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''Fantastic Planet'' is a film about... [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|various things]], and it's far too trippy and eccentric to do justice here. Basically, set on the homeworld of the Traags (or Draags), where humans -- knownhumans—known as Oms -- existOms—exist on their planet both as a troublesome vermin population but also as domesticated pets. The film follows one of those pets from his captivity to later living among the humans, and then later still things get [[Trippy Finale Syndrome|even stranger]], if that's even possible. Let's just say that it involves a ritualised engagement in intergalactic out-of-body experiences which is symbolically and probably literally both drugs and sex is threatened by an act of terrorism and that still doesn't make it sound half as surreal as it really is.
 
Along the way, other stuff happens that you never really understand. It's almost indescribable, but just think ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|on mescaline]], and you pretty much have it.
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* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]: Although strangely. The Om have a lit-up orgy (tastefully obscured), and the less said about the Draag sex, the better.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: When the Oms eat the fruit in the desert and start to glow, and also the Draag 'meditation'. Or that thing they do where their bodies transform while sitting around. Some have suggested the name 'Draag' itself may come from drugs. Look, half the movie, okay?
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: Played with. Humans are responsible for the destruction of their own planet and how the Draags treat the humans is in itself a rather ironic comment on how we treat other animals.
* [[Humans Are Interesting]]: As pets.
* [[Humanoid Aliens]]: They're much bigger than humans, and blue skinned, but they still fit.
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