This seems like a perfect film to provide a student in a graduating class at film school with a good passing mark: it hits the animation button very well, with a scratchy, distorted and often unclear picture representing Kali's life of relative obscurity, living as she does in the shadows.
Then, there are the sonorous tones of the narration by Christopher Plummer, whose soothing voice sounds as if it had just had a frozen tab of margarine melt in it. Every inflection is used to express sympathy with the poor plight of this young girl, who never wanted to be what she is.
The real drawback, one which knocked this short down to a 6 from a probably 8 for me was the basic one-trick-pony aspect of the narrative: It seems the young girl over and over again is repeating the same saying 'I didn't want to be a vampire. I wanted to have friends. Friend with whom I'd play in the light'. A little more context and/or development could have really worked here.
Still, a very credible effort.
Then, there are the sonorous tones of the narration by Christopher Plummer, whose soothing voice sounds as if it had just had a frozen tab of margarine melt in it. Every inflection is used to express sympathy with the poor plight of this young girl, who never wanted to be what she is.
The real drawback, one which knocked this short down to a 6 from a probably 8 for me was the basic one-trick-pony aspect of the narrative: It seems the young girl over and over again is repeating the same saying 'I didn't want to be a vampire. I wanted to have friends. Friend with whom I'd play in the light'. A little more context and/or development could have really worked here.
Still, a very credible effort.
