In Delicatessen, the French director Jeunet explored cannibalism; in The City of Lost Children, he explored the nature of nightmares; in Micmacs, he explores neo-colonialism. The good people in the film are a group of freaks who live in Paris’s underground. The bad people are the arms dealers who make lots of money from wars in poor countries. The man who initiates the struggle between the freaks and the arms dealers has no luck and a brain that barely functions. The struggle is not beautiful but comic, surreal, and often ridiculous. The film’s ending is the stuff of dreams. by Charles Mudede