This short animation is about a little wolf who has been sent away by his parents to the big bad wolfs castle to learn how to be bad.
Although the animation is aimed at children, the underlying messages tackle more prominent and darker questions and themes which run through culture and society. The child is not accepted, even by the people who are supposed to love him most (intimate family) and is sent away on his own to learn how to fit into their culture. This runs a parallel with our everyday lives, when someone does not display the correct attributes or appropriate behavior then our society tends to shun them, or send them to a place to learn how to behave like the "normal" (boarding school, mental asylum, prison,church).
Ultimately in the animation the wolf stumbles across some cub scouts who show him kindness, finally being accepted he chooses not to return home to his family, and to instead live with this group of people who share his morals. This animation tackles the subject of being an outsider in a lighthearted way, but the darker messages and hints about culture are clearly there.
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