THE BOX | Omeleto
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2019-08-13に共有
THE BOX is used with permission from Dusan Kastelic. Learn more at bugbrain.com/.
In a strange, dark box lives a group of box-headed elderly humanoid creatures with roots instead of legs. Most of these creatures are sunken into a catatonic sleep, unaware of anything outside their hermetic, sealed-off world.
But one of them emerges from the crowd, stunned into consciousness. Young and growing, the creature starts to cause a joyful ruckus, but struggles against the disapproval and rancor of the rest of his box-dwellers. But then the youngster begins to fight back, looking for a way outside the box but coming against its most oppressive forces yet.
Writer/director/animator Dusan Kastelic's short animation is a surreal yet exuberant allegory about the pleasures and perils of non-conformity, being an individual and pushing through obstacles to a new level of consciousness.
The narrative takes the phrase "outside the box" and spins it into a deeply imaginative, hypnotic narrative that resembles a fairy tale. Not a sanitized children's version of a fairy tale, however: the film instead resembles the original European fairy stories, which were dark, psychologically complex and disquieting in their emotional violence.
The images are nightmarish, with their evocations of distorted flesh and murky colors. But the expressiveness of the creatures and attention to detail -- created in open-source 3-D software Blender -- are remarkable from a technical and emotional level, and draw in viewers with a powerful combination of gesture, sound and storytelling.
Despite the claustrophobic world portrayed in the film, there are splashes of zany humor and joy, particularly as the younger creature expresses its unbridled childlike self. The musical score and sound design by Mateja Staric go a long way to create contrast between stultifying conformity and youthful individualism, as well as keeping the narrative at a consistently engaging pace.
Despite its strange appearance, the uninhibited joyousness and high spirits of the newly emergent creature are so much like the energy of children, and viewers cannot help but relate. Yet THE BOX becomes genuinely sad and painful as the youngster is repeatedly brought down and cut down to size, and confronts the mechanisms of the box itself that keep its inhabitants docile and in the dark.
Watching that struggle becomes a powerful metaphor for the oppression and conformity that we all face, whether it's the box that society puts us inside or the ones we put ourselves in. To watch the creature struggle against a dark, narrow world is hard, and yet, as the creature discovers, as long as you can feel a spark of an essential self, there is always a way towards the light.
コメント (20)
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Whoever thought of this was thinking outside “the box” I’ll show myself out
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jealous when they grow laugh when they down shock when they up this is society
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I think it was overlooked how the oddball's head stayed flattened like everyone else but still set himself free despite so, in some sort of way that level of comformity to everyone else would still come around as part of his growth even after overcoming the limitations set by society or what the box, like he was able to lift himself while also having been in the place the others are in
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That part where all the creatures start laughing after their fellow's head gets boxed down is most heartbreaking. 😪
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He’s not like other depressed trees. He go OOOOWAAEEYAAAOOOWAYEEE
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Oh God, it's heartbreaking when you realize that he's not inherently different from everyone else; they were all like him once. 😟
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The whole story is reminding me of what school did to us.
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This short film has left me more uncomfortable and also searching for answers, I wonder what happened to the little brilliant guy outside that horrible box, that place is hell, I really feel so sorry to those poor lost souls who are stuck in limbo for how long only God knows, i just wish there was part two to clear my mind, nevertheless it is the most striking animation Ive ever seen, pliz do part two where all these miserable souls are free and their captivators are on the horrible box,
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Me: goes to the kitchen at 3am The door: OOOOOOOOWWWWWAAAAAAYYYYYEEEEEE
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Not going to lie, when his head was smashed in, I felt a lot of emotion. I felt really bad because I realized that all of the others were once like him. They were all once unique until that happened to them. Makes me feel like this could represent what happens in every day life. If you're the black sheep, people will laugh and mock you until you're just like them.
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6:51 Shine~On~You~Crazy~Diamond~ This song really matches this whole movie
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Getting out of the box, is to have the courage to be different and remain true to your self. That is what for me meant this film. Decide to be different, to think outside of the box, to escape that box filled with limitations from society but also from our own self perceptions and the limitations we imposed to ourselves and project into others. You were born to be different!!
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Artists are children who survived adulthood
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So basically... the machine = society the odd one = a dreamer the others = average folks who gave up on dreams a long time ago the box = phony limitations box-shaped heads = thinking inside the box (and being punished for not doing so) bright eyes = hope, happiness and a sense of wonder I wonder where he went...
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He didn't give up even after they bashed him down. He got the last laugh.
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This animation deserves an award
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"Red Eyes" found a different path, escaped the norm. Doesn't think inside 'the box'. What waits outside is unknown, but took the chance.
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This is my analysis: The light in the kid's eyes is happiness. The flat-headed guys have became miserable because of their envy. They get mad at other's happiness, and they celebrate other's failures. That's why they can't stand the kid's joyful singing. They have no happiness (hence no light in their eyes) and they can't stand others being happy. See that guy at 6:05 get scared as he sees the kid has grown taller and also developed legs? That's an envious person's ego feeling threatened. So the whole envious squad shouts to draw the machine's attention, because they know what will happen when that machine comes down. They want to bring down the young dude to make him unhappy like themselves. That's why they all laugh at him getting hammered down. You know what's the worst part about this? They know how it works because they've been there before. They were all joyful once, and got smacked because of other's envy too. And still they can't even let others be happy. I think that's how envious people work in the real world too.
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After being hammered, society laughs at him which makes him angry, but due to anger his eyes glows and glows brighter than ever showing that he used his anger as motivation. I suggest he should have also slapped his neighbor before escaping.
