As of today, my favorite movie. It is perfect, and pure. Uplifting. Set in a pastoral land where all animals (and humans?) fully understand and accept their per-determined lot in life, a runt pig captures the imagination and heart of a solitary sheep farmer. The farmer has probably not tried anything new in the last half century, to be sure, by the look of his equipment and techniques. From the very first contact the pig and farmer experience a fleeting connection; and a silly little wisp of an idea flutters by. Slowly, little quirky things begin to show up, and the little ideas begin to flurry.
These thoughts eventually bubble to the surface and exhibit themselves in odd little comments and actions of the farmer’s. After a while the farmer’s wife grows concerned for her husband’s uncharacteristic behavior. But, neither the wife, nor the farmer who is beginning to swim in these thoughts, can quite put their finger on the source. At a pivotal point in the film, the farmer let’s go to his ideas and begins training the pig as a sheep dog.
“It was then that Mrs. Hogget began to worry. But, Farmer Hogget knew that ideas which tickled
And nagged,
and refused to go away – should never be ignored…
…for within them lie the seeds of destiny.”
Brings a whole new perspective to the old addage "tickled pink!"
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