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The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man...
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Stop Motion
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Morality
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Fishing Pole
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Parable
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Won Oscar.
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First-rate animation short
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Referenced in National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
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This short film was completely absorbing and finely worked out. It held my attention from the moment it began until the conundrum of an ending, which earned it a round of applause at the 19th Street Theatre in Allentown, PA, where I saw it. The film illustrates the need for humankind to cooperate and shows what happens when one doesn't do so, when he puts his selfish interest above the good of the group, even to sending others to their death. One's selfish pursuit cannot be justified, the film implies, even in the pursuit of art (after all, it was music in the box and the man wanted that music for himself or wanted to explore the interior of the box, i.e., the music, in greater depth). Film has many implications, would repay several viewings and stimulate much discussion.