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Post by trashcanman on Apr 19, 2012 0:17:17 GMT 2
Here is an animated short film that should blow you the fuck out of your socks. There is more awesome in this 9 minutes than there is in the entirety of most large-scale Hollywood releases these days. Imagine a world where creative people like the ones who made this get the kind of push that idiots like Michael Bay who blow through billions of dollars making complete garbage get every day. Enjoy "The Backwater Gospel" now and thank me later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkDrIacHJM&feature=player_embedded |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 19, 2012 10:09:45 GMT 2
Enjoyed it now, will thank you now. Holy shit that was good. Some of the imagery (the grim reaper riding slowly through the town, his black wings in the shadow) was stunning. So what was the message here? That religion can be corrupted to present a twisted version of the original text? That fear and guilt are our main forms of faith?
Just think; this 9 minute film will be seen by a handful of people, and fucking Battleship is the number one movie in the UK right now.
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Post by trashcanman on Apr 19, 2012 20:32:28 GMT 2
The message wasn't necessarily an anti-religious one (although I read that religious folks were offended), but one about the link between intolerance and fear. It just so happens that The Church is a very ample target when it comes to illustrating that point. Death or God or Satan or whatever are just spectators in our lives. All of the fear and hate and violence comes from our own hand, but it is easier for people to transfer all of the bad things to an outside source (scapegoat) than accept responsibility for them. Ironically, blaming others for all of the things we perceive as evil in the world usually does nothing but bring that very evil about. The people were terrified of death (the undertaker) and as a result lashed out at the outsider and then at each other. But death didn't actually DO anything other than exist. It was all them. That is just brilliant. I'd pay a full-price ticket to see this on the big screen before I would that fucking Battleship movie. God, I wish that theaters still showed short films before the feature presentation. There are so many great ones out there. If I were a theater owner, I'd be trying to snap these guys up whenever possible. The Backwater Gospel would've made a prefect opener for Cabin in the Woods or something like that.
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