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A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.
I did not like this very much. The animation style is neat and it’s got great sound design, but the camera work was odd and out of place. The plot is barely recognizable and I never got a sense for the world the short was in. It’s my least favourite of all the Oscar nominated shorts so far.
adore the use of handheld cameras in stop-motion (no wonder this got itself an oscar nomination) and this is sure to inspire a lot of people with dreams of working on animation. hopefully next time this style can be paired with equal attention to the writing as the story falls short compared to how good it looks.
The animation was exceptionally pretty, but I couldn't buy into the concept of a father and daughter completely falling out for the rest of their lives because he didn't hug her once when she was 8 years old, because his hands were soapy and the stove was on fire.
She held this grudge until he died.
And then the power of realising how unreasonable she had been for the last ten years brought him back to life.
Part II of V of the 2020 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
If you thought the animation in Coraline was creepy, wait until you get a load of this…
Daughter is an unconventional stop-motion that is directed with some of the most schizophrenic camera mannerisms ever put to animation. It’s told under a very abstract and obscure method yet you at least understand an idea of how the daughter’s brain is functioning and what the relationship between her and the father might be. “It’s borderline experimental.”
The low Letterboxd rating is criminal, by the way. DON’T HATE THE STRANGE.
non mi spiego come cazzo abbiano fatto a fare un corto in stop motion come se fosse girato con una telecamera a spalla, pazzesco. also, i'm in need of a hug from my father.
I loved the aesthetic of this one. It's gorgeous looking and it's pretty impressive since it's a stop motion short that's primarily shot in handheld, which doesn't seem that crazy except when you think about how it must've been shot with all that stop motion.
Story wise it's a little mixed. It's purposefully vague and visually told, but it's message and characters seem to be muddled, I wasn't sure if the daughter was upset that she felt unloved or her father wasn't there? It's confusing and the long shots of nothing happening doesn't help. There's lots of shots of nothing that hold on characters expressions, but they're not really making an expression so it's just a puppet.
I don't know, aesthetically I enjoyed it, but its actual story and themes were messy
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