I treasure this animation for its simple yet devastating resonance. You see this girl, Astrid, in this bleak world as she types “there is an idea no one wants, it waits to be remembered” and I think that idea is death as it coincides with Memento Mori (Remember you must die). On her table, in her childhood bedroom that she has uncomfortably outgrown, lies two pencils, a box cutter, poison, and a crow figurine. This frame strikes me the hardest—these are all toys of some form. The box cutter and poison, in a way, are toys of self-destruction and as she picks the poison, you understand that she remembers the idea of Death and welcomes it. Because death is always there, from our childhoods to our adult years, it will always be like a toy waiting to be played with. Death ultimately manifests itself as something familiar (the crow) since Death is not evil but just apart of life. He then sits with her as she sees the bleakness of perhaps purgatory, noting that it is no different than the world she left. Maybe that is what the tittle refers to? The fact that not only are we dying by the second but the world is too. Everything that inhabits it, we are all connected by Death. Astrid eventually stands up from the swings and I think this is where, maybe, that thought possess her. Still have some questions regarding this animation but it oddly comforts me.
I treasure this animation for its simple yet devastating resonance. You see this girl, Astrid, in this bleak world as she types “there is an idea no one wants, it waits to be remembered” and I think that idea is death as it coincides with Memento Mori (Remember you must die). On her table, in her childhood bedroom that she has uncomfortably outgrown, lies two pencils, a box cutter, poison, and a crow figurine. This frame strikes me the hardest—these are all toys of some form. The box cutter and poison, in a way, are toys of self-destruction and as she picks the poison, you understand that she remembers the idea of Death and welcomes it. Because death is always there, from our childhoods to our adult years, it will always be like a toy waiting to be played with. Death ultimately manifests itself as something familiar (the crow) since Death is not evil but just apart of life. He then sits with her as she sees the bleakness of perhaps purgatory, noting that it is no different than the world she left. Maybe that is what the tittle refers to? The fact that not only are we dying by the second but the world is too. Everything that inhabits it, we are all connected by Death. Astrid eventually stands up from the swings and I think this is where, maybe, that thought possess her. Still have some questions regarding this animation but it oddly comforts me.
