«A key question now is to know how the human of the 21st century can reactivate his animality and animalize himself anew when all Western thought since the Greeks tells him that he is human precisely because of this rupture with animality,» Lestel suggests, building on his critique of
the very philosophical foundations of the ethological tradition.
Lewis» writing takes a fantasy world but sets it on a
very solid religious and
philosophical base, and while the most overt representation of that
foundation is here, screenwriters Adamson, Ann Peacock, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely have lessened the substance of the story to the point that the film operates almost exclusively as a visual adaptation.