Loved it
That was great. simple earthy style. Subtle animation. I didn't quite agree with the description of it on the frontpage, whether or not that's mike chen's thing, i dunno. I didn't really see it as a life and death kinda thing. I saw it more as this kid who learns to become an optimist. learns to see the good in the bad. the benana being the metaphor for the good coming from the skater punk metaphor of the bad. The angel seemed like a reference to mortality but seeing as i didn't notice much actual death per se (except for the skater punk at the end, but that's not confirmed, heh), I saw it more as his "learning to fly" from the good--the banana. he learned to take the bad and extract the good from it and learn and go on. Thats just what I saw.
One of the few animations that can extract such a deep review from me, from the first viewing, no less. haha! good work.
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