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Short Film Research: ( Migrants/ Drama)


     This short film was 8 minutes long and the plot was pretty easy to figure out basically there were polar bears being pushed out of their home lands due to global warming and exiled from brown bear territory being left to fend for themselves on the ocean. In the beginning of the short there was a climax point where the baby polar bear fell of the ice and into the water from the ice breaking and the mother jumps after the baby. This was a great way to start the film it immediately introduce the drama factor that a film should have lots of heart racing and anticipating moments. There was a conflict with the polar bears and the brown bears over food and the was another great way to help deliver a message. Although it is animated the film didn't use and real dialogue just animal noises such as grunts and snorts and well as instrumental music in the background.
    It reminds me of how lonely many of us are. It can be interpreted as a political manifesto, a fact that can detract significantly from its first allure. It's a story about children and their parents, with optimism and dread as possible outcomes. It's accompanied by lovely music and deft character work. However, it is essentially a reminder. Not simply in terms of migration and policies to address it, which are frequently radical, but also in terms of how to discover the other. There is precision, and also the fish are scaled in a herringbone pattern; light shines across sparse fur. This is a place where there are fences and lines, uniforms, and rules. There are enough textures in a simple story that when they are replaced by the flare of reality, it does not feel out of place. In a picture whose transcendence is heightened by a lack of dialogue,  the fragrance of breath. 
    That layered fore-, mid-, and background, the counterpart and depth perception that contributes so much to sell the illusions of motion, not just in crowded shots across bustling forests. The rusting wiggle of creaking tin serves as a temporary shelter as well as a striking shield. What causes bicycle wheels and tin cans to appear among the ordinary waste on the forest floor? What is the meaning behind the vest the brown bears wore? What does the TBPD stand for? The message behind this movie stood out more than your typical animated films and this I believe was a perfect film to help gain some clarity and more experience on drama films. 
    The amount of questions one would have about the ending of the short film you'd wonder what happens next you're sad and concerned about the polar bears being exiled and would love to know how it ends for them. Did humanity do something to save the species in the end when the baby washed up on the beach ? These are the types of things that kept the film interesting and to the point. The political quota is there but there is also and emotional connection for animal lovers, environmentalists, and other different support groups that this short 8 minute film appealed to with such a little time frame.

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