Response for Fallen Art

Fallen Art is a great black humor animation, also it's full of political metaphors in character design, details and the plot.

Through the dramatic character design I can realize the characters' social statue and personalities. The soldiers are skinny and weak,it matches their lowest statue,the plebeian class. Also their eyes are hided by their caps that stands for the situation of obeying orders without question. the military officer and the chief are big and strapping, which indicate their strong power like ruling class. But the difference between them is the hidden eyes. The military officer wares a caps which hides his eyes as well as the soldiers, it express the same meaning that he is the one who following the orders. However, the chief is the only one who didn't use any tool to hide his eyes, because he is the one who has the most power; he realizes every truth and can command all of the people in the animation.  I think the design of doctor is the most interesting character for me.  He looks like a skeleton in white coat, it could explain his marble-hearted personality. A doctor should help people keep their lives, but here the doctor ignore the soldiers' lives and calmly takes pictures. Under the martial environment, the doctor has lost his ethics and help ruling class control their people.

The unfair treatments also ironically show in many details of the animation. For example, the warning sign for no photo, the smile medals for the dead soldiers, the soldiers don't know the true purpose till them died. Another detail, from the picture I realized the previous chief is much thinner than now, he is crazy in art, and he look happy in his younger photo. So I know the chief used to be a normal person who loves art; and he has friends who made him happy. For now, power make him fat and sick. He still loves art but use power to make it in a more cruel way (kill his people to make art). He is lonely in his room with no one around him, I guess maybe his friends has been frame up by him, in order to get power. He miss his previous time (he cries), but he won't give up his statue and power so that he is cruel and trough. Politic is dark, war is ruthless.

Otherwise, the organization of the plot is ingenious. At the beginning the director make a set of event to attract audience's curiousness, then display the truth unexpectedly. That's make audience interests in the story until the end. At the same time, the director didn't directly show people the ruthless of the ruling class, the darkness of politic and the cruel of the war; he use a black humor story but make people think about these things. The influence of the animation for the audience is much better than show them up a serious one.

So many thing I can learn from the animation.