Hi, I come back! Today, I want to review the <Bear Story>, one of my favorite short animation!
Bear Story (Spanish: Historia de un oso) is a 2014 Chilean animated short film directed by Gabriel Osorio Vargas. The screenplay was co-written with Daniel Castro and the film was produced by Pato Escala Pierart. The story is inspired by the director’s grandfather, Leopoldo Osorio, who, after the Chilean coup d’état, was imprisoned for two years and then forced to live in exile for the duration of the dictatorship.[1][2] The film was a critical success, winning the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards. It is the first Chilean winner of an Academy Award and the first Latin American animation to win and/or get nominated for an Oscar.<From Wikipedia>
Beginning:
- A mechanical bear appears in the center of the screen, it is in a kind of mechanical diorama made by a bear living in the real world.
Development:
- The bear went to the street and work there, he makes living for showing people mechanical diorama. A small bear pays for watching his diorama.
- Another story begin, an Animal Troupe set in the town and people inside caught the bear into the troupe so that the bear apart to his family.
- People whips the bear to train him and force him to perform in the troupe.
- One day he finds a way out and run to his town.
Ending:
- Finally, Bear finds his family, and the baby bear leave happily.
Curve:
It is a very sad animation short film. People always make use of animal for money, which is so evil because animal also has their own family. Even though mechanical bear find his family in the story, but I think the bear in the reality hasn’t because his house is totally empty.
This short film actually use the way of flashback to tell the story, which I think it is a great way to make audience touched. From this story, I hope in the future, people can give up this way of entertainment in animal troupe.