The animated short Chain is about the ferocity of nature and the clever adaptations of predators and prey in the natural world. A cute cicada chomps down on a tiny worm until he's confronted by a praying mantis, obviously an orchid mantis in this case. But then comes a peacock spider who would love to eat them both. This simple scenario even has a sexy dream sequence. The viewer doesn't know who to root for in this standoff because they're all emotionally expressive, but then again they are all bugs. That's when it gets a little Looney Tunes.
In nature, it's either eat or be eaten, and you can't feel safe no matter how high you are on the food chain. Chain is based on the Chinese proverb “The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.” It's won an awful lot of film festival awards. -via Nag on the Lake
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The peacock spider is tiny. The orchid mantis is gigantic next to it. sheesh
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