This scene is absolutely beautiful, in a sadly haunting way. The black&white picture reminds me of something like Through a Glass Darkly, the way the photographer has captured the misty tableau. The shading, the focus into the background...just perfect. This photograph is like the heart of very deep and dark waters, so vast in its loneliness. It's the work of a miniaturist soaring into the realm of the epic. Wonderful.
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“Une Histoire Vertebrale” (A Backbone Tale) is an award-winning animated short film by the French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin, which in the classic comic tradition manages to be sadly touching, romantic and funny at the same time. In our eternal race to find love and happiness, some unfortunate souls start with a handicap, as is the case of the sad little man we join in this film. A malformation of his backbone forces our hero to walk with his head held low, permanently fixed toward the ground.
How on earth is he supposed to search for happiness, to find his loved one, when all that his eyes can see are his own little feet? And who’s going love him, someone who looks so sad, terribly lonely, and very different from other people? The emotional state of this poor little fellow, his loneliness and quest to find another human being like him, reveals a profound analysis of the alienation and frustration of people: man needs to live with other men.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations from the film, as well as the wonderfully touching animated short, “A Backbone Tale.”
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The amount of wild animals caught or eaten each year is close to or possibly even exceeding the species’ maximum yield levels. One day, they’ll be driven to extinction due to human intervention. The extinction of these animals will cause us losing our rich biological system forever.The amount of wild animals caught or eaten each year is close to or possibly even... more
