Note: For some unknown reason, Imdb has two different pages for this animated short. This page has an incorrect release date, the short is from 1994 not 1997.
I see this as a tale satirizing the way in which society treats knowledge as a status symbol rather than a search for real wisdom, and more importantly, the way in which some parents try to live their own dreams and goals through their children.
Despite the cutesy cartoonish aesthetic, the short is filled with lots of black comedy, ending on a rather surreal note, instead of the sentimental or moralizing conclusion one normally would expect for this kind of story.
Amusing, bizarre, but definitely original.
I see this as a tale satirizing the way in which society treats knowledge as a status symbol rather than a search for real wisdom, and more importantly, the way in which some parents try to live their own dreams and goals through their children.
Despite the cutesy cartoonish aesthetic, the short is filled with lots of black comedy, ending on a rather surreal note, instead of the sentimental or moralizing conclusion one normally would expect for this kind of story.
Amusing, bizarre, but definitely original.
