{"id":68820,"date":"2014-03-27T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=68820"},"modified":"2014-03-27T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:57:14","slug":"fisheye-riblje-oko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/fisheye-riblje-oko\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Fisheye (Riblje Oko)<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nEMwnBGrRrA?rel=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Jo\u0161ko Maru\u0161i\u0107, a Croatian animator whose fantastic 1980 short, <em>Fisheye<\/em>, often swims into my mind when I order seafood. I once came across the film on YouTube, very late at night\u2014which is, as connoisseurs know, the best time to fall down the YouTube mineshaft.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fisheye<\/em> is an inspired blend of the macabre and the mundane. Its premise is simple: instead of people going fishing, fish go peopling. At night, these jowly blue creatures of the deep take to the land, a murderous glint in their eyes\u2014they feast on the residents of a sleepy coastal hamlet. While they\u2019re well-bred enough to use forks, they seem to have forgotten that forks are intended for use with food that has already been killed. And they spareth not the rod: children are maimed, old ladies clubbed. If this doesn\u2019t sound like your cuppa, give it sixty seconds; you may find yourself, as I did, transfixed. Is the film best paired with a psychotropic substance? That\u2019s not my place to say. (Yes.)<\/p>\n<p>Maru\u0161i\u0107 belongs to what\u2019s known as the Zagreb School of Animation. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinokultura.com\/specials\/11\/int-marusic.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">a 2011 interview<\/a>\u2014informative despite its clunky translation\u2014he says,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Zagreb School of Animation had its specific technological and \u201cworldview\u201d coordinates. The technological characteristic of the School was the so-called \u201climited animation,\u201d which, in digest, means a complete commitment to stylization. It is customarily contrasted with the Disney-style \u201cfull animation\u201d, where all characters are animated according to the strictly delineated canons of [\u201crealistic\u201d] animation. The School introduced the genre of animated films for adults, films pregnant with cynicism, auto-irony, and the relativization of divisions between people. In all great conflicts, our sympathy is with the \u201csmall man\u201d who is most frequently subject to manipulation. This \u201csmall person\u201d exists in all classes and all societies, and verily constitutes the most numerous sector of society, but remains powerless because he or she is not \u201cnetworked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to Jo\u0161ko Maru\u0161i\u0107, a Croatian animator whose fantastic 1980 short, Fisheye, often swims into my mind when I order seafood. I once came across the film on YouTube, very late at night\u2014which is, as connoisseurs know, the best time to fall down the YouTube mineshaft. 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