Short Films

Haha! I really enjoyed all of the short films we saw last Monday! Although I didn't understand all of them, they all kept my interest. My favorite one was The Astronomer's Dream by Malcom Sutherland (of course!). I know that animation is very popular but I am almost always drawn to it. No pun intended. Ha!.. It's just so imaginative and fun! I think I giggled throughout the whole piece. I really liked the drawing style and the little city inside the spaceman ship. It reminded me of ancient Central and South American civilizations. Another short film I was drawn to is 200,000 Phantoms by Jean-Gabriel Périot. Its eerie photographs and poem about Hiroshima made me feel sick to my stomach but at the same time a little confused. I like the Japanese culture and all the Japanese people I know are very nice but I still know what they did to other countries, to prisoners of war, and to their own people. I know our country is far from perfect but our screw ups, as far as I know, are in our textbooks. We remember what we did to others so that we can some how reconcile. Japan tortured, raped, and killed many people in the neighboring countries, including Korea and China, and yet they fail to mention this in their textbooks and they have not, to this day, formally apologized for their war crimes. But. Even though they have not reconciled, I don't think they deserved what happened in Hiroshima. It was, in hind-sight, a quick way to stop the war. But it destroyed so many lives!! It makes me so upset. Anyway. Those were the films I was attracted to the most. I did enjoy the other ones as well though!