Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Brainsbell
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Matylda Swan
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
Tobias Burrows
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Kirpianuscus
An impressive short animation. from atmosphere to each detail. for the impecable story . and for the great level of realism. a film about delicate manner to discover the near reality. soft, precise, using a familiar warning. proposing a small world , so obvious ignored. and an old fashion story. in a laboratory. in the hunt for a bag.
ccthemovieman-1
Really, I am not dismissing or disrespecting this animated short. It is interestingly drawn and he story sucks you in and keeps you, but it is not appealing enough that I would want to watch it a second time.The best thing I can say about this is that it held my attention all the way. The story isn't funny, isn't profound although it perhaps thinks it might be. It isn't as sad or romantic as some infer, either. I'm sorry, but I can't get choked up on a couple or rats who just met each other in a laboratory and are instantly in love, and then taken away.This is another odd animated film, a serious tale about a rat who follows an empty bag of some snack, like a Cheeto's, that would have a scent that would attract a rodent. We follow the rat's interesting journey - which it is - as he follows the scent and discovers some strange sights.
Polaris_DiB
This animation is very beautiful, but very weird. It's a strange mix of the animal and the anthropomorphic, and the recognizable and the alien. A hungry rat follows a bag of cheetos into a ventilation shaft, which gives away to an animal testing facility where he meets a white female rat, and the two fall in love. They manage to have some brief moments together before a failed escape keeps them permanently apart, in a touching moment of loss.What's the testing facility for? We don't know. Are the white rats genetically engineered? They may be. The story is told through the perspective of the hero rat, so narrative answers like these aren't given. Yet the strange and alien world the rat finds himself in seems so utterly familiar within its alienation, partly because of its science fiction tropes and partly because the rats aren't just rats, they do have vestiges of anthropomorphic characterizations (which become more and more recognizable as the short goes on).This alien/familiar dichotomy creates both wonder and fear, which is aided by the dark film noir quality of the outside of the facility and the washed-out white quality of the inside. No space really seems comfortable in this animation, which makes it terribly cynical. However, the ballet-quality exposition of the bag and the moment when the rats are together give it just enough hope for the audience to really relate to this rat's strange/familiar adventure, which makes the ending just that much more powerful. I don't know what it means, but I can't shake it from me.--PolarisDiB
mdkarr
This short was a pleasant surprise. What a great plot - very original. Who would have thought to make a short love film with rats. They are so misunderstood. I love fancy rats as pets and this short showed that these people know their "rat movements" and how they react to one another and that rats can love too. They looked very realistic like I could just reach out and pet one. They made their fur look soft. The city scape was very realistic and I found myself holding my breath when the little one fell into the science lab. The film movement was fluid and not jerky. The animation was very clean and had just enough shading to make everything look real. I hope to see more animations from them in the near future. Who knew bar codes could mean trouble in the end.
