Viral Video Du Jour: “Monsieur COK” Is Not What You Think (Well, Not Quite…)
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A nightmarish little bit of steampunk animation with hints of Metropolis and Micmacs, “Monsieur COK” may be a bit obvious in its politics (the rebellious worker crushed by the machines literally uses a hammer and sickle as weapons), but the visual style is striking and horribly beautiful.
And the moral of the story, I think, is never work for the Kinder Surprise company. Their CEO is a little off.
Monsieur COK from Franck Dion on Vimeo.
via Cartoon Brew
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist