Animated short of the week: More
"More" is an award winning, academy-nominated animated short film made by filmmaker Mark Osborne in 1998. The 6 minutes film chronicles the life of a lonely individual with a colorless existence, but who is nonetheless propelled to change his life by a (literal) fire in his belly.
I watched this film after a friend recommended it. It portrays the drab, colorless life of a guy living in some sort of hyperindustrialized, perpetually grey metropolis. I think all of us can identify with his situation, especially the part when the fire in his belly keeps pushing him towards something different in his life (depicted literally, with our hero opening a door on his belly and peering into the smoldering furnace inside – how cool is that?).
The ending is more ironic than hopeful but thought provoking all the same; and the soundtrack is really pleasing. Check it out below.
Check out Mark Osborne’s More page, and "More" on YouTube.
[Thanks to my friend MRaei for recommending this one]. If you know of a good animated short that’s worth writing about please drop me a line and let me know.
Look at this video : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5huq_the-piano !
“The ending is more ironic than hopeful….”
Maybe if one is a materialist….
For those of us who find our happiness from within ourselves and don’t measure our worth by the amount of money we make, the fire in our bellies has yet to be extinguished… and we can hope that the children on the playground might find a way to keep theirs from dying out as well. ;O)
Jacques; I watched ‘The Piano’.. how sweet.. thanks for recommending!
This is one of those awesome animations, what i can say is “WOW”
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