Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing each short category. See the Live Action section below and the other shorts sections here.
Animal Behaviour – Canada – 14 minutes
It’s a rather shrewd personification that’s at the back of Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour. We accept the impulses of animals — even adore them sometimes — but prove desperate to curb our own. The idea is that they don’t know better and we do. It’s our more evolved brains that allow us to see how harmful our impulses can be and decide to consciously work towards correcting them. Those who can’t and, more importantly, those who refuse are thus deemed “animals” themselves. Murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals are relinquished of their humanity because they acted without thinking. So the joke is therefore to fantasize what it would be like if wild beasts felt our shame and regret.
Animal Behaviour – Canada – 14 minutes
It’s a rather shrewd personification that’s at the back of Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour. We accept the impulses of animals — even adore them sometimes — but prove desperate to curb our own. The idea is that they don’t know better and we do. It’s our more evolved brains that allow us to see how harmful our impulses can be and decide to consciously work towards correcting them. Those who can’t and, more importantly, those who refuse are thus deemed “animals” themselves. Murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals are relinquished of their humanity because they acted without thinking. So the joke is therefore to fantasize what it would be like if wild beasts felt our shame and regret.
- 2/5/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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