![]() ![]() It’s a nice mish-mash of familiar tropes.Ī central theme of In the Lives of Puppets is freewill, the essence of humanity. ![]() There are elements of Swiss Family Robinson, Wall-E, and The Wizard of Oz, among others. While Klune may have used Pinocchio as a starting point, you can see bits of other works in here as well. Klune ( The House in the Cerulean Sea) is a retelling of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio set in a vague, post-apocalyptic future where the puppets are robots, the whale is a giant airship, and the Blue Fairy is…best experienced on your own. ![]() Unfortunately, this discovery starts off a chain of events that culminates in Giovanni being captured, with Victor determined to rescue him. One day, while scavenging in the massive scrap yard near their home, they find a robot unlike any Victor has ever found. His life for the past 22 years has been solitary, but not lonely, thanks to his robot friends – Nurse Ratched (think Baymax, only sociopathic) and Rambo (if Dug from Up was a roomba). Victor Lawson lives with his father, Giovanni, in a spectacular treehouse complex in the middle of a giant forest. ![]()
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