The Lorax

There aren't very many motion pictures made in America which seriously question the status quo. Any that do deserve serious attention, even if they are cartoons.

"The Lorax" was written in 1971, in an era of social protest and questioning. It was not a particularly successful book for Dr. Seuss, but of course it had a lot of competition from other Suess books from the 1950s and 1960s.

Animation techniques in the computer age have become incredibly impressive visually; good artwork goes well with high technology.

We are a civilization which has decided that material prosperity  for the many and great wealth for the few is more important that preserving nature, and this is the point of the film.

Unless we change that priority, we are doomed. The change will have to start small, and grow. So far there have been innumerable false starts; what we need now is a genuine one.

The Lorax is a story about greed, environmental devastation because of greed, and the emergence of a widespread determination to reverse it, which begins as a tiny seed, and grows.

This is a movie worth seeing.

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