Watch this.

It’s from the animated film Allegro Non Troppo by Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto.

One could call Allegro a parody of Disney’s Fantasia at first glance, but I see it more as another attempt at doing what Fantasia attempted to do; create beautiful animated works to go along with classical pieces of music.

This section from Allegro is based off the piece Valse Triste (Sad Waltz) from the play Kuolema.

(Just like Fantasia, there are live-action interludes, but I’d argue that Allegro’s interludes are more comedic on purpose, as it seeks to poke fun at Fantasia).

I found this pretty easy, but I am a junkie.

What’s depressing though is what Jonathon Chait points out:

Relevant fact: only 26% of Americans know that it takes 60 Senators to break a filibuster. Perhaps that’s why President Obama went out of his way to point it out in last night’s speech.

Ugh.