A young boy plays with a wooden duck. He also meets one by the lake while throwing out bread. One day he goes hunting with his father and they kill two ducks that he later sees his mother preparing. He also meets a strange bird which looks a bit like a duck but what is its role in this world of ducks?
I read on another site somebody say about this film that it "really makes you think – but I'm not sure about what" and I thought it was such a perfect summary of this film that I should pinch it and use it myself. That is the feeling one gets from this film because it is free of dialogue but has a lot in it that will make you ponder over it. It plays out slowly in a very deliberate way and I liked that we see the boy experiencing birds in different ways and in all of them the boy is blank faced and observing. I mention this because I thought the film would come out against hunting and would see the boy repelled by the idea of killing these birds, particularly later when he appears to befriend one. However the final shot is a mixed one where an uplifting direction pulls down into something much smaller that doesn't make it dark but tells us that the boy is still on his journey of working out this world around him.
What it means specifically I do not know but I enjoyed the telling; the animation looks very good and moves well and the quiet delivery added to the feel of the material. It did make me think and it stayed with me as a film which for a 10 minute short, is a pretty good result.
I read on another site somebody say about this film that it "really makes you think – but I'm not sure about what" and I thought it was such a perfect summary of this film that I should pinch it and use it myself. That is the feeling one gets from this film because it is free of dialogue but has a lot in it that will make you ponder over it. It plays out slowly in a very deliberate way and I liked that we see the boy experiencing birds in different ways and in all of them the boy is blank faced and observing. I mention this because I thought the film would come out against hunting and would see the boy repelled by the idea of killing these birds, particularly later when he appears to befriend one. However the final shot is a mixed one where an uplifting direction pulls down into something much smaller that doesn't make it dark but tells us that the boy is still on his journey of working out this world around him.
What it means specifically I do not know but I enjoyed the telling; the animation looks very good and moves well and the quiet delivery added to the feel of the material. It did make me think and it stayed with me as a film which for a 10 minute short, is a pretty good result.
