AniWorthThe Spider and the Tulip
Introduction
A spider attempts to lure a ladybug into his web. When she manages to escape and hide in a tulip, a storm comes that batters the spider, while the ladybug remains safe.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.64/10 · 1481
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Audience reviews
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delta5
Well, unlike other reviewers, I have some actual respect for the intelligence of those watching this short film. Are racist stereotypes involved? Yes. Does this mean you're doing literal violence and harm to actual human beings by watching this film? No.
Anyone with half a brain can distinguish between different aspects of any creative work. This is an important historical artifact and can be evaluated on a variety of metrics. One can still appreciate certain features of the film without condemning the whole. And a thorough analysis involves such holistic consideration. Otherwise, how does anyone even read anything from the entirety of civilization's beginnings to, say, five years ago? If you can only condemn works that don't fit your exact current worldview then you are mentally a child.…
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I see a lot of comments of the spider being blatant black face. But given the pre-occupation timing of the art piece, I'm hesitant to label the tag onto this short. Is there any evidence that it indeed was an attempt at racial fear mongering? The parallels are certainly there to see, but I am reluctant to ascribe intent to a work of a time period I am not familiar with intimately.
However the racist stereotypical parallels are just too blatant to ignore. The spider is the literal definition of the "coon caricature" at work. The awkward contrast of the anthropomorphized ladybug having a typical Japanese lady appearance and the Spider having a coon face and smoking a cigar reeks of war propaganda of the worst kind - an employment of racist and xenophobic fear mongering to rile up the masses…
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