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growing up, growing old, and dying. really cheerful, right?
i wandered over to my local arthouse theater to watch this year's collection of short animated films up for some increasingly irrelevant award from some increasingly dysfunctional film society. the movies are all good storytelling, but man! are they depressing!
three of the five nominees (bao, one small step, late afternoon) have growing up, growing old, and dying as either the theme or major story driver. one of the two stuck on to bring the collection to a feature length, tweet, tweet, does too.
i'm not sure if this said something about the people who made the movies or the members of academy of dysfunctional filmmaking who chose them, but somebody is facing up to their (parents') mortality. which is all fine and good, but couldn't we get a less depressing theme next year? of this year's collection, only one of the tacked-on movies is at all upbeat (wish box).
i wandered over to my local arthouse theater to watch this year's collection of short animated films up for some increasingly irrelevant award from some increasingly dysfunctional film society. the movies are all good storytelling, but man! are they depressing!
three of the five nominees (bao, one small step, late afternoon) have growing up, growing old, and dying as either the theme or major story driver. one of the two stuck on to bring the collection to a feature length, tweet, tweet, does too.
i'm not sure if this said something about the people who made the movies or the members of academy of dysfunctional filmmaking who chose them, but somebody is facing up to their (parents') mortality. which is all fine and good, but couldn't we get a less depressing theme next year? of this year's collection, only one of the tacked-on movies is at all upbeat (wish box).