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Forefront Post 5 An Ostrich Told Me the World Was Fake and I Think I Believe It

The narrative of the film is centered around an office worker who is questioning their animated reality and this is played up for comedy. The film uses a monotonous and sterile "man made" setting of an office to create a sense that the main character is "trapped" in an artificial world. 

Cubical offices have been critisised for their uncannyness and thre are already examples of other depictions of offices as consturcted prisons (e.g The Stanley Parable). Even bigger than this idea is the common trope of an office worker feeling so out of place that they believe there is some kind of conspiracy forcing them into a meaningless cycle of consumerism and work, David Fincher's 1999 filmFight club is a great example of this.

But this film goes a step further. The role of an animator is to create the illustion of life in a way that is believable enough to trick the viewer. The camera is introduced in this film to signify a barrier between the real world you and I live in, and the fake world of animation, this is a really intresting idea as in stop motion the camera is the bridge between the animated world we percieve on screen and the real world we live in. This film draws attention to the medium it uses and narrows in on the function of the medium as a narrative tool. I am beyond impressed.

These are my notes I made while watching the film.

I really like the way this film is framed inside the camera and how this draws attention to the difference between reality and the animated world. especially through the green screen section, as the character explores the set more things are shown to be not as they seem. When the main character is thrust out of the set the camera leaves the screen showing that he is truely out and alive in the real world, he wakes up back in his reality and everythings back to normal but he wrestles with his reality. The comedy of him trying to explain himself and looking insane really relaves the pressure and makes the next portion of the film feel unexpected despite how it was foreshadowed, the tone flips between horror and comedy as it launches into a furnatura advert. it becomes unclear to the viewer if the film is real or if the characters re truly alive and this is really intresting.

Referances

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (2023). YouTube. 4 April. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U29hg7Ljk4 (Accessed: 19 June 2023).

Fight club [DVD] (1999). United Kingdom: 20th Century Fox.

Wade, J. (2023) An ostrich told me the world is fake and I think I believe it (2022) short film review, The Film Magazine. Available at: https://www.thefilmagazine.com/ostrich-told-me-the-world-is-fake-review/ (Accessed: 19 June 2023).

Wreden, D. and Games, G.C., 2013. The stanley parable. Galactic Cafe.

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