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Reviews for "Animals"

Hmm...

I loved this flash! I think maybe its about that guy getting into heaven or hell?

Exelent

I realy enjoy this film :)

Wonderful!

I loved the part where he jumps off the bridge. 5 to you

Newgrounds needs more of this

This is an excellent movie. I watched it a few times and interpret it as spanning life and death. The scenes animated in greyscale happen before death and the scenes with a red background happen after death. The greyscale scenes have elements that appear in red. These elements span life and death. God transcends human awareness.

I believe the main character to be a man of faith. Certainly faith in Christ, as evidenced by the prominently featured crosses. Also a man in a leadership position, as evidenced by the podium with the triple cross backdrop. This man is secure enough in his faith to prostelitize to his neighbors. However, when tragedy strikes close to home, his rock solid faith is shaken. He is depressed and chooses to end his life.

We aren't given enough information to form a cogent analysis of your thoughts when viewing this film. Therefore your exact point will escape most, if not all of us. I'd like to mention some elements I found specifically interesting. First up is the chairlift. I see it as being a reference to the ebb and flow of human faith. In order for a chairlift to suspend the chairs, it needs towers. You represent these as crosses. The chairs rise when they are near the towers and fall when they are far away. It is an interesting metaphor for religion and the effect it has on human hopes and fears. This concept is explored in the C. S. Lewis book "The Screwtape Letters". It would be very interesting if that was your inspiration. I also liked the imagery of the father crying over his deceased child. The eyes are the window to the soul. Moreover, a child is the light of his fathers eye. I see the tear passing from father to child as expressing the desire and willingness to transfer the light from his eye (his life) to his deceased child. A fathers willingness to die for a child is not unlike Christ's willingness to die for mankind. I'm unsure if this was one of your points, but it draws an interesting parallel. The barbed wire invoked some interesting holocaust themes but I think it was used for visual effect, not to make a statement about the Holocaust. I liked the signposts with years on them. I see everybody in the pens as having been born on the first year listed and died on the second. Who can say how God organizes people post mortem? Dates of birth and death are as good a guess as any. I see the cross falling as the main character walks away as his departure from his faith. The cross doesn't fall all the way down, nor does the protagonist fully leave frame. Perhaps his faith was not completely destroyed by the events that transpired. I think the elevator scene provided good closure to the film. I think that the unnamed main character went to Heaven. However, it was not for his deeds but by the grace of God that he gained admission. If the film shows us nothing else, it shows the dichotomy of this individual. He did good, he did bad, it all meant nothing because in the end, his ultimate fate rested with his creator.

AtmosGames responds:

I do not think anyone else who has reviewed has been more dead-on than you. Perfect and I thank you! That review is so very important to me. I think im gonna save it. As for the screwtape letters and tears and stuff, that stuff is extra and really its up to you to decide what those things meant. But as for Christ's grace, boo ya baby, good work. :)

Keep the change, ya filthy animal.