I was so impressed by Varmints.
Firstly, I like its background music.
Ambient has been one of my most favorite kinds of music, and most of the BGMs
for Varmints are exactly the ambient tracks.
Anyway, watching Varmints, I guessed that
the director wanted to satirize the present society. Humankind has been
constructing many buildings, and at the same time, we have destroyed nature,
and polluted the air. In the movie, the rich nature appeared in the
introductory part was cleared away, and there appeared an urban city where
many buildings stood close together. There was a rubbish heap on each building,
and the smoke discharged from factories seriously polluted the environment so
that many inhabitants (each one seems to be a worker) walked streets coughing
badly as if they’d been black sick zombies. In such a terrible situation, the
hero seemed to struggle to protect what were familiar and precious for him: small
living things. And I felt the story was telling that nature can come to life
again extricating itself from polluted world if there is a single person who
fights to protect it. He tried to protect the small nursery-tree until the end.
Varmints made me feel like even such small effort can save the world. It’s
beautiful, I think.
Lastly, I wanna tell you that Varmints
reminded me of one song, Chiisana ikimono by Spitz. You can watch the official
video clip on YouTube, so I wish you will watch it when you’re at leisure. This
song matches the movie very much!
