When life gives you ice-skates, blow up some heads.

Watched it again because the others hadn’t seen it whilst it was over a week since I last saw Eiza Gonzales and I was getting withdrawal symptoms.

The elite (judges, politicians, high priests, etc) are pigs devouring and depleting resources, chained to their power chair, leaving leftovers to the ones below until there is nothing left. But when everything is expended, the ones below rebel and take over Until they become pigs and the cycle starts all over.
But all this on shaky ground and there is a finite number of cycles left...
A brilliant animated allegory of a society designed to serve the greedy few.

Beautifully and skilfully shot and stitched together to feel as a one continued/unbroken take, giving a more personal feeling to this story. The score added significantly to the dramatic feel as did the amazing cinematography with special mention to the spectacular visual play of shadows and light in the heavily bombed out village of Écoust-Saint-Mein.
It does feel like the film was made with awards in mind and this is clear in the extent of the set, the extras, the costumes and the impressive choreography which must have taken forever to get spot on with the result being hauntingly spectacular.