Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

• 2000/05/05
• 39 mins
• Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music

• Tags: acrobatics, circus, cirque du soleil, dance, dream, forest, garden, greed, love, magic, short film, trapeze

• Ratings: G 6 18 18

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.

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