ccthemovieman-1
Yes, it's a nice, sentimental "love story" with inanimate objects playing the lead roles: We have the shy portable tape player trying to get the attention of the cute, female little CD boom box. Help from an old Victrola (gramophone?) makes the two young ones connect. Basically, that's it.However, what I liked best was the art work in here. I thought it was just fascinating.The hand ink-like drawings were detailed and the color schemes were great, usually just two colors in the scenes. It thought it far surpassed the story, which was okay but nothing special.
MartinHafer
This is one of the animated shorts from THE ANIMATION SHOW: VOLUME 2. Most of the shorts in this DVD collection are rather poor because very few are funny and the emphasis is much more or art than entertainment in this second installment. For better films overall, see VOLUME 1.While I don't think this film was as brilliant as some reviewers have stated, I would agree that it's one of the better films in this collection. However, be forewarned that the animation style and narrative are a bit odd! All the characters in this short are anthropomorphic radios, tape players, record players or digital music devices! A cassette boom box guy meets a digital lady but he hasn't got the right words. In this bizarre world, these characters cannot speak on their own but must pull the words from the music they play to communicate with each other. So he goes home and tries to piece together various bits and pieces of audiotape to talk to her. This fails miserably and it looks hopeless until he gets some help from an old-time Victrola.As you'd correctly guess, this is a weird film...but also a charming one. Give it a view.
Polaris_DiB
This animated short is a little like the typical story of the guy who wants to meet the girl, but isn't sure if he is really good enough for her, and it's illustrated by the ever-changing world of technology.The guy, in this case, is a cassette player that uses country music to express his feeling of forlorning, only in the privacy of his own room, not the girl's company (the girl in this case is a CD boombox with all the bells and whistles; the popular girl by all means). The guy just doesn't know what to do to express his desire to her, so he searches the help of an old record player, who lets him record the album of his dreams and throws away the country music.It's an interesting way of telling the story, having the technology as representative of outward appearance and the music itself as the expressions inside that all three can share. It also has kind of an interesting little twist to it... when the cassette boy is playing the song for the girl, she accepts him by connecting her speakers into his headphone-jack, which is kind of a reverse-sex situation. This probably is representative of how technology and change through time has created a situation where penetration (dominance) is not really a guy's domain, and the guy's job in a heterosexual relationship is to attract the girl who holds all the cards. Very roll reversal situation neatly illustrated.--PolarisDiB
kyrat
Contains spoilers:I usually hate sentimental tripe, but this film manages to avoid being banal. The cassette tape head is too shy (keeps fumbling while trying to insert a tape) to talk to the cd player head character. His old friend the gramaphone/record helps him find the way to express himself. It's just done perfectly. The right length of time, the way the music and technology are used/portrayed. Even for a cynic who hates sappy stuff, I found this to be a very cute short. I would highly recommend it. This was the best of all the animated shorts I saw as part of the MIke Judge & Don Hertzfeldt "The Animation Show" collection.
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