Once again, this modern-day animated short is different, both in looks and in content.
We see stop-motion animation of wooden mannequins
and we get narration as if we were watching some late 1940s film noir. It's pretty interesting.
A man (the narrator) is fascinated with a contortionist who performed with the Patranski Brothers Traveling Circus. One night the girl couldn't unravel from "an intricate sailor's knot." The narrator notes that "Magda" has a look of panic on her face, so our hero rushes from his seat and unties the girl, saving her. The crowd loves it and the owner of the circus hires our man as a new "shill." The couple become very close as well.
They make his heroics in the circus tent a nightly part of the act. However, the "cheapness,"" as he puts it, of the fake heroics ruins the relationship of the two participants and the story ends suddenly. It's like, "huh....that's it?"
I loved the look of this animated short, especially all the neon and film noir look to it, but the story ends unsatisfactorily, in my opinion. Still, it's pretty interesting and I definitely enjoyed watching it. I would just like to have seen a better ending.....or would it? Maybe that's what you get with "noir" story.
We see stop-motion animation of wooden mannequins
and we get narration as if we were watching some late 1940s film noir. It's pretty interesting.
A man (the narrator) is fascinated with a contortionist who performed with the Patranski Brothers Traveling Circus. One night the girl couldn't unravel from "an intricate sailor's knot." The narrator notes that "Magda" has a look of panic on her face, so our hero rushes from his seat and unties the girl, saving her. The crowd loves it and the owner of the circus hires our man as a new "shill." The couple become very close as well.
They make his heroics in the circus tent a nightly part of the act. However, the "cheapness,"" as he puts it, of the fake heroics ruins the relationship of the two participants and the story ends suddenly. It's like, "huh....that's it?"
I loved the look of this animated short, especially all the neon and film noir look to it, but the story ends unsatisfactorily, in my opinion. Still, it's pretty interesting and I definitely enjoyed watching it. I would just like to have seen a better ending.....or would it? Maybe that's what you get with "noir" story.