This short is one of those creations that is just too personal and lovely to entirely accredit a score to, really. However, it's not so personal that it doesn't have any place to connect with the audience with (like another animated short I've seen where the guy went on talking about his father in the most uninteresting way for a good twenty minutes).
This short is kind of beautiful mostly in its simplicity. The narrator just describes a person in his life as a pretty simple story, "We lived here, we did this, I remember this and this, and then this happened." The feeling of loss and grief, but happiness with past memories, pervades, especially in the grayish cinematography. Despite the fact that the clay characters are very oddly shaped, they don't come across to me as caricatures, they seem much more like Elliot wasn't trying to make them seem particularly special... just individually important.
--PolarisDiB
This short is kind of beautiful mostly in its simplicity. The narrator just describes a person in his life as a pretty simple story, "We lived here, we did this, I remember this and this, and then this happened." The feeling of loss and grief, but happiness with past memories, pervades, especially in the grayish cinematography. Despite the fact that the clay characters are very oddly shaped, they don't come across to me as caricatures, they seem much more like Elliot wasn't trying to make them seem particularly special... just individually important.
--PolarisDiB