Film Shapes

Readers of Terry Pratchett will probably be all over this animated adaptation of his Discworld children's novel, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents . For fellow neophytes, let me fill you in. Maurice is a talking cat and he runs a scam akin to the Pied Piper's gig of ridding towns of rats. The rats are also intelligent, but aren't fully aware of Maurice's intentions - basically greed, it seems. They're under the impression that he's trying to help them find their Shangri-La, a magical island where animals and humans coexist in harmony. This chimeric wonderland is in a book that we're introduced to at the start of the film, narrated to us by Malicia, voiced by Emilia Clarke. The rats presumably found this book somewhere and revere it as their holy tome, but they're later sympathetically disabused of this notion of 'rat heaven' (perhaps a nod to Pratchett's own form of benign atheism?). Could it be that what they've been searching...