It's not despite the short runtime, but precisely because of it that short films tend to be more meaningful than full length movies. It's the limit that makes it shine.
The moment where she was dripping with blood and excitement just trying to find this killer for her husband, and looking up to see not the criminal eyes, but her own really just crushed me.
Yeah, tbh having big pupils in that moment made her look way more psychotic than if she had small ones. Same goes with every scene after that where she still has large pupils.
5:56 Here. Right here. I love how it lingers. She doesn't even realize that it's her own eyes at first. Then, quickly, you see her realization as she fully breaks down. This short film is probably the best I've seen, if not one of.
i love how it almost takes her a second to process that she isn't looking into the eyes of the police sketch anymore, those are *her* eyes. the pause on that shot shows us so much of what she's feeling. she is so manic that she can't even recognize her own eyes for a moment, she just wants to stare into the eyes of the killer as a sign of triumph and pure revengeful rebellion, but as she does, she realizes how similar they look.
also that her eyes are normally always round and destinctivly different, but now she saw those were exactly the same as the killer''s eye making her realise what her actions as led to
It’s a small detail but I absolutely love how the cat’s whiskers are shown as neat/straight in her flashbacks, but after her husband is killed her whiskers become messy and wavy.
just noticed this, but i love how her flashbacks at first are like her being disassociated from her own body. she’s not seeing it exactly how she saw it while it happened, she’s watching as a third person, but then when she realizes the mistakes she had just made, her flashbacks are seen in first person. she’s back in her own body, seeing through her own eyes.
@@sparrowanon wait what? i can’t even understand what you’re saying 👁👁 and i’m not a furry, i draw cats, feral cats. either way, theres not anything wrong with or about furries.
I love how everyone's talking about how her perspective in the flashbacks switch after she looks into her own eyes instead of the killer's, but nobody is talking about how, in the very last scene of flashbacks, it's from the perspective of her husband. He's looking at her, and you can just begin to see the calm birthplace of a welling, manic grief. It's beautiful.
I love how the closeup on the eyes of the sketch was a leadup to them being replaced with her own eyes in the mirror after the act she did, showing how in her pursuit she ended up doing exactly what the person she was hunting did, a robbery turned fatal stabbing leading to a fire.
This animation is incredible, but to mention this was created by COLLEGE STUDENTS! The details and everything in this video is truly breathtaking yet heartbreaking. Props to everyone who worked on this!
I absolutely love the parallel that both the house break-in and the gas station explosion can both be described as “robbery leaves leaves one dead” as shown in the newspaper clipping in the beginning. (Her husband, in the house robbery, and the gas station employee/manager in the explosion)
I also like how when she’s lying injured after the explosion, she blinks and sees her husbands murderer and then sees the employee in the spot when she blinks again. Shows how she thinks he’s just an obstacle in her way to getting revenge on the murderer.
I like how all the memories are shown in third person perspective; up until the point she sees her eyes and realizes what shes doing. Like she'd been disconnecting herself from reality so she could be brave enough to act with cruelty, and it resulted in tragedy. Just like the robber who killed her husband.
I feel like it was also her seeking revenge for *two* people who were murdered…: Her husband, and the happy, innocent, untraumatized version of herself.
I think it’s rather impressive that this whole story was told without words. The first sentence we hear is ‚911 what’s your emergency‘ when she was the cause of that emergency, and not when she actually needed help before when she had the emergency… I love short films
Every time I come back to this animation I swear I notice new details. I hope everyone who worked on this is doing well now, this was beyond talent, this was passion
I think the key moment is when she realizes she can't get her love back. Even if she completes the revenge, it's all in vain. Interestingly, this message transcends the original meaning of the animation. All of us who have gone through a loss, be it grief or a breakup, know the emptiness of wanting to go back to a past that no longer exists. Part of the healing process is letting go. Edit: wow, this blow up! Much love from Brazil ♥
I love how she didn’t even get time to grieve when he died, she immediately sought out revenge and that was all she could think of until she saw her reflection in the mirror and seen she had become the thing she was trying to get revenge on, then the grief hits her.
As someone with ptsd, nothing is scarier than seeing similarities between yourself and your abuser. The mirror scene illustrated that really beautifully
I know what you mean..After 3 abusive relationships, I fought tooth and nail to never be like that..to always help others and never allow who I'm friends with or in a relationship with feel like I did. Sometimes..it happens without us realising..and all that prior abuse doesn't hurt quite as much as being told that's what you are. Even at almost 7 years in a healthy relationship, there are things I can't let go of..so you're not alone 💗🤍💗 *takes your hand, placing my other hand on top with a smile* I'm sure you're doing so much better now..and even if you aren't, it's okay ♡ that time will come. With a little help, you'll only hold onto the lessons and not the thoughts and behaviours, and will grow to be someone even more strong and beautiful! We're not like them. We never will be. And if it happens without you realising, always have even just one person you trust to always tell you the truth ♡. You've got this 🥺💗🤍💗🫂🫂🫂
@@mama_quartz Same with me. I escaped my abuser nearly 9 years ago... yet there are times I snap. Certain music triggers awful memories. It's not a picnic. I get told I'm stronger by others, but there are days when I crumble. I often watch certain videos or play certain music to ground myself again.
@@KittyKatt_Luna80s I'm about the same. I'm going through a crumble now in fact. I have music triggers too, plus movie, show and videogame triggers. It's awful that we'll likely be stuck with the damage forever, but it's nice to find others who can relate to what you've gone through and help you feel like you're not alone 💗🤍💗 remember, it's okay to be vulnerable, to crumble and feel depressed..you just need to show yourself some kindness and allow yourself as much rest as you need, no matter what others say or think. I'm trying to rest, but the source of my stress is next door so I can't escape atm. Well, next door on both sides and above me -_- but I'm trying to watch cartoons I love, talk about nerdy stuff with my boyfriend and feed our friendly garden squirrel, Tufty, peanuts ☺️💗🤍💗 let yourself find joy in the smaller things, like hazy sunlight through closed curtains, a candlelit bath, the sound of singing birds, crunchy autumn leaves, the smell of fresh coffee and the aroma of cake being baked! Trust me, embracing the littler pleasures will help, and also help you appreciate your own company without feeling lonely ^-^ anyway, I've rambled for far too long. I truly hope you feel better, and can smile and laugh from the heart 💗🤍💗 take care of yourself 🌈🫂🫂🫂🌈 ~ Rose xxx
@@mama_quartz Thank you, Rose. Another thing I find calms me is the smell of lavender. I have a spray for my pillow. Smell can ground me as well - the ex's house smelled of damp, so that's a trigger for rotten memories. Similar tactics there.
i've returned to this short film multiple times, it's genuinely a masterpiece, the way it can get everything across without fail with a brutal cut to it, it doesn't hold back a single punch, genuinely one of the best i've seen, period.
4:20 I love how instead of her pupil becoming small and a stripe like they usually do in animations and other medias, her's became big and round, as when a cat is preparing to attack. More realistic in this aspect.
I think they do it because its easier to notice and gives a scarier vibe? which in that case is honestly just bs because we have it in our brains (other animals too) to be aprehensive/scared of dilated pupils since it's a sign of adrenaline, and most predatory animals will have a rush of adrenaline before attacking; In the cats case their pupils dilate before they pounce because of how they're shaped, the slit pupils make it easier for the cat to foccus on a single object but in order to make a successful attack they dilate their pupils to let in more light and take in their surroundings to make an escape/chase route. It really bugs me when they make the pupils shrink during a moment of shock, fear or anger because it doesn't make any sense, but since they've been doing it for so long we always expect to see it in films/art.
My favorite part had to be when she looked at herself in the mirror and saw the eyes of the killer. It was so relatable in a way that sometimes when you’re fueled with rage you scare yourself by realizing you look exactly like the person who hurt you the most and it’s the worst. I love how the animators left a few seconds out for that scene for her just to be staring at herself because it’s the slowest thing in the world sometimes.
i love how it doesn't show if she got to the murderer or not, it's just pure, cold, hard despair of a person (or should i say anthropomorphic cat) going through loss of her beloved. it's not mystery solving but instead focuses on feelings. i am so genuinely taken away by this.
@@authority1016 Me too! But my personal theory is that, since she called the cops, they track her location and she may very well end up admitting guilt to the fire (and murder, if the gas station man is dead) and getting arrested. :(((
@@shilohwhiloh9636 anddd more memories of that black and white cat... with that german shepherd, too(i love that cat hes kinda cute) Edit: waitt now i think its a doberman xd sorry
Wow! I love how she ends up doing just what the original robber did in pursuit of her own vengeance -- breaking in somewhere to steal, not intending to hurt anyone but noy willing to give up when they fight back, finally killing someone in her obsessed drive towards her goal and realizing she's now inflicted her trauma on someone else
One thing I noticed is that when she’s calling the police, she makes herself go back to the burning gas station and takes in what she did instead of running away. This animation is amazing and the art is so good, there’s no need for dialogue because the visuals show what’s happening perfectly. And the Implication that the robber stabbed her husband is so sad
I loved how the husband isn't just a plot device. Usually when a character dies as backstory they never get developed, but here can really get a sense of who he was and how deeply he loved his wife. Congratulations to the team on making such an amazing short!
@Madman from the DOOMED PLANET I agree with you, man, husband wasnt really developed, as it was just properly shown and explained plot device, the real developing there could be the information why some dog murdered him, is there anything husband did in the past, but the main idea of shortfilm is that vengeance is gonna born one more murderer(or bad person etc.), so there is not that much of space to develope her husband, so yeah
@@ridosaputra5273 And that makes it all the more heartbreaking. If those flashbacks were left out of the film, I doubt the climax would've been nearly as strong.
A lot of people are mentioning how they love a lot of the details, but I can't express how much I love the detail with the color choice. The present uses darker shades, and more blue hues, while everything in the past uses lighter shades and more soft orange hues, which have different connotations that are normally underutilized. She sees the past so warmly and fondly, while the present is much colder and moodier, and the visuals make that explicitly clear just in color choice alone.
In the opening shot you can see the wife sitting outside the house and everything its colored with cold “dramatic” colors but the light from inside the house is the same color as the memories. It’s like the warm colors haven’t yet faded from the house they shared. But I might just be overanalyzing
This animation manages to strongly convey one of the worst pains anyone can feel in such a compelling, convincing manner. I definitely teared up when she broke down and realized what she had done, and what she planned to do wasn't going to change the fact that he was gone. She became what she was so desperately seeking to destroy, and that's heartbreaking.
this animation is just beautifully sad, and i absolutely agree. it amazingly portrays the feeling of loss and the 5 stages of grief. while it absolutely feels depressing, it shows a sad truth- life isn't all rainbows. bad endings are bound to happen. miracles are not something on demand, you have to face life as it is. the fact that she stopped herself and realised what she did and gave herself up (presumably) is so well done.
The gas couldn't take her to anywhere, she already lost her way... This is very heart-breaking yet touching story, I can't help but rewatch it several times to know each details.This is really amazing, the color design and character expression are flawlessly done, definitely one of the best animation in this year
This is one of the best shorts I have seen in a long time, animated or otherwise. It perfectly portrayed her pain. And to see her nearly slip into becoming a monster only to pull herself back from the brink was brilliantly presented.
@The_Paper_Star_Wizard_Hat killers of innocents are monsters. killers of monsters are heroes if they stop someone else from being harmed by that monster
I love the symbolism here with the metaphor between a car being fueled by gas and a person being fueled by revenge I also love how her pupils dilate after killing him like how a cat's pupils dilate when hunting prey.
her pupils dilated not just after she killed him, but specifically when she sees the can of gas Unless you're talking about how her pupils were dilated whilst running at him, before the explosion?
…holy crap. This is insane. The whole atmosphere- the expressions, the animation, the backgrounds, everything- it’s stunning. Just wait until this blows up.
Be warned, giant essay incoming! I genuinely had to watch this one about ten times, over the course of a couple of days, just to merely comprehend everything in this short. I'm not usually one to cry over a fictional character and whatever may have happened to them, but I kid you not, by the end, I had to really work hard to prevent myself from bawling my eyes out. And not just the first time around, Every. Single. Time. The message this short film conveys is so complex and multi-layered that it is difficult for me to express the way I feel about it in words. I absolutely adore the way that just by body language and facial expressions, alongside some brilliant colour and design choices, can let us fully understand what any given character is feeling or thinking. A lot of the big corporations and movie makers out there seem to think that the viewers are incapable of understand what is happening in a scene without being explicitly told through dialogue or by a narrator,and the fact that KilledtheCat Productions doesn't is nothing short of magical and I seriously couldnt put into words the way it makes me feel. Pride? Perhaps just a subtle thanks? Putting my incapability to translate more complex emotions into any kind of legible or recognisable written language asside, I would like to atleast attempt to word out my love for the incredible storytelling. The fact that we can follow Cathy through somewhat of an emotional roller-coaster, feel the way she feels and piece a heart-breaking, soul-crushing story together about how when you are fuelled by rage, vengeance and hatred, you subconsciously or accidentally end up becoming the very monster you swore to rid the world of is awesome. The so-called 'realisation scene' is possible my favourite, as we can tell through Cathy's body and facial language that she has realised that what she has done has turned her into her own enemy and that nothing that she could have done could have brought back her husband. The biggest part of that scene, though, atleast for me, is that even though it is too late to redeem herself and she has a tank full of gas, she makes a final decision to get out of her car and stay at the gas station, waiting for the police to come, instead of fleeing, deciding to own up and take responsibility for for her actions, making the difference between her and her husband's murderer. It expresses that a longing and obsession of getting revenge can blind us from seeing the true extent of our actions. The best example of this is when Cathy attacks the shopkeeper. After the explosion, she is still blinded by revenge enough not to notice or even just ignore the man's burned corpse, instead, only focusing on the jerry can of gas and getting it to her car. And all without a single word. Another thing that brings this animated film from a 10/10 to an 11/10 is the subtle details. Something as simple and nearly thoughtless as the choice of colours in each scene is just one of many details that expresses emotion. The fact that all of Cathy's flashbacks to memories with her husband are washed with a warm colour scheme can imply her emotions and feelings toward them. Happy, nostalgic and overall positive feelings. The present is washed with a blue, cold tone that can suggest anything but happyness and positivity. Another detail to take notice of is the fact that in the flashbacks, Cathy is seen with shiny twinkles in her eyes. In the present, she has no such twinkle, until she rediscoveres who she really is. Another thing I, and many others have noticed is that in every scene that contains Cathy's husband, he is seen with a twinkle in his eyes aswell, we can even see that in the part where he dies, we see the twinkle leave his eyes, as if to say that there is no longer a soul behind them. Is this, perhaps, a subtle nod toward the fact that Cathy has no light in her eyes when she performs such a soulless act, in robbing the gas station? I also love how all of the flashbacks are in third person until Cathy realises what she's done and all the grief hits her. Then it is first person. No clue what kind of meaning could be behind this one but I love it all the same. I would like to appreciate the visual and sound design too. I want to get the fact that the lighting is just phenomenal out of the way first. I feel incredibly stupid for repeating myself, but it's true. The art design is so good that no dialogue is needed. We all know what meaning facial and body expressions can hold and because of the quality of the animation and it's broad style, we need no words to understand it perfectly. Simply amazing. For the sound design, I want to say the music itself, as said by others, is nothing special on its own, but the way that the creators have used it makes it so much better. The way that the music stops when Cathy sees her own eyes staring back at her in the police sketch and all we can hear in the crinkling of the map, the blood and tears dripping from her hands and the humming of the car engine is brilliant and is just the cherry on top for this entire animation. Finally, I want to thank everyone behind KilledtheCat Productions for making such an incredible masterpiece, and you, the reader. If you made it all the way to the end of my rambling, you're a legend. There was so much more I wanted to add, but I really can't put any of it into words and it would make this comment even longer, which I'm sure nobody would appreciate very much. TLDR: I nearly bawlled my eyes because of a 9 minute cartoon. PS: I really hope that we get some kind of continuation of the story, I am dying to know more about the Fuelled universe. I particularly like the idea of Marvel's "What If" thing, but for Fuelled. What would have happened if Cathy died instead of her husband? What would have heppened if Cathy didn't see her eyes in the rear view mirror? What would have happened if the robbery at her house never happened at all? All things I would love to know!
What gets me the most is that at 5:20 she sees the dead or dying gas station worker and yet it doesn’t even register to her because she is so obsessed with getting the fuel for her car. Genuinely chilling when I first noticed.
A detail lots of people have missed is that at 1:01 it’s actually written that it was at first a *robbery that escalated to a murder* that happened in her house. This increase the impact when you realize she also tried to steal fuel and killed someone in the process. She truly turned like her own monster.
And? She stole because she was too stupid to fill her tank and keep money in her wallet. What’s worse she had a cell phone the whole time. She could have called for a tow truck, someone to fill her tank, a taxi literally anything else and this dumb cat decides crime is the best option
Every single time I watch this I start crying. Just something about how good life can be, and how no matter how much you love someone. Horrible things could happen... life is just... like that....
The expression she makes right before the pig dropped the cigarette is haunting. It's the type of haunting when you lose someone so dear to your heart and wanting vengeance, to the point it's not justice anymore. This will go down as one of my favorite short films, hands down the storytelling and animation are perfectly done. I'm glad this film is getting the praise it deserves.
@@Robotic_Individual that's what they want you to think, but one day you might also be making an animation, and you might think "hey what if i make characters animals like in that animation about a weird cat i saw" and this is how it controls your life through your subconscious do you understand
YOO THAT MOMENT WITH HER EYES REFLECTING IN THE MIRROR AND REPLACING THE EYES OF THE MURDERER omg :00 that was startling but so effective at making me realize the extent she's gone for vengeance, i loved it :')
i get it, but dont understand it. the murderer wronged her and her husband for no reason other then money or pleasure. she didnt mean to wrong the pig. she isnt the dog, yet i can understand why she thinks she is.
My dad died and when he did, i couldn’t comprehend it, it didn’t make sense, i knew his health was bad and đi knew it was going to happen but the only thing that really stuck is he would get better one day. And after that i was just angry on how unfair it was, i needed him, i really did and i loved him so much i couldn’t blame him. I just knew something hurt him, he couldn’t have done this to himself, i had dreams of him secretly hiding our hiding from something, it’s been a while now. He feels like a stranger. Miss you dad. Always have.
I love the eyes of all of the characters in this, especially of the main character. The way her eyes twinkle in the flashbacks, how they reflect the fire when she wakes up, how they dilate when she attacked the shopkeep with the broken bottle or when she found the gas can when she woke from the explosion, they shimmer and glisten when she cries and you can tell she can't see the phone's keypad through her tears because they appear murky, it's so good! Plus the animation for any liquid is just mesmerizing, be it petrol, blood, or tears! I forgot to mention sound design, especially in the final scenes. Papers rustling, water/blood dripping, cool and sharp winds on a winter's night, the quiet yet ever-present hum of the car's engine, the crackling of fire off in the distance... Putting the music on hold and surrounding the audience in ambiance really grounds the animation.
Eyes are windows into the soul. I'm defiantly gonna take inspiration from this for my own animations... assuming I ever get my lazy @$$ to animate something.
Wait, I just read the description. THIS WAS A COLLEGE PROJECT?! Wow! You guy's must've taken so much time on this! I hope you guys got a really great grade on this, because wow. The details. How after she kills the man her movements are jittery, how much you can tell she wants revenge, the flashbacks, everything. You can tell she regrets what she has done, and at the cost of another person's life, she got the gas.
this was one of the most heart-breaking, emotional and well-thought out stories I've ever seen. nothing has filled me with a feeling of remorseful empathy and depressive dread as the ending of this did.
5:20 you see the body of the gas station employee dead but she doesn't care because she's hyper focused on the fuel for the revenge. Shes lost herself entirely to the point where doesn't see how far she's gone. Where filling up the car is more important than the innocent life she just took. Very well done
At 5:56, the way her eyes line up with the killer's in the wanted poster is such an incredible detail. I had to rewatch to notice since the scene is rather quick, but it truly exemplifies how her mindset has become one and the same with the person she despises enough to attempt to murder. Her shock afterwards too, as if she's not seeing herself but the monster she swore to end the life of. The shot perfectly demonstrates the genuine fear she has for her own reflection, and how changed she has become.
I especially like how she had the wanted photo in front of her rear view mirror. Symbolically and literally, her desire for revenge prevented her from relflecting until the very end.
I had almost the exact same experience. My dad was shot. The guy didn’t get charged. He said it was “self defense” because my dad came out with a gun when the guy came in the yard WITH A LOADED GUN. what do you expect him to do? Be chill about a guy with a gun in our yard. So yeah. This animation really hits deep.
6:26 If you look at it closely, you can see the exact moments when the lights leaves his eyes. There’s so much detail in this short film alone! And then you start crying because you realize how sad it is
That's an accurate detail on the signs of death or dying, I've read that the lens of the eye starts to dry quicker moments right after death, so you actually see the exact moment someone dies through the reflected light on their eyes dimmer, because the dying/decomposition process begins.
The emotional part for me? Her crying. The way she cries just gives off her simply wanting to have her husband back. To be able to be in his embrace but also knowing that'll never happen. It's giving a the same vibes as wanting your mother to hug you one last time when you're old, but knowing she'll most likely never be there anymore.
This is one thing i haven't seen a lot of comments about too. The detail on her sob and their picture together just shows how much she longs for her husband.
The utterly gut-wrenching feeling of hoping and praying that someone comes back but fully knowing that they're gone forever and there's no way they'll ever be back to comfort you again was depicted flawlessly through the crying
It nearly broke me when I heard how realistic she cried. Idk if the voice actor was pretending to cry or was having a true meltdown when recording It also adds to that it’s the first voice we hear.
I love movies that treats people like they usually do,most movies just think we’re dumb and stupid so they have to explain everything,Imagery speaks more than words sometimes and the way it was shown here was both creative and interesting. It takes on a topic that is very human that when people are in stress they may choose violence in order to get what they want,which explains how easily you can become a murderer not just the message but the animation and art style is gorgeous,.
@@CANALIMG No, but it conveys how humans can quickly resort to... Immoral actions whenever things do not go their way. Basically they allow their instincts to reign supreme over their rationality. At least that how I interpreted the animation.
"mwahahahaha now that I caught you let me describe in great detail my eveil plan in case you were not quite sure why I made this machine, telling you this could never go wrong >:D" -pretty much all villains in all stories
To me, the most emotional part was her, looking at what she had done at the end. The way she just kneels down. The gas station owner probably had someone who loved him too. And she inflicted the same pain on his loved one. I rewatched it and one awesome detail was that there's a no smoking sign, right above his head as he's looking at her. At first I thought he kind of caused this on himself but she literally attacks him with a sharp object.
@@oy_oy_ iirc, a no smoking sign has a 25-50 ft proxmity. And because it's a gas station, I dont thing he was supposed to be smoking within 25 feet of the pumps. It's too dangerous.
I know that a lot of people feel sad at the climax when she bursts into tears, but as someone who regularly bottles up their emotions, that part was incredibly well done and amazing to watch. You can feel the catharsis, the weeks or maybe even months of grief pushed down behind blind rage, all coming back and hitting her at once. She is just now confronting the fact that he is gone, and there's nothing she can do to bring him back.
I love how in the end, even though she's got a full tank of gas, she doesn't flee the scene. No one would've known it was her, she was in a rural forest. The only surveillance cameras nearby were likely in the gas station, which was blown up, not to mention the destroyed evidence. This shows how she made a true difference from the killer, who may have been in a similar situation, creating an endless loop of hateful revenge. By accepting what has already happened, and taking responsibility for her actions, she ended the loop all right then and there. This shows how owning up to your mistakes may be hard, but well worth it. Better than to lie, cheat, steal, and run your whole entire life to cover up your past wrongs. There's a real lesson here to learn.⭐
@@Artemka-s8w True my friend, but to admit one's wrong the first thing is the right thing to do, no matter what other people may do. What I'm saying is if she goes through with that call it would be most honorable because it's so hard.
@@Artemka-s8w мм, в короткометражках свой шарм. Можно крутить что хочешь и как хочешь. В полный метр вкладывается куча человекотруда и прочего, поэтому от многих идей отказываются.
Yeah shes a good person for that but shes just gonna end up in prison for the rest of her life if not most and basically her entire life ruined. She will never find happiness after that
I'm always suprised on how talented an animator or a group of animators, and story writers and everyone has to be to make this 9 minute animation feel like an hour
@@midnightbat344 probably a whole year or even more than one year, since it's so good in literally all the aspects (sound design, storytelling, animation, colours, character design, etc).
@@justadragonnamemarcus1751 _Those things felt as decades to make so Disney copied most of their animations to release newer films faster. If they already had a walking animation they would just copy that to save tons of time. There's a person that talks about all the stuff that Disney did to save time on their animated films by copying somewhere on TH-cam._
Help, I cant stop watching this - This is so cute but sad at the same time. The part that got me the most was when she started crying because her husband was gone and she'd never see him in life again with her. As if she lost a part of her heart that was with her which was him. It's very sad but the flashbacks are so cute
This is incredible! It’s such a simple story but there’s so much emotion conveyed through the animation. Not to mention the amount of work put into the background art, effects, and sound design. It’s just WOW Also I really love the Easter egg of all the production members having little cameos in the film! I didn’t expect that but it was such a good surprise
Killedthecat productions is the studio name, and judging by this being the one video on their channel I can imagine they are going places. I hope so, this video is phenomenal in every sense of the word.
For anyone curious about where the cameos were: 0:00 - Michelle, Catherine, Emily 1:43 - Josh, Daniel, Eido, Aroona, Fawn 3:20 - Georgia, Jisoo, Starlyn, Subin If you go on their Instagram account you can see their respective animals!
This is a short film that I need to pay for. I feel cheated, not because it was bad, but the fact that I was slapped in the face by amazing visuals, terrific pacing and heartfelt emotions in just under 10 minutes. I-- I don't think I deserve to watch this for free.
Not sure if this was a minor detail or not but I love how the protagonist sets the murderer's photo in front of the mirror, like that's her motive to get revenge on him and she can't look back. ...And eventually tearing it up after she realized she became the very thing she went out to destroy, looking back and fixing something that she was guilty for. Something the murderer didn't do humanely.
Like dude mf minos prime you mf get out of the flesh prison first thing you mf ass do is kill your freer for revenge, then proceed to go kill Gabriel still for revenge mf shit yo mouth get railcoin mf ass
I can admit, I’m disappointed in myself for not having seen this nearly a year ago. This is such a great animated short. To think that a bunch of college students have a much better capability of creating an animated story than most, big show producers and such. This is just quite amazing.
This has to be the best short film I have ever seen. The lighting, animation, music, etc is the best part pare that with the tragic story of grief ptsd and revenge you get the saddest but best short film I have ever seen. 10/10 stars.
I could write an essay about why this is a genuine masterpiece. Words cannot fully express how impressed and in love with this work of art I am. Everything about it is perfect, and because I can’t find a way to email the creators, and I’ll do my best to express why I believe that in this comment. Firstly, calling the visuals stunning would be doing them a disservice. They are breathtaking. The lighting is fantastic. The chilling moonlight, the warm overlay of the memories, and the smoldering glow of the flames are all perfectly used and visualized. I adore the detail that was put into the protagonist’s eyes. I love how they reflect her heart; soft and sunny when she’s herself, burning and transfixed when she’s become consumed by the desperation to complete her quest for vengeance. I love how the blood, her blood, looks…real. Everything else, even the other liquids, in this film are cartoonish. But, the blood is different, the way it looks and moves feels creepily real. Breathtaking. But, the art isn’t the only thing about this film that makes is a masterpiece. The story is fantastic. The concept of vengeance for a loved one isn’t unique, but the way this film makes it feel otherwise is a testament to the skill of the writers. I love how we are shown fragments of memories involving our protagonist and her husband, and I love how we are told it somewhat chronologically. We get to see them meet, their fondness grow, and their happy marriage. The desperation and drive the protagonist shows in her quest is scarily real. It’s both frightening and heartbreaking to watch her become the very monster she wishes to destroy; a cruel, ironic, twist of fate. A tale of good intention led astray. The audio is genuinely impeccable. The music and sounds aren’t anything special on their own, but the way they are used in the film gives them so much impact and weight. The crackling flames complimented by the dark synthesizer. The melancholic tune that floats in the air as the protagonist reaches for the bottle. However, where the sound direction goes from amazing to fucking outstanding is where there is little to no audio. Proving that less is more, the scene where our desperate housewife attacks the gas station owner doesn’t have dramatic music, heavy breathing, or screams. Just the rapid steps of the protagonist’s feet as she charges silently, murderous intent burning in her eyes. Whether the lack of dialogue was out if necessity or a stylistic choice, I think it worked to the film’s advantage. We don’t need a narrator or the protagonist to tell us she’s angry, sad, and desperate. We can see it in the stress lines on her face, in her vulnerable-yet-determined eyes, in her defensive, glaring posture. She steals and even kills out of desperation. We don’t need a narrator to tell us that, the film just shows us. Finally, I want to call attention to one scene. The sobbing scene. That scene contains, without exaggeration, the most raw emotions I’ve ever seen in an animated film. Her tears were absolutely heartbreaking, and the fact that her crying was the thing to break the dialogueless silence of the film gave it so much more weight. I genuinely cried. I cried with her. That scene broke my heart. And, I love it. Anyways, that’s the end of my love letter. This film ripped my heart in half and I love every second of it. I have recommended it to all of my friends, and I hope to see more of your work in the future!
5:27 The way her pupils slowly dilate when she sees the gas. She is so fixated, so hyper focused and obsessed with her one goal. She doesn’t even care about the corpse.
I think in a way the animation even pulls you into Cathy's perspective even more by having the camera essentially ignore the corpse as well, I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out.
God I legitimately cried when she did. The raw emotion she felt then and there, how genuinely she was crying and just clearly needed comfort just hit me in the heart. This is an absolute master piece in both visuals and story telling. I only wish we could know why that dog murdered her husband, but I understand it's not the point of the video heh. Girl really just needs a good hug and love from others around her, poor little thing. Side comment; I love the artstyle, it's manages to work for a soft look as well as a grim, dark one. Amazingly done.
It's actually explained in the scene with the newspapers and maps on the car seat, it reads "Robbery leads to one death," implying the murderer was nothing more than a lowly crook to begin with, that he killed only so he could take what wasn't his to begin with. Really ties the whole thing back to the unfairness of life, and how a single person's actions can ruin another's life, even a crime as small as stealing from someones house... or stealing a can of gas.
@@MeloniestNeon Her robbery also lead to one death, but we can see her motives. The dog and her eyes are the same, so wouldn't it be okay to imagine that there's more nuance behind the dog's backstory than just being a lowly crook? Maybe the dog had a family to feed and a ton of debt, you never really know, huh?
I know I may be late to the party, but this animation was so beautifully written and executed that I had just had to leave something here for me to look back at. The art style, the amount of emotion in the pictures, it can really bring tears to your eyes. The fact that this was meant to be a school project too makes it all the more incredible
I love how smoothly it transitions from the present to the past and back again. The protagonist is unable to let go of what was taken from her, to the point where it interferes with her life now, and I think it's a neat way of showing that.
I love how in 5:22, you can see a glimpse of the gas dude but the camera pans to the gas as if the wife completely disregarded what she just did because she’s focused on getting the fuel to continue her revenge
Such a small yet wonderfully executed detail indeed, didn't even notice it on my first viewing. I am becoming more and more amazed on how much ''simply college students'' can achieve with enough creativity, willpower and determination.
Not sure if this was intentional, but another small detail I noticed is that the gas station is called Bacon Gas and the profile of the roof above the pumps looks like a bacon strip after the explosion (5:10).
@@jampersand0 Oh, wow. I just noticed. Also, the fact that the owner is smoking right below the ''NO SMOKING'' sign *2:47**.* If a lifetime of watching movies has taught me something, it's that cigarettes and gas stations never mix well.
Man, the scene where she breaks down is so powerful. I’m not a spiritual person, but the scene makes me wonder if her husband is there watching her. It must be so painful for him to see his wife like this but be unable to do anything to help.
Not many people are pointing this out so I just wanted to mention that in the first flashback of the day her husband got murdered the focus is entirely on the killer and her husband's body is barely in her periphery while the scene is painted harsh reds, but after she sees what she has become and we're shown the same moment again the killer isn't even on screen, the focus is entirely placed on her husband and it's lit by a soft pink. Just an example of amazing cinematography.
As a longtime narrative artist, filmmaker, concept artist, story artist, etc....every single aspect of this short was crafted to perfection. The symbolism of the fire on one side and the dark blue forest on the other, and she in her red car in between, reaching that moment of limbo where she could easily become a monster if she made one more small decision - and then pulling herself back and finally processing some of her grief in a very acute, self aware way. Her environment, the moment in the short; everything was made in this story to emphasize the point at which the main character finds herself. The car running out of gas, stuck in the middle of nowhere, etc. Everything is done as support for her emotional arc, but it's not a passive arc, which is THE BEST. Every decision she makes actually affects the world, rather than the character being blown every which way by random circumstances (which is THE WORST). And the moments of her memories were, at first, of her husband assisting her: assisting her to climb down, catching her falling, etc., giving you the impression he took care of her and that she was not, perhaps, very self sufficient. And in the present we are given a very different form of her: strong willed, unafraid, wildly motivated, unhealthily so; she is propped up by her rage and she is probably the most "capable" she has ever been in her life - but finally somehow finds a balance emotionally. Because processing grief of that magnitude takes a great deal of self-awareness, strength, and self-sufficiency; perhaps, in finding her strength, she can appreciate her partner even more. What a blessing, in a world of noise and mediocre filmmaking by huge studios, this group of students has given us!
4:15 this is definitely my favourite part of the whole short film. The way the music cuts out as we see the mc sprinting at the station employee, with the whole world warped in a shot so brief we can only focus on the mc's eyes as they approach. From the glass shattering, the the pitter patter of her feet, to the build up of the cigarette falling and lighting the gasoline, the audio design for everything was nothing short of spectacular!!
Just like an empty space in a busy artwork is extremely meaningful, silence is as well. If you're used to the stimulation of a sense, you really notice once it's gone. Loss of visual makes the mind focus more on sound, loss of sound make the mind focus more on visual
@@jos8009 oops yeah forgot to tell him. It was just concept art, they’re not really spoilers. If you didn't notice, on their insta they only posted stuff about the flashbacks so everyone though it was just gonna be a cute little animation. Not nearly as dark, or about revenge as they let on, even tho their name is KilledTheCat and the shorts name is "fuelled", which can be a bit foreshadowing. But, on April fools day they posted the video of her waking up while the gas station burns, but played it off as an April fools joke. So it was a surprise to some to see how dark it was when it was released, I love the way they bamboozled people
Love how this also shows how important breaking the cycle of revenge is. The protagonist killed an innocent bystander in the process of getting revenge, which many fuel (pun unintended) another do to the same, and so on so forth. It's toxic, and while the ending is hopeful it also demonstrates why the cycle is so damaging for not just those involved, but also those at the sidelines.
Well it was technically an accident he got killed, she just almost did it when he dropped the smoke, plus he didn’t really look like a nice guy anyway, but I can’t really blame her, that cat lady lost her husband to a killer and drove her very angry, now she decided to turn herself in and hopefully get some help before things get worse.
@@skyfaller3d417 We don't know what the motives of the dog was. It may have been similarly understandible. It's all about perspective. Also, the pig probably had a family too.
I try to be a pacifist, but when I always hate the message that revenge is bad. I don't understand why because I'm a pacifist and I believe in reform instead of punishment for prisons. But I at the same time I feel in support of vigilante justice.
@@OzCroc Mostly because revenge doesn't really help much for the victim, especially when it comes to the expense of themselves and/or innocent bystanders. There's loads of stories of people being put to jail for hurting, kidnapping, or outright murder for revenge. Same story with an uncle of mine. His 16 year old daughter was raped and beaten by an abusive boyfriend, when he found out, he beat the abusive boyfriend in his apartment so badly he had to call for an ambulance. He died in the hospital days later and my uncle was sentenced to jail for 12 years for involuntary manslaughter. He's left behind 3 children, including a 4 year old son and 9 year old daughter who'll have grow up without their father. I don't particularly condemn vigilante justice but I know it comes with major complications, enough that it has to be treated with a negative light always, healing and moving on has to be a priority and hurting others impedes that.
I must applaud the character designers! The subtle differences with her whiskers and ear being used to portray her mental state in the present vs past is amazing! I also love the subtle details in paper of the "police sketch" showing its wear and how it has been folded many times, eventually leading to it tearing. I only wish I had found this stunning animation sooner!
What i really loved the most, which hasnt been talked about that much, is the moment she first ran out of gas and you just hear her car horn honk over and over. You don't see the motion at all, but you know shes enraged at the situation and is blaring her horn in anger. It was a nice touch to not show her movements, and to instead have a wide shot of her being emotional all by herself in her car
This made me cry, losing someone you knew was the one and getting them ripped away from you is truly tragic. I can’t believe some school students made this, it told the story so clearly and I really hope that there will be more of these beautiful short films in the future.
I love how this really shows what basically trauma is like, in the beginning, the main character is sitting there, completely dumbfounded, then seeing the killer's picture made her immediately want revenge, which basically took over. That whole fight scene, her being so desperate to get what she wanted to avenge her husband's death, until she saw the murderous reflection in the mirror, she realized, "what have I done?" knowing that her husband wouldn't want this. Overall, 10/10 animation, the animators are very very talented !! Definitely made me cry
This, everyone is talking about the animation and the pain but I haven't read a single comment about trauma, I personally have experienced loosing someone (not close to me but It made me deeply sad and it developed in PTSD somehow), this film is a hug to every person that has experienced that, it really shows the pain she feels with her trauma.
A small detail I notice was when she was bleeding and rushed to the car, there were scratches and the car seemed messy. Perhaps this was an indication of how her mental state was getting far beyond from okay. The colouring and toned used for this was a perfect match, loved it!!
I've seen many animations try and fail to use the big-headed, cute character style with a story I'm supposed to take seriously and they usually fall flat on their face. I'm not sure exactly what combination of things you used to evade this, but you did a phenomenal job. The parallel between her and the murderer in the mirror was especially fantastic, those kinds of parallels tend to be a bit samey, but that one was very creatively done imo.
I wish they told us if they're making a sequel or not so the ounce of hope can die or thrive within me... Because this is the only animation to make me emotional and invested in it, in only 9 minutes.
The moment where her eyes replace the murderers is the best because it really shows that she's realized she is becoming or turning out to be just as bad as the monster she was searching for. This is a great animation!
The composition of the shot at 2:29 is flawless. We're made aware that it is protagonist's perspective from the low angle of the shot. The tilt is a subtle hint that her perception is "skewed". Then you have the sign reading 'bacon' right next to his head, alluding to both how she perceives him (nothing more than meat) AND his death in the coming moments.
@@unknownuser6549 yeah that is the name of the gas station... and now go figure why they deliberately chose to name that hog-manned gas station exactly "bacon".
Even though I want there to be a happy ending for the protagonist, I know that’s not what the creators wanted to convey, and I applaud them for it. Great work team!
Like Green Goblin said "The one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail." So it's human nature that we like sad endings a lot of the times because it's more realistic, real life is sad.
@@beyondthefilms6302 I don't think people like sad endings because "it's more realistic" than happy endings, I think it's because it is a counter for specifically "happily forever after" happy ending which is very often used in family movies (which has a very very big market), e.g. almost all classic disney family movies.
@@TheSiprianus well I disagree, I think you prove Green Goblin right tho... you're just scared or feel guilty to admit it. "iTs iS A cOuNtEr" what do you think real life is genius.
@@beyondthefilms6302 You were not satisfied with your previous reply because you feel lost in argument? You should've added a new comment or at least deleted your previous comment instead of just edited it to become much more condescending. I remember your comment like "well I disagree, but I respect your opinion". 'prove green goblin right'. You keep repeating green goblin , looks like someone is too obsessed with a fictional character. Get a life edgy kid, green goblin is not that deep. You are reaching. Just because your personal life is sad, doesn't mean everyone's real life is. Don't get cut by that edge.
@@TheSiprianus There's 2 reasons people like sad endings. 1. IS because they are realistic. And realistic = relatable, and humans love things they can relate to, characters they can feel empathy for. A sad ending sticks with someone because it's never resolved and it never will be, there's no satisfaction and it irks us, which is good. A happy ending is done, there's no reason to ponder it because it's resolved and the story settles there. BECAUSE sad stories stick with you, they are good for leaving a message. Bonus points if the situation is something the veiwer/reader has experienced (for example, running out of fuel), because then it's more relatable, and the character's shoes fit our feet all the better. This film has the obvious message of "Be careful of who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.", or as Obi-Wan would phrase it "Becoming the very thing you swore to destroy." 2. On the contrary, we tend to contrast sad stories with our lives. When we watch happy ending after happy ending, we feel cheated out of our own... But sad stories are the opposite, they can make you feel your life is closer to a happy ending than an unresolved one that irks us. However, if your life is a sad story itself, sad stories are there to tell you that you aren't the only one who's been through trouble. And all of that ties back to relatability. End: The things that can amplify relatability are: common struggles, justified intense emotion, cuteness, realistic emotion, personality and quirks, emotive facial expression, a rich backstory, character development, and a soul. All of which this film has! Common struggles: Losing a loved one, running out of gas. Justified intense emotion: The crying scene, banging her head on the wheel: though many times you'll see the cat housewife with a blank stare, even in the opening right after her love was murdered, this only amplifies her real emotions when they come out Cuteness: It's a cat with mostly circle shape language, literally. Some of the flashbacks are quite cute as well. Realistic emotion: the blank "nothing" emotion she has at the beginning is shock, being in shock.The fit of desperation when she tries to kill the boar, and yet again as she takes the can instead of helping. Which all comes down to her selfish revenge. Which, I'm gonna speak for everyone, the audience already cares enough that they'd want the boar to die if she could get her revenge. This film makes you want her revenge just as much as she does. Personality and quirks: She's clumsy, almost falling off the bus, unbalanced when ice skating, fumbles and spills fuel everywhere. Also has visual quirks, like a fluff at the end of her tail, a piece taken out of her left ear and squiggly whiskers (both are post-murder). Emotive facial expression: she has giant and very circular eyes, which makes emotion easily readable. Even the slightest movement of her brow and cheeks would deform the perfect circle and make it readable. A rich backstory: The flashbacks. Character Development: between flashbacks, as well as the whiskers and nip out of her ear. A soul: All of the above combined I hope you have a deeper understanding of what it means after ThAT lmao
The housewife in end the became the very same thing she sought to destroy. Even though she done one thing differently, which was call for help and/or turned herself in. Hats off to everyone who worked on this project! This is such a stunning piece of artwork and I hope you do more like this down the line!
From my perspective, it isn't her fault that the gas station blew up... It was the dude who threw the cigarette. The only thing she would have been responsible for was attempted theft and assault. What he did however, was what the scientific community call Darwinism.
@@notmyregret He didn't throw the cigarette, he dropped it after she charged at him with a broken bottle, even if the gas station didn't blow up she was fully intending to stab and likely kill him. And after the station did blow up she showed absolutely no concern or remorse for his life until much later. Also she was the reason the ground was covered in fuel in the first place.
This is why I'm always impressed with short films. Even if the film is less than 15 minutes, they can always tell a compelling story and narrative.
And also build more charachter development than entire shows.
It's not despite the short runtime, but precisely because of it that short films tend to be more meaningful than full length movies. It's the limit that makes it shine.
And will STILL tell a better story than The Last of Us 2.
@@RushWheeler ¡NO!
@@RushWheeler It’s been almost 2 years. Get over it 😂
I think that this film captures "grief is just love with nowhere to go" perfectly. Absolutely incredible.
I think vision said it best “what is grief if not love persevering”.
never heard of this saying but i love it
She killed a innocent and burned a gas station, nothing achieved.
@@antspiano1378 What is achieved is not not the point/significance
@@hypixelmaster272 This is not Vision, this is a quote by Jamie Anderson, director and writer of "Doctor Who" novels
The moment where she was dripping with blood and excitement just trying to find this killer for her husband, and looking up to see not the criminal eyes, but her own really just crushed me.
Hmm
Its just like a sucker punch to the belly! Love this animation
ikr. The way it's done is really clever imo.
Fuck off man stop spoiling
Yeah, tbh having big pupils in that moment made her look way more psychotic than if she had small ones. Same goes with every scene after that where she still has large pupils.
5:56 Here. Right here. I love how it lingers. She doesn't even realize that it's her own eyes at first. Then, quickly, you see her realization as she fully breaks down. This short film is probably the best I've seen, if not one of.
i love how it almost takes her a second to process that she isn't looking into the eyes of the police sketch anymore, those are *her* eyes. the pause on that shot shows us so much of what she's feeling. she is so manic that she can't even recognize her own eyes for a moment, she just wants to stare into the eyes of the killer as a sign of triumph and pure revengeful rebellion, but as she does, she realizes how similar they look.
also that her eyes are normally always round and destinctivly different, but now she saw those were exactly the same as the killer''s eye making her realise what her actions as led to
Jesus christ NO ONE CARES like Bro no one finna read this paragraph
@@nujjhjjj1949 ok 👍
@@nujjhjjj1949 u good?
@@anwirlolol i just dont care about his soft opnion
It’s a small detail but I absolutely love how the cat’s whiskers are shown as neat/straight in her flashbacks, but after her husband is killed her whiskers become messy and wavy.
not to mention the wrinkles under her eyes, as well as the eyes being more empty instead of sparkling in the flashbacks
@@umamifan yes she became crazy
One of her ears was torn after, too.
@Hallownest Yeah, so sad:(
Also, nice profile - Hollow Knight's a fun one!
How about you mention the fact that this cat can use his fucking hands like a human hmm? This is fucking furry propaganda right here
just noticed this, but i love how her flashbacks at first are like her being disassociated from her own body. she’s not seeing it exactly how she saw it while it happened, she’s watching as a third person, but then when she realizes the mistakes she had just made, her flashbacks are seen in first person. she’s back in her own body, seeing through her own eyes.
=O good catch
I didn't realize that, that's actually pretty insane.
furry art account spotted, opinion disingenuine (cry about it)
@@SirIsaacNooton i love how you liked your own comment
@@sparrowanon wait what? i can’t even understand what you’re saying 👁👁 and i’m not a furry, i draw cats, feral cats. either way, theres not anything wrong with or about furries.
I love how everyone's talking about how her perspective in the flashbacks switch after she looks into her own eyes instead of the killer's, but nobody is talking about how, in the very last scene of flashbacks, it's from the perspective of her husband. He's looking at her, and you can just begin to see the calm birthplace of a welling, manic grief. It's beautiful.
Real
I adore how we see every memory from a third person perspective but it turns first person after she sees her reflection and realizes what she’s doing.
I feel like it was also her seeking revenge for *two* people who were murdered…:
Her husband, and the happy, untraumatized version of herself
The scene with the eyes in the mirror was really well done.
it actually jumpscared me
And your pfp is very much not fitting the setting
@@enoztheprotogenshadeyboii7074 circa 2011 XD
Agreed
timestamp?
I love how the closeup on the eyes of the sketch was a leadup to them being replaced with her own eyes in the mirror after the act she did, showing how in her pursuit she ended up doing exactly what the person she was hunting did, a robbery turned fatal stabbing leading to a fire.
Holy shit I didn't even realize how similar the cases were thanks for pointing that out
Very True..
History doesn't repeat itself, but is sure as hell does rhyme.
This animation is incredible, but to mention this was created by COLLEGE STUDENTS! The details and everything in this video is truly breathtaking yet heartbreaking. Props to everyone who worked on this!
I absolutely love the parallel that both the house break-in and the gas station explosion can both be described as “robbery leaves leaves one dead” as shown in the newspaper clipping in the beginning. (Her husband, in the house robbery, and the gas station employee/manager in the explosion)
That's a good point!
I also like how when she’s lying injured after the explosion, she blinks and sees her husbands murderer and then sees the employee in the spot when she blinks again. Shows how she thinks he’s just an obstacle in her way to getting revenge on the murderer.
Did she at least get to eat some bacon? It’d be a shame not to eat all that free barbecued pork at the gas station.
@@princesspikachu3915 *oh*
Yeah & the gas station guy was parallelled by both the robber AND the husband.
I like how all the memories are shown in third person perspective; up until the point she sees her eyes and realizes what shes doing. Like she'd been disconnecting herself from reality so she could be brave enough to act with cruelty, and it resulted in tragedy.
Just like the robber who killed her husband.
I feel like it was also her seeking revenge for *two* people who were murdered…:
Her husband, and the happy, innocent, untraumatized version of herself.
I think it’s rather impressive that this whole story was told without words. The first sentence we hear is ‚911 what’s your emergency‘ when she was the cause of that emergency, and not when she actually needed help before when she had the emergency… I love short films
don't forget the distant radio sounds during the start
@@snowytooktheacountbacklets9473 also the song "let me call you sweetheart
"Call an ambulance, but not for me."
Well there was also the sound of the cat (idk her name) crying
@@ldytofficial2763 yeah, but I was focussing solely on the speech here, there of course were many other non speech sounds in that film
Every time I come back to this animation I swear I notice new details. I hope everyone who worked on this is doing well now, this was beyond talent, this was passion
Funny how the algorithm seems to be either repromoting this, or people are just returning
I think the key moment is when she realizes she can't get her love back. Even if she completes the revenge, it's all in vain. Interestingly, this message transcends the original meaning of the animation. All of us who have gone through a loss, be it grief or a breakup, know the emptiness of wanting to go back to a past that no longer exists. Part of the healing process is letting go.
Edit: wow, this blow up! Much love from Brazil ♥
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I agree with you sir or madam
no it's not. this interpretation is really shallow
Que bom lhe ver aqui ludo
Damn you really gotta make me cry today don’t ya
I love how she didn’t even get time to grieve when he died, she immediately sought out revenge and that was all she could think of until she saw her reflection in the mirror and seen she had become the thing she was trying to get revenge on, then the grief hits her.
Yeah bro it is a pretty good short I really like how everything explains itself in the flashbacks
you love that? weirdo smh my head
@@ketaminepoptarts mmmm ur taking it the wrong way. i’m not loving the fact that she’s in pain i’m loving how they wrote her character and the story
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am traumatized
As someone with ptsd, nothing is scarier than seeing similarities between yourself and your abuser. The mirror scene illustrated that really beautifully
I know what you mean..After 3 abusive relationships, I fought tooth and nail to never be like that..to always help others and never allow who I'm friends with or in a relationship with feel like I did. Sometimes..it happens without us realising..and all that prior abuse doesn't hurt quite as much as being told that's what you are. Even at almost 7 years in a healthy relationship, there are things I can't let go of..so you're not alone 💗🤍💗 *takes your hand, placing my other hand on top with a smile* I'm sure you're doing so much better now..and even if you aren't, it's okay ♡ that time will come. With a little help, you'll only hold onto the lessons and not the thoughts and behaviours, and will grow to be someone even more strong and beautiful! We're not like them. We never will be. And if it happens without you realising, always have even just one person you trust to always tell you the truth ♡. You've got this 🥺💗🤍💗🫂🫂🫂
@@mama_quartz Same with me. I escaped my abuser nearly 9 years ago... yet there are times I snap. Certain music triggers awful memories. It's not a picnic. I get told I'm stronger by others, but there are days when I crumble. I often watch certain videos or play certain music to ground myself again.
@@KittyKatt_Luna80s I'm about the same. I'm going through a crumble now in fact. I have music triggers too, plus movie, show and videogame triggers. It's awful that we'll likely be stuck with the damage forever, but it's nice to find others who can relate to what you've gone through and help you feel like you're not alone 💗🤍💗 remember, it's okay to be vulnerable, to crumble and feel depressed..you just need to show yourself some kindness and allow yourself as much rest as you need, no matter what others say or think. I'm trying to rest, but the source of my stress is next door so I can't escape atm. Well, next door on both sides and above me -_- but I'm trying to watch cartoons I love, talk about nerdy stuff with my boyfriend and feed our friendly garden squirrel, Tufty, peanuts ☺️💗🤍💗 let yourself find joy in the smaller things, like hazy sunlight through closed curtains, a candlelit bath, the sound of singing birds, crunchy autumn leaves, the smell of fresh coffee and the aroma of cake being baked! Trust me, embracing the littler pleasures will help, and also help you appreciate your own company without feeling lonely ^-^ anyway, I've rambled for far too long. I truly hope you feel better, and can smile and laugh from the heart 💗🤍💗 take care of yourself 🌈🫂🫂🫂🌈 ~ Rose xxx
@@mama_quartz Thank you, Rose.
Another thing I find calms me is the smell of lavender. I have a spray for my pillow. Smell can ground me as well - the ex's house smelled of damp, so that's a trigger for rotten memories. Similar tactics there.
that sounds terrifying. I'm sorry to hear that and I sincerely wish you well
i've returned to this short film multiple times, it's genuinely a masterpiece, the way it can get everything across without fail with a brutal cut to it, it doesn't hold back a single punch, genuinely one of the best i've seen, period.
It’s not a masterpiece, story too simple … yeah art style good , but that’s all ..
4:20
I love how instead of her pupil becoming small and a stripe like they usually do in animations and other medias, her's became big and round, as when a cat is preparing to attack. More realistic in this aspect.
I think they do it because its easier to notice and gives a scarier vibe? which in that case is honestly just bs because we have it in our brains (other animals too) to be aprehensive/scared of dilated pupils since it's a sign of adrenaline, and most predatory animals will have a rush of adrenaline before attacking;
In the cats case their pupils dilate before they pounce because of how they're shaped, the slit pupils make it easier for the cat to foccus on a single object but in order to make a successful attack they dilate their pupils to let in more light and take in their surroundings to make an escape/chase route.
It really bugs me when they make the pupils shrink during a moment of shock, fear or anger because it doesn't make any sense, but since they've been doing it for so long we always expect to see it in films/art.
@@sakuraice22
Yeah it is better like this in my opinion. And indeed she's more scaring like that Xp
I think this is one of the best scenes in this animations, losing to yhe eyes in the mirror one. This is literallya work of art.
@@anaju3595
Yeah, the animation is really well made.
@Alkalez real
My favorite part had to be when she looked at herself in the mirror and saw the eyes of the killer. It was so relatable in a way that sometimes when you’re fueled with rage you scare yourself by realizing you look exactly like the person who hurt you the most and it’s the worst. I love how the animators left a few seconds out for that scene for her just to be staring at herself because it’s the slowest thing in the world sometimes.
Wait did you murder someone
@@TheRealDandish someone had to die
@@GreatSwarm Yes :)
Oh god no
Jesus the more I watch it the scarier it gets. I swear. It gives me the chills every time.
i love how it doesn't show if she got to the murderer or not, it's just pure, cold, hard despair of a person (or should i say anthropomorphic cat) going through loss of her beloved. it's not mystery solving but instead focuses on feelings. i am so genuinely taken away by this.
I hope they at least show us what happens
@@authority1016 agreed, if there was a part 2 for this animation then i would watch it, right away
@@authority1016 Me too! But my personal theory is that, since she called the cops, they track her location and she may very well end up admitting guilt to the fire (and murder, if the gas station man is dead) and getting arrested. :(((
@@shilohwhiloh9636 anddd more memories of that black and white cat... with that german shepherd, too(i love that cat hes kinda cute)
Edit: waitt now i think its a doberman xd sorry
I loved the dark atmosphere
Wow! I love how she ends up doing just what the original robber did in pursuit of her own vengeance -- breaking in somewhere to steal, not intending to hurt anyone but noy willing to give up when they fight back, finally killing someone in her obsessed drive towards her goal and realizing she's now inflicted her trauma on someone else
One thing I noticed is that when she’s calling the police, she makes herself go back to the burning gas station and takes in what she did instead of running away. This animation is amazing and the art is so good, there’s no need for dialogue because the visuals show what’s happening perfectly. And the Implication that the robber stabbed her husband is so sad
@a commando bro, stop watching mobile ads
@@Ender_Spy I agree
WHY DID THE FIRST COMMENT GET MORE LIKES THAN THE SECOND COMMENT LOL
@@anyawhohatescarrton.334 not anymore.
seriously? how did you notice that small detail?
I loved how the husband isn't just a plot device.
Usually when a character dies as backstory they never get developed, but here can really get a sense of who he was and how deeply he loved his wife.
Congratulations to the team on making such an amazing short!
I'd argue he is a plot device used *properly.*
That's why it was so much more painful to watch ):
@Madman from the DOOMED PLANET I agree with you, man, husband wasnt really developed, as it was just properly shown and explained plot device, the real developing there could be the information why some dog murdered him, is there anything husband did in the past, but the main idea of shortfilm is that vengeance is gonna born one more murderer(or bad person etc.), so there is not that much of space to develope her husband, so yeah
I love the relationship between the protagonis and her husband
Make me smile everytime i watch it
@@ridosaputra5273 And that makes it all the more heartbreaking. If those flashbacks were left out of the film, I doubt the climax would've been nearly as strong.
A lot of people are mentioning how they love a lot of the details, but I can't express how much I love the detail with the color choice. The present uses darker shades, and more blue hues, while everything in the past uses lighter shades and more soft orange hues, which have different connotations that are normally underutilized. She sees the past so warmly and fondly, while the present is much colder and moodier, and the visuals make that explicitly clear just in color choice alone.
I wish I picked up art at a younger age
I love how the older memories have this glow Filter that makes them look like a recording from the 90s or something
In the opening shot you can see the wife sitting outside the house and everything its colored with cold “dramatic” colors but the light from inside the house is the same color as the memories. It’s like the warm colors haven’t yet faded from the house they shared. But I might just be overanalyzing
It's pretty common to have nostalgic memories in movies to have a warmer hue
yes!! i love it when animators use colors to portray stuff like this!!
Bro when the light fades away from her husband before dieing is so emotional😢
This animation manages to strongly convey one of the worst pains anyone can feel in such a compelling, convincing manner. I definitely teared up when she broke down and realized what she had done, and what she planned to do wasn't going to change the fact that he was gone. She became what she was so desperately seeking to destroy, and that's heartbreaking.
I can’t believe you’ve got no reply’s and I agree with this
@@aidendoyle6126 wow i had no idea this comment got so much attention. Thank you!
Your welcome
this animation is just beautifully sad, and i absolutely agree. it amazingly portrays the feeling of loss and the 5 stages of grief. while it absolutely feels depressing, it shows a sad truth- life isn't all rainbows. bad endings are bound to happen. miracles are not something on demand, you have to face life as it is.
the fact that she stopped herself and realised what she did and gave herself up (presumably) is so well done.
The gas couldn't take her to anywhere, she already lost her way...
This is very heart-breaking yet touching story, I can't help but rewatch it several times to know each details.This is really amazing, the color design and character expression are flawlessly done, definitely one of the best animation in this year
bruh i've watched this for like 10 times
@Dempseyration lol
I know 😭
I agree so much
It made me cry so hard
@Dempseyration and here, we continue until someone said "i watch it for 1k time"
my male reproduction organ is burning
This is one of the best shorts I have seen in a long time, animated or otherwise. It perfectly portrayed her pain. And to see her nearly slip into becoming a monster only to pull herself back from the brink was brilliantly presented.
Welcome to the club!
Hey Aren't you that woman who lives in a spooky witch hut in the woods and makes youtube videos 0_0
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@@SundownerMGRR She's the witch of the woods, mate. You should see her treehouse. Kinda want a treehouse now.
Hi Becca!
2 years ago this made me tear up, as if it was like real, and until now it's still made me tear up a bit.
It’s been 2 years since this was made-
Oh wait I forgor
@@YourBoyGyrus ist Alr thanks for changing it
@@YourBoyGyrus I just hate when people say like “I been watching this person for 10 years” even tho they started 2 years ago or something
@@AlisonSan-c4d but it just feels like it's 3 years old, cuz 2021 was like 3 years ago, I might've misunderstood
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. He who fights monsters must learn not to become a monster. This was a amazing short!!!
Having a grudge on the monster while not realising you’re becoming one yourself. And yes, this was amazing😭😉
where did that come from? incredible statement :o
@@wisbrington1559 From Friedrich Nietzsche, just paragraph in a way
Those who kill the monsters are most likely monsters themselves
@The_Paper_Star_Wizard_Hat killers of innocents are monsters. killers of monsters are heroes if they stop someone else from being harmed by that monster
I love the symbolism here with the metaphor between a car being fueled by gas and a person being fueled by revenge I also love how her pupils dilate after killing him like how a cat's pupils dilate when hunting prey.
The details were really good lol
her pupils dilated not just after she killed him, but specifically when she sees the can of gas
Unless you're talking about how her pupils were dilated whilst running at him, before the explosion?
They were also similar to the Doberman’s eyes.
…holy crap. This is insane. The whole atmosphere- the expressions, the animation, the backgrounds, everything- it’s stunning. Just wait until this blows up.
[like the gas station]
@@microglitch9742 xD
@@Code_Ax0 *[laughs]*
Well, it blew up
@@nutmeg1209 Definitely, and I’m not surprised. It’s pretty cool knowing I was one of the earlier people to come here.
Be warned, giant essay incoming!
I genuinely had to watch this one about ten times, over the course of a couple of days, just to merely comprehend everything in this short.
I'm not usually one to cry over a fictional character and whatever may have happened to them, but I kid you not, by the end, I had to really work hard to prevent myself from bawling my eyes out. And not just the first time around,
Every.
Single.
Time.
The message this short film conveys is so complex and multi-layered that it is difficult for me to express the way I feel about it in words.
I absolutely adore the way that just by body language and facial expressions, alongside some brilliant colour and design choices, can let us fully understand what any given character is feeling or thinking.
A lot of the big corporations and movie makers out there seem to think that the viewers are incapable of understand what is happening in a scene without being explicitly told through dialogue or by a narrator,and the fact that KilledtheCat Productions doesn't is nothing short of magical and I seriously couldnt put into words the way it makes me feel.
Pride?
Perhaps just a subtle thanks?
Putting my incapability to translate more complex emotions into any kind of legible or recognisable written language asside, I would like to atleast attempt to word out my love for the incredible storytelling.
The fact that we can follow Cathy through somewhat of an emotional roller-coaster, feel the way she feels and piece a heart-breaking, soul-crushing story together about how when you are fuelled by rage, vengeance and hatred, you subconsciously or accidentally end up becoming the very monster you swore to rid the world of is awesome.
The so-called 'realisation scene' is possible my favourite, as we can tell through Cathy's body and facial language that she has realised that what she has done has turned her into her own enemy and that nothing that she could have done could have brought back her husband. The biggest part of that scene, though, atleast for me, is that even though it is too late to redeem herself and she has a tank full of gas, she makes a final decision to get out of her car and stay at the gas station, waiting for the police to come, instead of fleeing, deciding to own up and take responsibility for for her actions, making the difference between her and her husband's murderer.
It expresses that a longing and obsession of getting revenge can blind us from seeing the true extent of our actions.
The best example of this is when Cathy attacks the shopkeeper. After the explosion, she is still blinded by revenge enough not to notice or even just ignore the man's burned corpse, instead, only focusing on the jerry can of gas and getting it to her car. And all without a single word.
Another thing that brings this animated film from a 10/10 to an 11/10 is the subtle details.
Something as simple and nearly thoughtless as the choice of colours in each scene is just one of many details that expresses emotion. The fact that all of Cathy's flashbacks to memories with her husband are washed with a warm colour scheme can imply her emotions and feelings toward them. Happy, nostalgic and overall positive feelings.
The present is washed with a blue, cold tone that can suggest anything but happyness and positivity.
Another detail to take notice of is the fact that in the flashbacks, Cathy is seen with shiny twinkles in her eyes. In the present, she has no such twinkle, until she rediscoveres who she really is.
Another thing I, and many others have noticed is that in every scene that contains Cathy's husband, he is seen with a twinkle in his eyes aswell, we can even see that in the part where he dies, we see the twinkle leave his eyes, as if to say that there is no longer a soul behind them.
Is this, perhaps, a subtle nod toward the fact that Cathy has no light in her eyes when she performs such a soulless act, in robbing the gas station?
I also love how all of the flashbacks are in third person until Cathy realises what she's done and all the grief hits her. Then it is first person. No clue what kind of meaning could be behind this one but I love it all the same.
I would like to appreciate the visual and sound design too.
I want to get the fact that the lighting is just phenomenal out of the way first.
I feel incredibly stupid for repeating myself, but it's true. The art design is so good that no dialogue is needed. We all know what meaning facial and body expressions can hold and because of the quality of the animation and it's broad style, we need no words to understand it perfectly. Simply amazing.
For the sound design, I want to say the music itself, as said by others, is nothing special on its own, but the way that the creators have used it makes it so much better. The way that the music stops when Cathy sees her own eyes staring back at her in the police sketch and all we can hear in the crinkling of the map, the blood and tears dripping from her hands and the humming of the car engine is brilliant and is just the cherry on top for this entire animation.
Finally, I want to thank everyone behind KilledtheCat Productions for making such an incredible masterpiece, and you, the reader. If you made it all the way to the end of my rambling, you're a legend.
There was so much more I wanted to add, but I really can't put any of it into words and it would make this comment even longer, which I'm sure nobody would appreciate very much.
TLDR: I nearly bawlled my eyes because of a 9 minute cartoon.
PS: I really hope that we get some kind of continuation of the story, I am dying to know more about the Fuelled universe. I particularly like the idea of Marvel's "What If" thing, but for Fuelled.
What would have happened if Cathy died instead of her husband?
What would have heppened if Cathy didn't see her eyes in the rear view mirror?
What would have happened if the robbery at her house never happened at all?
All things I would love to know!
What gets me the most is that at 5:20 she sees the dead or dying gas station worker and yet it doesn’t even register to her because she is so obsessed with getting the fuel for her car. Genuinely chilling when I first noticed.
Wow, I didn't 'the owner' was there, because it only showed him for a split second. I thought he was blown sky high into the forest somewhere.
@@ARandomUser12 but why does this want to make me laugh…
Yes exactly at 5:22!!!
@@roabythecowdamn he’s cooked
BACON!
A detail lots of people have missed is that at 1:01 it’s actually written that it was at first a *robbery that escalated to a murder* that happened in her house. This increase the impact when you realize she also tried to steal fuel and killed someone in the process. She truly turned like her own monster.
Holy shit it didn’t kick in until just now that she basically did the exact same thing. Christ.
noticed.
Noticed
LADS! WE FOUND LORE!!!
And? She stole because she was too stupid to fill her tank and keep money in her wallet. What’s worse she had a cell phone the whole time. She could have called for a tow truck, someone to fill her tank, a taxi literally anything else and this dumb cat decides crime is the best option
Every single time I watch this I start crying. Just something about how good life can be, and how no matter how much you love someone. Horrible things could happen... life is just... like that....
Same
The expression she makes right before the pig dropped the cigarette is haunting. It's the type of haunting when you lose someone so dear to your heart and wanting vengeance, to the point it's not justice anymore.
This will go down as one of my favorite short films, hands down the storytelling and animation are perfectly done. I'm glad this film is getting the praise it deserves.
Its like a cat pouncing in where there eyes go big
Hey! I made fuelled fanart come see if you want!
It doesnt deserve shit its a furry leffist propaganda that makes your kid want to be a furry if they watch it it gets engraved in your subconscious
@@dawidek4267 just because people used animals to replace humans it doesn't mean it automatically turns into furry propaganda
@@Robotic_Individual that's what they want you to think, but one day you might also be making an animation, and you might think "hey what if i make characters animals like in that animation about a weird cat i saw" and this is how it controls your life through your subconscious do you understand
YOO THAT MOMENT WITH HER EYES REFLECTING IN THE MIRROR AND REPLACING THE EYES OF THE MURDERER omg :00 that was startling but so effective at making me realize the extent she's gone for vengeance, i loved it :')
And I'm right here like... "Nah, it was just the pig, forget that and move on"
Nooooooo you think ???
Nightmare eyes
i get it, but dont understand it.
the murderer wronged her and her husband for no reason other then money or pleasure.
she didnt mean to wrong the pig.
she isnt the dog, yet i can understand why she thinks she is.
@@20tigerpaw20 She was literally gonna kill the pig for some oil just before everything burn. Anger made her as bad as the dog.
"You have became the very thing you swore to destroy" taken to a WHOLE new level. Great job man, this was insane.
tooken 💀
@@jaydbd2457 So what? It's a popular meme and they totally crushed it. I think it's fair to let them know that they're animation was really good. 🤡🤡🤓🤓
@@OceanFacts99 "tooken" isn't a word 💀
@@jaydbd2457 OH-
@@jaydbd2457 lmao
My dad died and when he did, i couldn’t comprehend it, it didn’t make sense, i knew his health was bad and đi knew it was going to happen but the only thing that really stuck is he would get better one day. And after that i was just angry on how unfair it was, i needed him, i really did and i loved him so much i couldn’t blame him. I just knew something hurt him, he couldn’t have done this to himself, i had dreams of him secretly hiding our hiding from something, it’s been a while now. He feels like a stranger. Miss you dad. Always have.
I love the eyes of all of the characters in this, especially of the main character. The way her eyes twinkle in the flashbacks, how they reflect the fire when she wakes up, how they dilate when she attacked the shopkeep with the broken bottle or when she found the gas can when she woke from the explosion, they shimmer and glisten when she cries and you can tell she can't see the phone's keypad through her tears because they appear murky, it's so good! Plus the animation for any liquid is just mesmerizing, be it petrol, blood, or tears!
I forgot to mention sound design, especially in the final scenes. Papers rustling, water/blood dripping, cool and sharp winds on a winter's night, the quiet yet ever-present hum of the car's engine, the crackling of fire off in the distance... Putting the music on hold and surrounding the audience in ambiance really grounds the animation.
Eyes are windows into the soul. I'm defiantly gonna take inspiration from this for my own animations... assuming I ever get my lazy @$$ to animate something.
Cringe furry
Wait, I just read the description. THIS WAS A COLLEGE PROJECT?!
Wow! You guy's must've taken so much time on this! I hope you guys got a really great grade on this, because wow.
The details.
How after she kills the man her movements are jittery, how much you can tell she wants revenge, the flashbacks, everything.
You can tell she regrets what she has done, and at the cost of another person's life, she got the gas.
Right? They're awesome
It's crazy, this film is filled to the brim with emotion and it goes so deep. It really is incredible.
"i got the gas... but at what cost"
regularly the cost is like a liver, but now its a life in this animation, i like my odds in that one.
i actually agree
i cried so hard watching this, everything about this animation was so great i love it so much T-T
Yeah the colors and emotion was amazing, I completely agree with you
this animation AHH so sad and good same fime
Wait what are you doing here?
Same…
Ikr??
Poor Cathy... There's no dialogue, but it's saying so much. The animation, the emotions, the sound, it all comes together in this masterpiece!
this was one of the most heart-breaking, emotional and well-thought out stories I've ever seen. nothing has filled me with a feeling of remorseful empathy and depressive dread as the ending of this did.
someone just learned how to use a thesaurus lmfao
@@jeffreyfiggins4573 ????? have you considered that some people can have bigger vocabularies than you do? you sound like a manlet
@@jeffreyfiggins4573 STOOOOOPPPP OMG
@@jeffreyfiggins4573 HAhahah, but fr though this was really good.
does anybody something like this? like not exactly but to this quality.
5:20 you see the body of the gas station employee dead but she doesn't care because she's hyper focused on the fuel for the revenge. Shes lost herself entirely to the point where doesn't see how far she's gone. Where filling up the car is more important than the innocent life she just took. Very well done
Where is the body
Yes, but not very clear
@@DylanDkoh if u pause at 5:22 you see the body before the fuel
If you go on 0.5x speed and pause on 5:22. You see him
you got the point omg
At 5:56, the way her eyes line up with the killer's in the wanted poster is such an incredible detail. I had to rewatch to notice since the scene is rather quick, but it truly exemplifies how her mindset has become one and the same with the person she despises enough to attempt to murder. Her shock afterwards too, as if she's not seeing herself but the monster she swore to end the life of. The shot perfectly demonstrates the genuine fear she has for her own reflection, and how changed she has become.
I noticed it when watching in 2x
I especially like how she had the wanted photo in front of her rear view mirror. Symbolically and literally, her desire for revenge prevented her from relflecting until the very end.
I had almost the exact same experience. My dad was shot. The guy didn’t get charged. He said it was “self defense” because my dad came out with a gun when the guy came in the yard WITH A LOADED GUN. what do you expect him to do? Be chill about a guy with a gun in our yard. So yeah. This animation really hits deep.
@@kaydenbigman oh dude im so sorry. did your dad recover?
@@lotus4688 no. he is unfortunately deceased. I wish the suspect to go to hell.
6:28 This is the first time I have ever cried to an animation
Weird
@@fzxgemar181 это ты странный с🤬🤬а
absolute chills, really loved this sm 😭
Greetings sir fluff :0!
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Yea
Yoo fluff
Yooo fluff
6:26 If you look at it closely, you can see the exact moments when the lights leaves his eyes. There’s so much detail in this short film alone! And then you start crying because you realize how sad it is
And until she cries, there is no light/reflection in her eyes in the present. (Also, with the pig, but that's typical for working retail.)
And in must all the animation she don't have light, but when she looks at her flashbacks she have those lights
yeah
That's an accurate detail on the signs of death or dying, I've read that the lens of the eye starts to dry quicker moments right after death, so you actually see the exact moment someone dies through the reflected light on their eyes dimmer, because the dying/decomposition process begins.
I didn't read the full message so I didn't see the 'you cry cuz it's so sad' but when I skipped to that part, I cried
The emotional part for me? Her crying. The way she cries just gives off her simply wanting to have her husband back. To be able to be in his embrace but also knowing that'll never happen. It's giving a the same vibes as wanting your mother to hug you one last time when you're old, but knowing she'll most likely never be there anymore.
This is one thing i haven't seen a lot of comments about too. The detail on her sob and their picture together just shows how much she longs for her husband.
The utterly gut-wrenching feeling of hoping and praying that someone comes back but fully knowing that they're gone forever and there's no way they'll ever be back to comfort you again was depicted flawlessly through the crying
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It nearly broke me when I heard how realistic she cried. Idk if the voice actor was pretending to cry or was having a true meltdown when recording
It also adds to that it’s the first voice we hear.
I wanted to write a whole essay here, but let me just say that I love every single part of this short animation. This is... just unbelievably amazing
I love movies that treats people like they usually do,most movies just think we’re dumb and stupid so they have to explain everything,Imagery speaks more than words sometimes and the way it was shown here was both creative and interesting. It takes on a topic that is very human that when people are in stress they may choose violence in order to get what they want,which explains how easily you can become a murderer not just the message but the animation and art style is gorgeous,.
I agree completely with what your saying and I see what you mean, I adore how human it feels making it both sad and incredible.
But there aren't people in this movie
@@CANALIMG No, but it conveys how humans can quickly resort to... Immoral actions whenever things do not go their way. Basically they allow their instincts to reign supreme over their rationality. At least that how I interpreted the animation.
"mwahahahaha now that I caught you let me describe in great detail my eveil plan in case you were not quite sure why I made this machine, telling you this could never go wrong >:D" -pretty much all villains in all stories
I don't want to disappoint you, but in this movie, the thought also lies on the surface.
To me, the most emotional part was her, looking at what she had done at the end. The way she just kneels down. The gas station owner probably had someone who loved him too. And she inflicted the same pain on his loved one.
I rewatched it and one awesome detail was that there's a no smoking sign, right above his head as he's looking at her. At first I thought he kind of caused this on himself but she literally attacks him with a sharp object.
I think the sign means no smoking inside the building, what's why he went outside
@@oy_oy_ iirc, a no smoking sign has a 25-50 ft proxmity. And because it's a gas station, I dont thing he was supposed to be smoking within 25 feet of the pumps. It's too dangerous.
@@danitho ye, your right
She didn't even get to attack him honestly, he dropped the cigarette before she could.
@@ItsMinnowSeasonThat doesn't change the fact that she was ready to harm someone to get her way.
I know that a lot of people feel sad at the climax when she bursts into tears, but as someone who regularly bottles up their emotions, that part was incredibly well done and amazing to watch. You can feel the catharsis, the weeks or maybe even months of grief pushed down behind blind rage, all coming back and hitting her at once.
She is just now confronting the fact that he is gone, and there's nothing she can do to bring him back.
yeah it's very well made.
I got yelled at today because I was banging on peoples doors
@@VetteGeeOh Legalize nuclear bombs
@@TheNameIsNobody hey guess what
@@VetteGeeOh What?
主人公の心情がこっちにまでよく伝わってきて感情移入して泣きました…ほんとに素晴らしいアニメだと思います✨✨
this aint no anime
@@Bruhnerd69What he meant was animation. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I love how in the end, even though she's got a full tank of gas, she doesn't flee the scene.
No one would've known it was her, she was in a rural forest. The only surveillance cameras nearby were likely in the gas station, which was blown up, not to mention the destroyed evidence.
This shows how she made a true difference from the killer, who may have been in a similar situation, creating an endless loop of hateful revenge. By accepting what has already happened, and taking responsibility for her actions, she ended the loop all right then and there.
This shows how owning up to your mistakes may be hard, but well worth it. Better than to lie, cheat, steal, and run your whole entire life to cover up your past wrongs.
There's a real lesson here to learn.⭐
@@Artemka-s8w True my friend, but to admit one's wrong the first thing is the right thing to do, no matter what other people may do. What I'm saying is if she goes through with that call it would be most honorable because it's so hard.
No. She has lost everything and killed someone, it is most likely he will kill herself
@@Artemka-s8w я думаю, специально сделали конец открытым, чтобы зритель сам подумал как могла бы закончиться данная история.
@@Artemka-s8w мм, в короткометражках свой шарм. Можно крутить что хочешь и как хочешь. В полный метр вкладывается куча человекотруда и прочего, поэтому от многих идей отказываются.
Yeah shes a good person for that but shes just gonna end up in prison for the rest of her life if not most and basically her entire life ruined. She will never find happiness after that
*She became the very thing she swore to destroy. Gorgeous short.*
Beware when fighting monsters, you do not become a monster for when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back
@@slickt8128 Reminds me of a certain knight from Dark Souls
Hmmm what knight we talking about?@@Alan-ok6kw
I'm always suprised on how talented an animator or a group of animators, and story writers and everyone has to be to make this 9 minute animation feel like an hour
9 min for an animator it feel like month
@@midnightbat344 True it does take really long to make an animation
@@midnightbat344 probably a whole year or even more than one year, since it's so good in literally all the aspects (sound design, storytelling, animation, colours, character design, etc).
Old disney movies be like
The true gold
@@justadragonnamemarcus1751 _Those things felt as decades to make so Disney copied most of their animations to release newer films faster. If they already had a walking animation they would just copy that to save tons of time. There's a person that talks about all the stuff that Disney did to save time on their animated films by copying somewhere on TH-cam._
Help, I cant stop watching this - This is so cute but sad at the same time. The part that got me the most was when she started crying because her husband was gone and she'd never see him in life again with her. As if she lost a part of her heart that was with her which was him. It's very sad but the flashbacks are so cute
This is incredible! It’s such a simple story but there’s so much emotion conveyed through the animation. Not to mention the amount of work put into the background art, effects, and sound design. It’s just WOW
Also I really love the Easter egg of all the production members having little cameos in the film! I didn’t expect that but it was such a good surprise
wait there was little cameos?
It’s really well done!
I'd need a timestamp for that bc I managed to miss that part
Killedthecat productions is the studio name, and judging by this being the one video on their channel I can imagine they are going places. I hope so, this video is phenomenal in every sense of the word.
For anyone curious about where the cameos were:
0:00 - Michelle, Catherine, Emily
1:43 - Josh, Daniel, Eido, Aroona, Fawn
3:20 - Georgia, Jisoo, Starlyn, Subin
If you go on their Instagram account you can see their respective animals!
This is a short film that I need to pay for. I feel cheated, not because it was bad, but the fact that I was slapped in the face by amazing visuals, terrific pacing and heartfelt emotions in just under 10 minutes. I-- I don't think I deserve to watch this for free.
None of us do
It's been a week and I can't get the image of her crying out of my head. Help.
Up until 5:55 I was expecting the classic revenge story. The complete 180 caught me completely off guard.
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Not sure if this was a minor detail or not but I love how the protagonist sets the murderer's photo in front of the mirror, like that's her motive to get revenge on him and she can't look back.
...And eventually tearing it up after she realized she became the very thing she went out to destroy, looking back and fixing something that she was guilty for. Something the murderer didn't do humanely.
I wonder if she'll get told off for blocking her mirrors, too.
Minos prime ultrakill can't really be talking about refusing revenge
Like dude mf minos prime you mf get out of the flesh prison first thing you mf ass do is kill your freer for revenge, then proceed to go kill Gabriel still for revenge mf shit yo mouth get railcoin mf ass
She could have completed her revenge and then turn herself in
Also, how is she fixing anything? The guy is already dead, there's nothing fixable here
My teacher showed the entire class this today.
I instantly got flashbacks for when I first watched this.
Bravo.
I can admit, I’m disappointed in myself for not having seen this nearly a year ago. This is such a great animated short. To think that a bunch of college students have a much better capability of creating an animated story than most, big show producers and such. This is just quite amazing.
This has to be the best short film I have ever seen. The lighting, animation, music, etc is the best part pare that with the tragic story of grief ptsd and revenge you get the saddest but best short film I have ever seen. 10/10 stars.
You got the right point. Also watching this short film gives us all hope that film industry isn't falling down to bad grade like Hollywood (modern).
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Well said (typed) lol
Exactly! Idk why I’ve been skipping it out all this time!
I could write an essay about why this is a genuine masterpiece. Words cannot fully express how impressed and in love with this work of art I am. Everything about it is perfect, and because I can’t find a way to email the creators, and I’ll do my best to express why I believe that in this comment.
Firstly, calling the visuals stunning would be doing them a disservice. They are breathtaking. The lighting is fantastic. The chilling moonlight, the warm overlay of the memories, and the smoldering glow of the flames are all perfectly used and visualized. I adore the detail that was put into the protagonist’s eyes. I love how they reflect her heart; soft and sunny when she’s herself, burning and transfixed when she’s become consumed by the desperation to complete her quest for vengeance. I love how the blood, her blood, looks…real. Everything else, even the other liquids, in this film are cartoonish. But, the blood is different, the way it looks and moves feels creepily real. Breathtaking.
But, the art isn’t the only thing about this film that makes is a masterpiece. The story is fantastic. The concept of vengeance for a loved one isn’t unique, but the way this film makes it feel otherwise is a testament to the skill of the writers. I love how we are shown fragments of memories involving our protagonist and her husband, and I love how we are told it somewhat chronologically. We get to see them meet, their fondness grow, and their happy marriage. The desperation and drive the protagonist shows in her quest is scarily real. It’s both frightening and heartbreaking to watch her become the very monster she wishes to destroy; a cruel, ironic, twist of fate. A tale of good intention led astray.
The audio is genuinely impeccable. The music and sounds aren’t anything special on their own, but the way they are used in the film gives them so much impact and weight. The crackling flames complimented by the dark synthesizer. The melancholic tune that floats in the air as the protagonist reaches for the bottle. However, where the sound direction goes from amazing to fucking outstanding is where there is little to no audio. Proving that less is more, the scene where our desperate housewife attacks the gas station owner doesn’t have dramatic music, heavy breathing, or screams. Just the rapid steps of the protagonist’s feet as she charges silently, murderous intent burning in her eyes. Whether the lack of dialogue was out if necessity or a stylistic choice, I think it worked to the film’s advantage. We don’t need a narrator or the protagonist to tell us she’s angry, sad, and desperate. We can see it in the stress lines on her face, in her vulnerable-yet-determined eyes, in her defensive, glaring posture. She steals and even kills out of desperation. We don’t need a narrator to tell us that, the film just shows us.
Finally, I want to call attention to one scene. The sobbing scene. That scene contains, without exaggeration, the most raw emotions I’ve ever seen in an animated film. Her tears were absolutely heartbreaking, and the fact that her crying was the thing to break the dialogueless silence of the film gave it so much more weight. I genuinely cried. I cried with her. That scene broke my heart. And, I love it.
Anyways, that’s the end of my love letter. This film ripped my heart in half and I love every second of it. I have recommended it to all of my friends, and I hope to see more of your work in the future!
He fr wrote an essay I'm dead 💀
A+
I'm.. I'm balling
That's an A++++
You said you could and you did
A+ isnt enough bruh
5:27 The way her pupils slowly dilate when she sees the gas. She is so fixated, so hyper focused and obsessed with her one goal. She doesn’t even care about the corpse.
Common sense of cats when excited
I think in a way the animation even pulls you into Cathy's perspective even more by having the camera essentially ignore the corpse as well, I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out.
i didnt see one
@@DOMythStart at 5:22 and play it at 0.25x speed
I was traumatized. Thanks,@@tiagodecastro2929 ! (that was a joke I am not emotionally scarred)
there aren't many films that can make me cry like this. however this film hit the nail on the head. spectacular.
DUUUUDE, the insane perspective when she ran towards the viewer (aka, the gas station employee) was so SO GOOOOD i am absolutely obsessed with it omg
YEAAAH that was sick, and crazy LOVED that part
4:22 timestamp
definitely some of the best animation i'd ever seen.
I agree the view when she ran towards the gas st employee with the glass bottle it was so cool animation isn't just for kids and this proves it
i slowed it down and watched it like 10 times...just...wow...
Gosh that was phenomenal. The story, animation, and entire production of this drew me right in, amazing job to everyone who worked on this!! 💚
Yeah
Hey! I made fuelled fanart come see if you want!
@@kawi3013, I want to see it.
Blah blah blah it's the point of the film
@@endynation4968 what is even your point?
God I legitimately cried when she did. The raw emotion she felt then and there, how genuinely she was crying and just clearly needed comfort just hit me in the heart.
This is an absolute master piece in both visuals and story telling. I only wish we could know why that dog murdered her husband, but I understand it's not the point of the video heh.
Girl really just needs a good hug and love from others around her, poor little thing.
Side comment; I love the artstyle, it's manages to work for a soft look as well as a grim, dark one. Amazingly done.
It's actually explained in the scene with the newspapers and maps on the car seat, it reads "Robbery leads to one death," implying the murderer was nothing more than a lowly crook to begin with, that he killed only so he could take what wasn't his to begin with. Really ties the whole thing back to the unfairness of life, and how a single person's actions can ruin another's life, even a crime as small as stealing from someones house... or stealing a can of gas.
@@MeloniestNeon Her robbery also lead to one death, but we can see her motives. The dog and her eyes are the same, so wouldn't it be okay to imagine that there's more nuance behind the dog's backstory than just being a lowly crook? Maybe the dog had a family to feed and a ton of debt, you never really know, huh?
@@missseaweed2462 true it never a good thing to veiw anyone as pure evil, there's almost always a reason but thats not what the animations message is.
I wonder if the possible wife of the newest victim, will go through a journey similar to the Protagonist Cat...
@@KittyKatty999 Oh no… The cycle will never end!
I know I may be late to the party, but this animation was so beautifully written and executed that I had just had to leave something here for me to look back at. The art style, the amount of emotion in the pictures, it can really bring tears to your eyes. The fact that this was meant to be a school project too makes it all the more incredible
I love how smoothly it transitions from the present to the past and back again. The protagonist is unable to let go of what was taken from her, to the point where it interferes with her life now, and I think it's a neat way of showing that.
I love how in 5:22, you can see a glimpse of the gas dude but the camera pans to the gas as if the wife completely disregarded what she just did because she’s focused on getting the fuel to continue her revenge
Such a small yet wonderfully executed detail indeed, didn't even notice it on my first viewing. I am becoming more and more amazed on how much ''simply college students'' can achieve with enough creativity, willpower and determination.
Not sure if this was intentional, but another small detail I noticed is that the gas station is called Bacon Gas and the profile of the roof above the pumps looks like a bacon strip after the explosion (5:10).
@@jampersand0 Oh, wow. I just noticed. Also, the fact that the owner is smoking right below the ''NO SMOKING'' sign *2:47**.* If a lifetime of watching movies has taught me something, it's that cigarettes and gas stations never mix well.
I’m tryin to listen to that little tune at 6:13 on repeat 😭
Man, the scene where she breaks down is so powerful. I’m not a spiritual person, but the scene makes me wonder if her husband is there watching her. It must be so painful for him to see his wife like this but be unable to do anything to help.
大切な人を奪われたことで過去に囚われ、復讐を志すあまり本来の自分すら忘れてしまう。
誰もが当たり前に平和を享受出来る世界であることを心の底から願っている。
Not many people are pointing this out so I just wanted to mention that in the first flashback of the day her husband got murdered the focus is entirely on the killer and her husband's body is barely in her periphery while the scene is painted harsh reds, but after she sees what she has become and we're shown the same moment again the killer isn't even on screen, the focus is entirely placed on her husband and it's lit by a soft pink. Just an example of amazing cinematography.
As a longtime narrative artist, filmmaker, concept artist, story artist, etc....every single aspect of this short was crafted to perfection. The symbolism of the fire on one side and the dark blue forest on the other, and she in her red car in between, reaching that moment of limbo where she could easily become a monster if she made one more small decision - and then pulling herself back and finally processing some of her grief in a very acute, self aware way. Her environment, the moment in the short; everything was made in this story to emphasize the point at which the main character finds herself. The car running out of gas, stuck in the middle of nowhere, etc. Everything is done as support for her emotional arc, but it's not a passive arc, which is THE BEST. Every decision she makes actually affects the world, rather than the character being blown every which way by random circumstances (which is THE WORST). And the moments of her memories were, at first, of her husband assisting her: assisting her to climb down, catching her falling, etc., giving you the impression he took care of her and that she was not, perhaps, very self sufficient. And in the present we are given a very different form of her: strong willed, unafraid, wildly motivated, unhealthily so; she is propped up by her rage and she is probably the most "capable" she has ever been in her life - but finally somehow finds a balance emotionally. Because processing grief of that magnitude takes a great deal of self-awareness, strength, and self-sufficiency; perhaps, in finding her strength, she can appreciate her partner even more. What a blessing, in a world of noise and mediocre filmmaking by huge studios, this group of students has given us!
what do you mean exactly with "character being blown every which way by random circumstances"? Like, if you have some examples
@@pacifistminigun3987 the instance of the cigarette dropping on the splashed puddle of the gas which in turn led to a huge explosion
I can tread all of that
Bro left a multi paragraph essay.
@@Ch3rith This film is supposed to be theorized and delved into, that's a reason why I enjoy these kinds of films 😃
4:15 this is definitely my favourite part of the whole short film. The way the music cuts out as we see the mc sprinting at the station employee, with the whole world warped in a shot so brief we can only focus on the mc's eyes as they approach. From the glass shattering, the the pitter patter of her feet, to the build up of the cigarette falling and lighting the gasoline, the audio design for everything was nothing short of spectacular!!
Same XD I rewatched it over and over again X
Just like an empty space in a busy artwork is extremely meaningful, silence is as well. If you're used to the stimulation of a sense, you really notice once it's gone. Loss of visual makes the mind focus more on sound, loss of sound make the mind focus more on visual
Same dude, no long need to use Mc, because her name is Cathy. Got it from instagram by the spoilers.
@@jos8009 oops yeah forgot to tell him. It was just concept art, they’re not really spoilers.
If you didn't notice, on their insta they only posted stuff about the flashbacks so everyone though it was just gonna be a cute little animation. Not nearly as dark, or about revenge as they let on, even tho their name is KilledTheCat and the shorts name is "fuelled", which can be a bit foreshadowing. But, on April fools day they posted the video of her waking up while the gas station burns, but played it off as an April fools joke. So it was a surprise to some to see how dark it was when it was released, I love the way they bamboozled people
@@supersolomob422 thanks for the heads up 👍
Sometimes hatred blinds our reason and the feeling of losing the person we love the most is like losing a place to return to.
Love how this also shows how important breaking the cycle of revenge is. The protagonist killed an innocent bystander in the process of getting revenge, which many fuel (pun unintended) another do to the same, and so on so forth. It's toxic, and while the ending is hopeful it also demonstrates why the cycle is so damaging for not just those involved, but also those at the sidelines.
Well it was technically an accident he got killed, she just almost did it when he dropped the smoke, plus he didn’t really look like a nice guy anyway, but I can’t really blame her, that cat lady lost her husband to a killer and drove her very angry, now she decided to turn herself in and hopefully get some help before things get worse.
@@skyfaller3d417 We don't know what the motives of the dog was. It may have been similarly understandible. It's all about perspective.
Also, the pig probably had a family too.
@@skyfaller3d417 Well yeah, that's kindof my point. Bystanders unintentionally get hurt in the cycle of revenge.
I try to be a pacifist, but when I always hate the message that revenge is bad. I don't understand why because I'm a pacifist and I believe in reform instead of punishment for prisons. But I at the same time I feel in support of vigilante justice.
@@OzCroc Mostly because revenge doesn't really help much for the victim, especially when it comes to the expense of themselves and/or innocent bystanders. There's loads of stories of people being put to jail for hurting, kidnapping, or outright murder for revenge.
Same story with an uncle of mine. His 16 year old daughter was raped and beaten by an abusive boyfriend, when he found out, he beat the abusive boyfriend in his apartment so badly he had to call for an ambulance. He died in the hospital days later and my uncle was sentenced to jail for 12 years for involuntary manslaughter. He's left behind 3 children, including a 4 year old son and 9 year old daughter who'll have grow up without their father.
I don't particularly condemn vigilante justice but I know it comes with major complications, enough that it has to be treated with a negative light always, healing and moving on has to be a priority and hurting others impedes that.
I must applaud the character designers! The subtle differences with her whiskers and ear being used to portray her mental state in the present vs past is amazing! I also love the subtle details in paper of the "police sketch" showing its wear and how it has been folded many times, eventually leading to it tearing. I only wish I had found this stunning animation sooner!
What i really loved the most, which hasnt been talked about that much, is the moment she first ran out of gas and you just hear her car horn honk over and over. You don't see the motion at all, but you know shes enraged at the situation and is blaring her horn in anger. It was a nice touch to not show her movements, and to instead have a wide shot of her being emotional all by herself in her car
She's not just blaring her horn, she's hitting her head off of the wheel.
This made me cry, losing someone you knew was the one and getting them ripped away from you is truly tragic. I can’t believe some school students made this, it told the story so clearly and I really hope that there will be more of these beautiful short films in the future.
6:12 Is easily my favorite part; however, the shine fading from her husband's eyes is gut-wrenching.
how did u notice it 0_0
@@damnyou2586 With the shine in my eyes.
Farrrrk that was painful
It's usual in anime
@@kitsunemesis That's depressing.
I love how this really shows what basically trauma is like, in the beginning, the main character is sitting there, completely dumbfounded, then seeing the killer's picture made her immediately want revenge, which basically took over. That whole fight scene, her being so desperate to get what she wanted to avenge her husband's death, until she saw the murderous reflection in the mirror, she realized, "what have I done?" knowing that her husband wouldn't want this.
Overall, 10/10 animation, the animators are very very talented !! Definitely made me cry
This, everyone is talking about the animation and the pain but I haven't read a single comment about trauma, I personally have experienced loosing someone (not close to me but It made me deeply sad and it developed in PTSD somehow), this film is a hug to every person that has experienced that, it really shows the pain she feels with her trauma.
this was made by a group of animators FYI
She became the very thing she sought to destroy.
UR USER AND PFP ARE A WILL WOOD REFERENCE AHHHHH but yeah it also made me cry
@@theultimatepookiebearkevin YES.
The scene where she breaks down and realizes she's become the very monster she's been ready to torment for so long never fails to leave me crying.
Where did get that name from?
womp womp
womp womp😔...@@thwobing
womp womp
@@EmotionalParaquat714神离天probably the Instagram if I remember right
THIS is the BEST short film I have ever seen. The raw emotion i felt while watching this is unmatched.
Love this thing. I really like how the ending shot (8:02) parallels the beginning shot (0:00)
Dang bro. Nice catch!
I thought I was the only one who noticed that!
the house isnt burning though, it just looks like it is because the lights are on
Ur profile pic is from terminal montage aint it Revenant?
Wow, I didn't notice that
A small detail I notice was when she was bleeding and rushed to the car, there were scratches and the car seemed messy. Perhaps this was an indication of how her mental state was getting far beyond from okay. The colouring and toned used for this was a perfect match, loved it!!
I've seen many animations try and fail to use the big-headed, cute character style with a story I'm supposed to take seriously and they usually fall flat on their face. I'm not sure exactly what combination of things you used to evade this, but you did a phenomenal job. The parallel between her and the murderer in the mirror was especially fantastic, those kinds of parallels tend to be a bit samey, but that one was very creatively done imo.
her eyes
@@Warman. yeah I think it's the pupils not being so dilated during normal means, and main character's eyes only dilated at the end
I wish they told us if they're making a sequel or not so the ounce of hope can die or thrive within me...
Because this is the only animation to make me emotional and invested in it, in only 9 minutes.
The moment where her eyes replace the murderers is the best because it really shows that she's realized she is becoming or turning out to be just as bad as the monster she was searching for. This is a great animation!
The composition of the shot at 2:29 is flawless.
We're made aware that it is protagonist's perspective from the low angle of the shot. The tilt is a subtle hint that her perception is "skewed". Then you have the sign reading 'bacon' right next to his head, alluding to both how she perceives him (nothing more than meat) AND his death in the coming moments.
Damn you have a good eye
Um isn't that supposed to be the name of the gas station? Maybe you missed the word gas underneath it?
@@unknownuser6549 yeah that is the name of the gas station... and now go figure why they deliberately chose to name that hog-manned gas station exactly "bacon".
Good use of the dutch angle/tilt too
@@Heroesflorian ye they also "bake in" gas. Likely unintentional, but a lovely little bonus
Even though I want there to be a happy ending for the protagonist, I know that’s not what the creators wanted to convey, and I applaud them for it. Great work team!
Like Green Goblin said "The one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail." So it's human nature that we like sad endings a lot of the times because it's more realistic, real life is sad.
@@beyondthefilms6302 I don't think people like sad endings because "it's more realistic" than happy endings, I think it's because it is a counter for specifically "happily forever after" happy ending which is very often used in family movies (which has a very very big market), e.g. almost all classic disney family movies.
@@TheSiprianus well I disagree, I think you prove Green Goblin right tho... you're just scared or feel guilty to admit it. "iTs iS A cOuNtEr" what do you think real life is genius.
@@beyondthefilms6302 You were not satisfied with your previous reply because you feel lost in argument? You should've added a new comment or at least deleted your previous comment instead of just edited it to become much more condescending. I remember your comment like "well I disagree, but I respect your opinion".
'prove green goblin right'. You keep repeating green goblin , looks like someone is too obsessed with a fictional character. Get a life edgy kid, green goblin is not that deep. You are reaching. Just because your personal life is sad, doesn't mean everyone's real life is. Don't get cut by that edge.
@@TheSiprianus There's 2 reasons people like sad endings.
1. IS because they are realistic. And realistic = relatable, and humans love things they can relate to, characters they can feel empathy for. A sad ending sticks with someone because it's never resolved and it never will be, there's no satisfaction and it irks us, which is good. A happy ending is done, there's no reason to ponder it because it's resolved and the story settles there.
BECAUSE sad stories stick with you, they are good for leaving a message. Bonus points if the situation is something the veiwer/reader has experienced (for example, running out of fuel), because then it's more relatable, and the character's shoes fit our feet all the better. This film has the obvious message of "Be careful of who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.", or as Obi-Wan would phrase it "Becoming the very thing you swore to destroy."
2. On the contrary, we tend to contrast sad stories with our lives. When we watch happy ending after happy ending, we feel cheated out of our own... But sad stories are the opposite, they can make you feel your life is closer to a happy ending than an unresolved one that irks us. However, if your life is a sad story itself, sad stories are there to tell you that you aren't the only one who's been through trouble. And all of that ties back to relatability.
End: The things that can amplify relatability are: common struggles, justified intense emotion, cuteness, realistic emotion, personality and quirks, emotive facial expression, a rich backstory, character development, and a soul.
All of which this film has!
Common struggles: Losing a loved one, running out of gas.
Justified intense emotion: The crying scene, banging her head on the wheel: though many times you'll see the cat housewife with a blank stare, even in the opening right after her love was murdered, this only amplifies her real emotions when they come out
Cuteness: It's a cat with mostly circle shape language, literally. Some of the flashbacks are quite cute as well.
Realistic emotion: the blank "nothing" emotion she has at the beginning is shock, being in shock.The fit of desperation when she tries to kill the boar, and yet again as she takes the can instead of helping. Which all comes down to her selfish revenge. Which, I'm gonna speak for everyone, the audience already cares enough that they'd want the boar to die if she could get her revenge. This film makes you want her revenge just as much as she does.
Personality and quirks: She's clumsy, almost falling off the bus, unbalanced when ice skating, fumbles and spills fuel everywhere. Also has visual quirks, like a fluff at the end of her tail, a piece taken out of her left ear and squiggly whiskers (both are post-murder).
Emotive facial expression: she has giant and very circular eyes, which makes emotion easily readable. Even the slightest movement of her brow and cheeks would deform the perfect circle and make it readable.
A rich backstory: The flashbacks.
Character Development: between flashbacks, as well as the whiskers and nip out of her ear.
A soul: All of the above combined
I hope you have a deeper understanding of what it means after ThAT lmao
This...
Masterpiece...
Broke my heart so hard...
I lost a tear...
This is pure, art.
A moment...Of silence...
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😢😭😥
The housewife in end the became the very same thing she sought to destroy. Even though she done one thing differently, which was call for help and/or turned herself in. Hats off to everyone who worked on this project! This is such a stunning piece of artwork and I hope you do more like this down the line!
yo Lil Miss!
Yeah, both of them killed someone while robbing a store
She was blinded by her own rage, it's actually kinda sad
From my perspective, it isn't her fault that the gas station blew up... It was the dude who threw the cigarette. The only thing she would have been responsible for was attempted theft and assault. What he did however, was what the scientific community call Darwinism.
@@notmyregret He didn't throw the cigarette, he dropped it after she charged at him with a broken bottle, even if the gas station didn't blow up she was fully intending to stab and likely kill him.
And after the station did blow up she showed absolutely no concern or remorse for his life until much later.
Also she was the reason the ground was covered in fuel in the first place.