This short was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. There will be spoilers ahead:
This short starts out with a boy and girl sitting quietly drawing. The boy breaks one of his colored pencils and tries to sneak a pencil from the girl's pencils instead of sharpening the one he broke. She catches him and takes her pencil back.
The boy is unhappy with this, so when the girl draws a flower, the boy draws a car, which animates to crush the flower by driving over it. The girl flattens the tires on the car and so begins a fight between the two with coloring pencils drawing things to "one up" each other.
Eventually, weapons come into the picture and things take an ugly turn. It basically turns into a shooting war in drawings, which in the end transfers from drawings to an actual fight between the two children.
The implications of the war on paper and some of the things which happen toward the end of the short are disturbing and the anti-war theme of the short is very clear and forceful. It's a remarkable piece of work.
The is from Zagreb Films, so far as I've been able to determine, it isn't in print but is available for viewing online and is well worth watching. Most highly recommended.
This short starts out with a boy and girl sitting quietly drawing. The boy breaks one of his colored pencils and tries to sneak a pencil from the girl's pencils instead of sharpening the one he broke. She catches him and takes her pencil back.
The boy is unhappy with this, so when the girl draws a flower, the boy draws a car, which animates to crush the flower by driving over it. The girl flattens the tires on the car and so begins a fight between the two with coloring pencils drawing things to "one up" each other.
Eventually, weapons come into the picture and things take an ugly turn. It basically turns into a shooting war in drawings, which in the end transfers from drawings to an actual fight between the two children.
The implications of the war on paper and some of the things which happen toward the end of the short are disturbing and the anti-war theme of the short is very clear and forceful. It's a remarkable piece of work.
The is from Zagreb Films, so far as I've been able to determine, it isn't in print but is available for viewing online and is well worth watching. Most highly recommended.
