I have not received such pleasure from a short film for a long time. And it's not just because of good animation and tricky story. The plot is not complicated - a young bouquiniste tells a schoolgirl an old legend about a battle with a giant spider, defeating which, the hero saves the life of one of her baby spiders. The schoolgirl is not interested in old books and stories, like in everything "unfashionable" - she is a practical girl who needs money for rent, and also, it seems, she is fascinated by a "good-natured" bouquiniste. She accidentally rips off the seal from an old book, freeing a spider-little girl from a story told by the bouquiniste. It seems to the schoolgirl that the bouquiniste is bewitched by this little spider, behind whose "kawaii" appearance there is a cannibal monster who has chosen the bouquiniste as its victim. She offers to get rid of the spider and the couple go for an advice to an old bouquiniste, who, after listening to a younger colleague and a schoolgirl, says that the situation cannot be left to chance and gives advice on "getting rid of". But to whom and from whom?
"Forget-me-not spider" is, first of all, an ironic parable, rethinking and developing the "Let Me In" story. The parable about those and for those who hasten to save "innocent victims" from monsters. It may well turn out that "innocent victims" are not at all so innocent as it seems from the outside, and it is not by chance that they are fascinated by monsters. And rescuing is actually required by the "rescuers" themselves in order to run away from the "rescued." Perhaps the monsters themselves were created by their "victims" in order to get rid of the annoying "uninitiated" who pocks into other people's affairs and, moreover, intend to "correct and rescue" them? Or interfering with other people's hobbies, because you never know what a philatelist is capable of, if you force him to throw out his stamp collection) The final scene with a dialogue between two bouquinistes who understand each other and each of whom has his own "forget-me-not" is simply magnificent!
"Forget-me-not spider" is, first of all, an ironic parable, rethinking and developing the "Let Me In" story. The parable about those and for those who hasten to save "innocent victims" from monsters. It may well turn out that "innocent victims" are not at all so innocent as it seems from the outside, and it is not by chance that they are fascinated by monsters. And rescuing is actually required by the "rescuers" themselves in order to run away from the "rescued." Perhaps the monsters themselves were created by their "victims" in order to get rid of the annoying "uninitiated" who pocks into other people's affairs and, moreover, intend to "correct and rescue" them? Or interfering with other people's hobbies, because you never know what a philatelist is capable of, if you force him to throw out his stamp collection) The final scene with a dialogue between two bouquinistes who understand each other and each of whom has his own "forget-me-not" is simply magnificent!
