changed
If the one mayor of the little peoples had not been a greedy bastard they would’ve never ended up dyeing at the end situation he had plenty of money so that they could live nicely and have a good life and work conditions.... what was he even gonna spend that money on like it is so annoying how one mans greed can kill an entire community ... like yeah the cat attacking is bad but if they’re just formed the treaty of the trade for the cakes and what not then used the money responsibly [ after all he was clearly being paid plenty for the cakes ....] they could’ve made them with nice work conditions ect. but no no no little mayor had to keep all the money for himself and then when he died he didn’t even have the decency to tell them that he was getting paid enough he just wasn’t sharing it thus dooming his people to seek revenge on the cats who had no idea they were getting abused by there own leader to make the cakes😅
Same thoughts exactly
The same happened in Brazil, 1897. Called “Guerra dos Canudos”. Exactly this way
Sim.
This may have been written as a commentary to the geopolitical situation at the time...
But the brilliance of this is that it actually disassociates itself from any one faction.
In doing so it becomes a timeless classic that can apply to anyone, anywhere, at any point in time, past, present, and future.
Meaning it will always be relevant.
The best part? It doesn't tell you what think. It conveys an idea and lets you think for yourself.
You and I may have different opinions about this Nick but I can very much appriciate this work of art. THIS is the entertainment I desire and require. The animation style is a welcome throwback to the days of old too!
Did youtube suddenly start recommending everyone this video
Yes. Sadly some of the old animation channels like Aniboom are gone. I miss seeing the various works that got uploaded to it.
Definitely.
I really love this animation and thank you so much for uploading it in HD.
your channel is one of the best discoveries i’ve made online!
Cats will really say that the bakers attacked them without reason
Exactly like how colonial democracy says the Palestinian attacked them without reason.
Ignore how you treat your slaves. And get angry when those slaves revolt.
@@danbeaulieu2130brother be justifying Islamic terrorism 😂
The problem is it doesn’t matter how justified the attack was because at the end of the day most cats are ignorant of where the yellow cakes come from. To them they were attacked and killed for no reason.
Even if they did know that bomb killed bystanders and innocents who had nothing to do with oppressing the bakers.
The cats are tossed into a situation where they feel prompted to destroy a hostile power. Because from their perspective they paid for those cakes as seen by the mayors wealth.
@@territorial.io_player bro be justifying Israeli terrorism
@@et5216 it's almost like capitalists rely on the ignorance of consumers to maintain their wealth and status. The mayor certainly wasn't paid the full value of those cakes, he was paid just enough to keep him complicit. Same way the US can prop up warlords for a few million and extract billions in natural resources from poor countries.
This art style seems familiar...like Ren and Stimpy creator style.
3:48 This is sorta bothering me, but i feel like the ending could have been avoided if the mouse mayor/king had just used their new found profits to improve their quality of life, improve their bakery, etc. They could have over time formed a synergistic economic relationship with the cats.
Exactly
its a metaphor from the politicians in colonies/ ex colonies
they are greedy and sometimes in favour of the enemy just because it benefits them
Thats what the various latin american, african, indian and asian colonies tried to do, but the thing is, they couldnt, because the cats would only buy yellow cake and the mice would not be allowed to sell different goods to other nations.
The mice nation is whats called an extractive colony.
Wouldn't work, the cats would keep taking more and leave scraps
@@winzyl9546 The problem with your argument is that even if they couldn't sell anything to other nations, the mice were being pumped with wealth from the cats. It's obvious that they weren't restricted from buying anything as the mouse king was living in luxury. This cartoon is probably missing crucial parts, but this shows me that internal greed and corruption are what destroyed them.
the ACIDIC lesson: sacrificing food will be predicting for the town's DEATH, but other town will be left skyrocket
The invasion of France explained in 8 mins and 26 seconds.
How is it the french invasion
You are onto nothing.
Closer to the invasion of Grenada, the Banana Wars, or the history of labor in general.
@@AmauriJean-w5o bro who has no brains
France? that sound more like Big PowerFul Nation abusing small weak nation. I was sure the cats are supose to be the US. and the Bakers basically any random small nation
it has strong Macskafogó/Cat city vibes
the animation and the music is A+
Wow I can't possibly think of what any of this could be an allegory for.
я смотрела этот мультик в далеком 2015 году. не поняла содержания и прочего,но поставила пометку, что это напоминает мне что-то. Сейчас до меня дошло... россия.
The remaster so nice I watched it twice ✨
People keep saying these were the mice mistakes they should have done it this other way. The cats weren’t expecting that after enforcing a brutal totalitarian puppet government.
I’m gonna be real. It’s just messed up to say. There was no right or wrong way. There were no just actions. This is the truth of human history in action. It probably won’t change either just because how life is. It’s depressing in a sense but this is life. And the blurb at the end where the viewer is presumably flipping through tv channels is pretty much what it’s like today. A near inconsequential blip. Blame it on what you want, only hindsight is 20/20.
Us people all need to live and breathe. And we need to be able and willing to fight and defend it. We are not slaves. We will live as we please and in order to do that we need to pull together for each other. We must create a sense of real community and comfort.
This was a 9/11 animation
For sure that cats look like americans
Finally a realistic approach of how life does work. It is not always the force of good wins or the protagonist with high moral values will be given a lot of plot armour. The real world works when the Mightier and Stronger destroy the weaker.
The fact that they just want to eat in peace😞
Honestly the cats and the mice both are horrible people in this film
@@DreamGoatWannabe The Cats are worse
@@mrnobody9611 Not really. The mice were laughing maniatically while burning the other mouse alive. Both are horrible.
@@DreamGoatWannabe Yeah cause that mouse installed a dictatorship that had horrible living conditions and tried to escape with the money
@@DreamGoatWannabe good point...
Am I the only one that gets reminded of the animation style from the cartoon "Wayside"?
Also goddamn this was good. Amazing work!
6:54 "A plane has hit the second tower."
hell naw
Of course the tf2 player is the edgy one
Weirdly, that’s exactly the type of thing this video is about.
Yeah because everything in the middle east was idyllic, the west was entirely at fault for terror attacks, and religious fundamentalism played no role in September 11th.
@@matthewwyman1581buddy you're just a chicken
6:19 and the cats become terrxrists.
War, War Never Changes.