Review of Doodlebug

Why does this have to be some great metaphor for something? I just see it as a great little flicker of darkness that takes you on a brief surreal journey that plays off of the senses. To me this short's like a dark joke with the end being the punchline. You see a rough-looking man, he's hopping around a dank room, swatting at something we can't see, which soon turns out to be himself, which is needless to say, odd. Than you see that the miniature man is attempting to squish some kind of micro version that is smaller still. You notice that all three(and very possibly more)are all making the same gestures, and that those gestures are happening closer and closer together, just as a startling realisation enters the mind-POP! Short's over. Mildly unsettling. Those were my exact reactions when I first watched this-although I did actually watch it years ago but completely forgot all about it.(not good) I mean, the man: you have no idea if he's mad, a junkie having a bad trip(he was all sweaty and ragged), or is it his nightmare that we're seeing? I believe it's a nightmare becomes of how everything seems to culminate and converge just as it ends. Because, many times in my own dreams and nightmares,(of which I am eternally grateful to whatever unknowable forces there may be) I've felt a very strong and lucid sensation of my own scattered self and consciousness rushing together just as I wake up. I read somewhere once that everybody you meet in your dreams is actually you. So why was the guy trying to kill himself? Maybe he was just trying to kill the little parts of his personality that he subconsciously couldn't stand, and some bigger, deeper subconscious part of himself from the dark depths of his mind had a desire to swallow-up and erase himself... It was a kaleidoscopic effect, all was one and one was all, and a kind of visual sleight-of-hand. You're so busy looking at the little thing on the floor that you're not looking at where the magician's hands are going. Not seeing the bigger picture. I thought this short was a pretty cool, mind -bending idea that was very well done. Of course, being only three mins long its quality is limited. I've seen far better shorts-but never one quite like this. Thank you.