awesome
I fully agree with ultimagtr70 cept for the his analysis(hehe anal) of the chairlift bc i dont understand wat he meant by that, but all else i fully agree with. Great work on the movie.
Reviews for "Animals"
Very focused piece of work
I love the imagery and style of art. From what I could tell, this is my perspective. The crosses represent religion. Wherever we find ourselves, there will be some form of religion. Everyone is going no where. Just drifting and following what everyone else is doing. Until death comes, and we grieve, and move on to drift ever so aimlessly through life.
uhhh what?
i no this has somthing to do with death but i gave you a 10 cause it was cool
What I understood...
Continuing with what Albert-0 said... well this is what I understood.
It defenitely has to do with life and most likely death too...
to me it's about sad, boring, changeless and rutinary life
going up with the scalators trhough this life to achieve nothing, just to end up in the place were everything started.
going "up" would be actually moving forward, and the arrows "down" in the tower would be those that cannot complete their goals or fulfill their dreams.
Pretty much how human are, only those with REAL desires and effort can achive somthing at all, and the society nowadays is filled with those that simply let themselves be "carried away by the tide" living today just as they will tomorrow and as the did yesterday, caring about nothing useful and never making a step forward.
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. :)