Animal Farm

This is certainly one interpretation.
It absolutely is not the best interpretation of this work. While it captures the corruption of the pigs, it does nothing to further the actual ideas presented in the original work. And I don't think that was accidental. It's a shame that a story which is so important gets mismanaged in its popular representation, so that a new generation that watches it does not understand why it is so important....

Now I'm not sure we really needed another adaptation of Orwell's timeless critique on the pig-eat-pig world of animal hierarchies, but Andy Serkis clearly thought we did. The farmer has been forced into bankruptcy by the avaricious "Miss Pilkington" who wants his land, but luckily "Snowball" notices that the lorry purportedly taking them on a vacation isn't actually heading to the laughterhouse - but there is an extra "s" which they hadn't quite clocked. Alarmed, the horses, cows, sheep, chicks and aforementioned porcines leap back to safety and now without their human master conclude that the...