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Crazy and Dinamic, The epic Yutarou Kuubo's work is the depiction of life in Japan(workers and animators), a loop of 8 seconds of amazing art, or is it? The interpretations are all yours. I find this short to be a brilliant piece of art.

So in this couple of weeks I have been watching a lot of shorts..in particular degenerated shorts...and Today I surfed the internet on Mal dementia genre and It immediately jumped in my eyes this...

00:08 A short that at first glance I wasn't sure about infact..a name like this seemed dumb and uninteresting.. but hey I was dumb and uninteresting for thinking this..infact then I read "an 8 second animation repeated in loop or it is all there?" This "summary" caught my attention so..

Thanks to my curiosity I started watching it and that thought I had just 1 minute before starting it dissapeared in an instant
I voted it 9 after all
Why? I'm going to tell you why right now:

Story and character: I give both an 8.5(Animation are included to because the story is told with them :D)

We are introduced to a man(obviously main character infact is the only character here) who's apparently just drinking a Cup of coffee in an 8 fast paced animation..but then you'll find out that the same animation constantly repeat and you can see that something is strange... something is changing little by little adding new animation to the first one...alternating reality with fiction infact
As the animation constantly repeat we'll going deep into our protagonist mind and colors, fast and fluid animation, and even forms and geometric forms will go crazy as the short is proceding to its end
But why?Why? You're probably asking? The answer is that our protagonist is a worker and the repeating session of the same animation that it is mutating and changing and evolving and degenerating every time lets our viewer think that this man is extremely stressed by overworking(a common issue in modern Japan, especially in the animation sector)... I arrived at this conclusion because coffee isn't just a random drink put in the short because that's it..but it is usually drinked by workers to stay up the entire night and continue their work(this is common also not only to animators in general but even to game producers and animators and producers who work in a small studio and in a restricted amount of time for finding new ideas and build them to complete their project)
But that's not only it isn't it...infact the constantly repeating animation with added forms and parts espressed in a very free and not limited way..lets us think that as the 8 second of animation constantly repeat so does the worker day repeat again and again and again..he wakes up everyday and as he drink a cup of coffee to calm his anxieties and get rid of his daily stress
But not only they're repeating..it's because they're repeating that it all the days becomes monotonous and the man becomes tired and maybe even bored of his job.
But then at the end the degenerated and distorted..or even crazy animation stop in an instant...because one day he realised that all was pointless...that It was pointless to become crazy and so stressed at that point for what he loves to do...he loves his jobs and so those animation prove that this short was made out with great intentions
Infact the worker stops all the thinking...He doesn't drink his cup of coffee after that..he leaves it on the table because at the end he understand his mistake..he has to go to sleep to regain energy to start to work again and do what he loves to do..
Stressing himself to do what he has to do infact of course is not the way to live properly your life and to be creative(as this one short is..with literally life forms..geometric forms..colors changings..beautiful added scenes ecc...) as an animator and inventor and even if he has responsabilities health is the first thing to keep in mind.

Plus Animations and Art + Music/Sound:I Give it a 9 I absolutely love that style and I think It was great mixed well with genious use of music
What I must say about this short is that the animations and its pacing(yes its pacing) his managed stunningly infact..the music (that is perfect anyway) it build up tension and it can make you feel the pain and stress of the protagonist..it starts up with a normal and varied rhythm..infact sometimes it almost stops and so does the animation..they follow the music and its rhythm..even the form they distort perfectly and freely..and as the short was going I could really feel that.. every animation was in sync with the music and speaking of music this helped their continuous changing and evolving to become even better
For example lines that turn into a house that turns into a face all distorted through music
The use of colors..every one of them is different and they are varied as the forms transformed in other things in this little yet great short

SPOILER AND INTERPRETING:
Anyway the monotonous aspect of the days of the worker it is not a theory because it was proven by some scenes that shows you more than one version of the man picking the cup of coffee..also I know that he's a worker from a frame where you can see a man with a gray/black suit that literally means he's going to work and other figures around him.

SUMMARY:
So we can say that our "protagonist" wants to be creative and as the animations and music go insane his works do..he'll put out a lot of ideas everyday and he's overworking himself but at the end he realises that he don't have to stress himself because he loves his job and he should think about his health first and go to sleep..because at the end he, and every creator in general, aren't machines, the worker runs out of ideas..as it all stops and he decide to not stay up anymore.(he doesn't drink the cup of coffee and he puts it on the table)

Enjoyment: I give it a 9; 5 minutes passed like 1 minute..what I'm saying like 30 seconds because I really appreciated this work and I think it became one of my favourite so far
This is also pure creativity..from one thing to another..one thing represented in the next frame with other forms in the visuals..TRULY AMAZING STYLE

Overall: I give it a 9/9.5; Kubo, Yuutarou this is the name of the artist and director and if you're going to like his style and shorts be sure to watch some of his other works too as I will do...("Crazy for it" might be for you!)
This is trully a great piece of animation that as to be remembered..and for what it has to offer I advise you to go and watch it right now..in 5 minutes you want regret this ride..you want forget this messages!

Thanks for all those who are still reading this and I hope you endured my inaccurate English .. sorry for that..I'll try to improve myself ;)