The third generation of Emily clones travel through time to find the young first generation of Emily, in order to retrieve a forgotten childhood memory before their own limit comes...
In the melancholy and long piano background sound, the third generation of Emily recounted to the first generation emily the social form after 227 years and the trajectory of her own life. In order to escape the crowd, she chooses to work with robots in outer space, where she falls in love with a hard rock and an oil pump until she meets the little monster Simon, but in the end she returns to Earth because she misses her hometown, leaving Simon heartbroken... Three paragraphs are all love that ends in no way, some people say that "meeting is a matter of two people, leaving is a decision of one person, meeting is a beginning, leaving is to meet the next departure." It's a world of pops to leave, but neither of us is good at saying goodbye. ”
In the end, she meets her husband David on Earth, and the third generation of Amy admits that her mind is still not strong enough to accept his death... Life is inherently sad and serious. We came into this wonderful world, met each other, greeted each other, and traveled together for a short time, and then we lost each other...
After the vicissitudes of the world, the last thing the elderly third generation Emily wants to find is the warm memories of walking hand in hand with her mother and meeting Hong when she was a child, and the deep nostalgia for the mother body drove her to start this time journey. In fact, people's feelings for their hometown are not only about missing a specific piece of land, but a vast mood, not limited by space and time, and this desire once aroused will make people fall into the abyss of emotion...
Directed by American animation director Don Hertzfeldt, the sci-fi animation won Best Animated Short Film (nominated) at the 88th Academy Awards and Best Animated Short Film at the 43rd Animated Annie Awards, and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2015.
Don Hertzfeld has created a number of high-quality animated shorts, winning the Palme d'Or at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival in 1999 for "Violent Little Balloons", winning the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film (nominated) in 2001 for Rejected, and nominating him for Best Animated Feature at the 38th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards in 2012 for Everything Will Be OK. His animated films have received more than 150 awards and have been broadcast around the world. And in 2010, at the age of 33, he won the "Visual Persistence" Lifetime Achievement Award at the old Golden Mountain International Film Festival. In 2012, it was ranked 16th among the "100 Most Influential Animated Characters" by the Animation Industry and History Survey.
The wonderful dialogue of this film is appreciated:
The light is the life. Robot must move. Move, robot, move. But why?
Light is life, robots need to chase, chase, even if they don't know why
Move, move, move. Robot. Forever move.
My generation will not stop, talking about multiplication to the end, chasing after the chase, the sun rises and sets
You only appreciate it when it is the past.
You will never cherish it unless it is now in the past
When the night is at its most quiet, I can hear death.
If everything is quiet, death is clearly audible
I am very proud of my sadness because it means I am more alive.
I'm proud of this sadness because grief means I'm still alive
Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail.
Don't waste time on everyday trivialities, and don't dwell on inconsequential details
For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time.
Because these will eventually fade into ashes in the rough times
Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now.
Live well, open your heart, and you should live in the present moment when you live in this world
Now is the envy of all of the dead.
The word "now" is the greatest luxury for the dead
(Editor: Ji Chenchen)
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