Quaint as this animation is, I'd like to see it on a big screen. It has a kind of pastoral quality to it despite its depressing premise. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A couple of plot points require some suspension of disbelief, but otherwise, this holds a scarring, bleak reality within its fantasy-folk style. It's a little dry and long at points; it could probably have been a short film. For a naturalist animal fable about human progress and human evils, it's dour in the right ways.