FEATURE FILM

Balablok

6.4/10
TMDB10 votes
Original: 7 min

Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.

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About Balablok

Balablok (1973) is a film in the animation genres. Directed by .

Released
Original language
Runtime
7 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
Canada
Production companies
ONF | NFB

Audience reviews

6.4/10 from 10 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

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TMDB member review

The square people all get along nicely and politely with each other until one day they discover a round person. "It's ball-shaped" think they, and so they rather rudely use it as one. Then more round folk turn up and turn the tables. Next thing it's escalated to an army of squares forming the animated equivalent of a Roman turtle against a load of cannonball shaped round ones. Around and round it goes until there is…

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The square people all get along nicely and politely with each other until one day they discover a round person. "It's ball-shaped" think they, and so they rather rudely use it as one. Then more round folk turn up and turn the tables. Next thing it's escalated to an army of squares forming the animated equivalent of a Roman turtle against a load of cannonball shaped round ones. Around and round it goes until there is nothing left but splinters and a rather satisfactory sort of hybrid shape that soon adopts exactly the same attitude to different as we've seen all along. This is clearly a metaphor for how human beings tend to treat those whose appearance is different and in many ways it reminded my of a more aggressive "Mr. Men" cartoon. If you're triangle shaped, then you'd best watch out.

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Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.

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