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| I dare an animator to trump this with another 12 minute short! Would be really tough because I think this is a masterpiece. The fun thing for me is I watched this for the 'first time' just now only to realize that I actually saw this short a long long time ago when I was more interested in western animation (ie. fantastic planet) and other shorts rather than anime. Was just as impressed then as I am now. |
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| 8 or 9 / 10 it's just really special and beautiful my heart clenched when they were running around the tree. |
| A very good short film. The premise is somewhat the same from Up! I like the acknowledgement of Global Warming here (rising sea levels). There are no words needed to depict a beautiful romance... 7/10 |
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| Oscar w/e this thing shouldn't steal place in ranking of typical animes. Semi, but i wont rate it I dont rate ala special things. |
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| What a great short story |
| I thought this was just amazing. |
| this is so sad but it is heart warming, 12 minutes filled with love, almost have teary eyes 9/10 |
| that evoked emotions from me that entire series couldnt do. It was a beautiful dozen minutes full of creative art and storytelling, it managed to do all of this without any dialogue to boot. |
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| Short but sweet. It makes you reflect on how fast life passes by. 8/10 |
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| I was surprised. So simple yet it says so much in just 12 minutes. |
| A short film on the loneliness and melancholia of an old man. The water for me just represent the fight of just living. The fight to keep your good memories and heritage. |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| Meh. Nothing special. Overrated. |
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| Simple yet beautiful. 9/10 Life is so short... |
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| It's a great, touching short. There's the sweet trip down memory lane, but we'll all end up living isolated in a small room when we age, just minus the water. |
| Absolutely beautiful. A simple but touching tale of an old man, a travel step by step back to his past. Diran-kun said: Meh. Nothing special. Overrated. Go back to your school days |
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| I was bored for the first 5 minutes, but after he started diving, that's where it got me interested, and after finishing it, I say, it's worth every second. I smiled when he successfully proposed, I feel sad when his flashback with his wife ended. I wonder though, where's his family? Edit: That's a cool house. When he dives deeper, I was wondering if the water pressure will get to him.. |
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| I'm almost crying. It's so beautiful, touching and sad. 10/10 |
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| beautiful |
| Heartwarming. Was nearly moved to tears. That old man lived a fulfilling life,9/10. |
| 5th time watching...... Still a 10/10 |
| Great short. Really liked it :D |
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| Does this truly count as an anime? Nevertheless, a great watch. |
| your waifu is shit |
IktIkn said: Why wouldn't it?Does this truly count as an anime? Nevertheless, a great watch. |
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| amazing |
| Was this suppose to be sad? I cried a little as this short film unraveled the old man's life. Thoughts ran through my mind like: Why is this old man alone? What happened to his family? Why doesn't he move somewhere else where the water won't rise anymore? This is truly beautiful and touching! I don't find it odd to have reactions towards films with no dialogue. 10/10 |
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| Just... beautifully simplistic, yet thought provoking. 10/10 |
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| Beautiful movie, just 12 minutes too... |
| That was good. Everyone else around him was dead, and he went down to explore all the rooms representing stages of his life. I liked it a lot. :-) |
| Water took away his life, it's not what a reviewer had posted being about global warming it's about time, water is a metaphor for time, as time passed/water increased his life changed and people were taken away from him. |
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| Third time watching... still love it just as much as the first time, and perhaps even more so. |
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| Fantastic. |
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| reminds me of the movie 'UP' good short was good 8/10 |
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| more people need to watch this. 12 minutes of feels.... furthermore I love all the symbolism of loneliness, sinking past, vanished memories, world becoming smaller as we grow old. such greatness |
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| Holy shit this is beautiful. All this symbolism packed in 12 minutes. |
| Unique. Never seen a past of a person portrayed in this way. Touch of symbolism added in this case. 8/10, it drew me in and i got teary eyed when they showed the time passing around the tree. |
| This short movie really touched me with its symbolism. My take on it all: The whole building basically contained the memories of his whole life from beginning to present. If the building is like a timeline, then the water must be time itself where time can only move forward, so must the water continue rising in quantity. You can only carry so much memories with you to the future as you'll inevitably lose some along the way. You can't dwell on the past or you will drown. The only thing you can do is move forward; keep on adding rooms to that tower, for that represents your will to continue. |
| Pretty solid show Interesting story, I always wondered what a sea-city building on top of itself would be like. I liked the symbolism of how the other houses didn't go as high, because those people either died or left town, to the point where there are only a few left in the end. |
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| That was sad. 3/10 |
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| Underrated imo. |
| Short with no dialog in it but still have so much depth and emotion put into it. |
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