When the day breaks
November 6th, 2007
Directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, written by Wendy Tilby.
Description: This Oscar nominee will seem strange at first seeing as it’s about people, but represented as animals, in a daily human environment, performing typical human actions. The point of the animation, as far as I can tell is to illustrate the interconnections between the lives in a big city, lives that even though at first sight may seem totally uninfluenced by one another, are actually connected, and sometimes in quite meaningful ways. However, I have not been able to elucidate the mystery of why the characters in this animation are animals. Maybe you have an idea?
IMDB link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0200282/
November 10th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Well, maybe it’s just an allegory on Memory and how one is bound to forget in order to survive in a big city. Animals live in the present - that’s what makes them go on - this implies forgetting. We as human beings in a big urban environment we tend to do the same : think about the beggars in the subways, in the streets, think about show many violent and agressive scenes we pass by every day … But, we go on by ignoring and forgetting - and this part of our struggle for survival. Memory of a golden fish .