![]() ![]() ![]() He also discovers that the colony is in danger from the Exterminator (a devilish Paul Giamatti) who's been contracted to rid the garden of all pests. Lucas goes on to have all sorts of adventures and learn Valuable Life Lessons: he joins ant school, helps find food, is attacked by wasps and eaten by a frog. (There are a lot of Capitalised Sentences in this Movie). He is to learn how to work in a team: to collect food, defend the colony and generally prove his is a Good Being by becoming an Ant in his Heart. Once shrunk, he is brought before the Queen Ant (a dreamy-voiced Meryl Streep) who decides his fate. Which is what happens to lonely, bullied Lucas, who is taking his frustrations out on the ant hill in his back garden. My point is, I never had to be shrunk to the size of an ant and be sent to an ant colony to learn how to be an ant in order to respect their right to exist. I even feel sorry for flies (before I swat them), although I have no such qualms when it comes to bluebottles. How would I like it if something large came and stood on me when I was just minding my own business? From that day on I've found it difficult to harm spiders, yucky disgusting snails, Daddy Long Legs and, when they're not attacking me, wasps. On this occasion, however, I was told that ants had as much right to live as I did, even if they did occasionally nip or turn up in the sugar, so I should leave them alone. I was used to hearing my mum complain about them, so to my youthful mind, I was Doing a Good Thing. When I was about six years old, I was told off for stamping on a stream of big black ants making their way from under a flower pot to wherever ants go when they're busy. ![]()
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