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http://vimeo.com/21216091
Quite disturbing.
Wow lol, that was....something else alright. I actually liked Blinky, I thought Alex was kind of a brat honestly.
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Alex was a brat who had it coming.
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Alex was a brat, but he was only acting out because the toy didn't do what the ads promised, which was to 'bring the whole family together'.
Although I found Blinky's tone of voice disturbingly hilarious when he tells the parents about where Alex is.
"He's right here...I cleaned him and cooked him. You're eating him."
"What's the matter? Can't you outrun a bloody moped?" - Princess Di
At first Alex was sympathetic, but he came off as very obnoxious. I thought his behavior towards the robot was over the top. (at least he didn't take it out on the dog)
The story struck me as incomplete, lacking in character and plot development.
* God is an imaginary friend for adults. *
I agree the kid was pissed because his parents were constantly fighting and he was taking his anger and frustration out on blinky. max records's performance made the film. this was a good sci-fi / horror flim.
shareGuess it all comes down to subjectivity. While I felt bad for Alex, he still came of as bratty to me. His parents spent 10,000$ on the world's most expensive toy, you'd think he would be alittle more appreciative of the thought and effort. I sure would, but like I said it all comes down to subjectivity.
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We don't know how much the parents spent. It looked like a really futuristic setting, so odds are something like Blinky probably cost a few hundred at the most.
Then again, they might have gone all out on getting Blinky just to buy the kid's love since they were arguing all the time.
"What's the matter? Can't you outrun a bloody moped?" - Princess Di
But yes, we DO indeed know how much the parents spent, because at the end of the first full-time Blinky commercial it said 9.999$ in large letters.
I had my father watch this film.
He only just chuckled a single time throughout the whole movie and did not laugh once, and at the end just asked what the whole point was and how stupid I was to have empathy for a robot or how I could humanize him (my father said “it”), and what was so funny or creepy about the story. (Even if I understood the whole time it was being just a machine, that couldn't accomplish all it was told to or was promised to be capable of doing, like bringing a broken family together.)
Can someone please tell me how sad that is?
Or do I have the problem because I found the movie brillant, creepy and laughed of my a$$ loud several times, or is it my father who actually has a problem?
(Sorry for my english, I am not a native speaker)
I really would appreciate any answer to my question!
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I didn't find it especially funny but it did have a bit of dark humour in there, it was a good short film. I think people are missing the point of the film if they are just moaning about the kids attitude in the film.
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shareFor a couple of weeks you view this film for free. You are too late, it is no longer available for free.
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shareI honestly thought this was going to be a stupid film, but I liked it. I felt sorry for Blinky having the bratty Alex screw him up. Blinky technically did do everything he was told. Once Alex began getting mad and yelling at him you knew right away that something bad was going to happen. Especially when the mom was talking to Alex with Blinky right there and he was still remembering what was said even after he had been rebooted. I saw this at http://www.sockshare.com/file/88D91546F46E4978#. I recommend it. It's kinda funny, but more creepy, especially towards the end.
~beware the sea monkeys~
Is it wrong that I felt sad for Blinky when Alex made him stand out in the rain and count backwards from one million to play a game of hide and seek, which Alex didn't even want to play? There was even sad music playing in the background.
~beware the sea monkeys~
I am asking the same question about myself, but like I explained in my other reply in this thread, my father whom I had watch this movie told me how idiotic I was to feel sad for Blink or humanzing him or it.
But I guess it is okay to do so because in one scene, when Blinky is carrying the bags on the way home (after Alex had already sometime ago started to get bored of and annoyed by Binky), a super high tech streamlined far more advanced humanoid passes by, giving them a disparaging nod. So I think one is ment to believe the robots in this film do have some sort of feelings, and thus the viewer to have empathy.
I am not sure though if it's just me having such an impression or interpretating too much soul into it. But even if the humanoid's nod towards them was just a parenthetical greeting in some sloppy sort of manner, it would still make my think there was something more to or in them as just being an insensate machine.
(Sorry for my english, it is my second language)
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It's available on another Vimeo channel:
http://vimeo.com/channels/181611
It's also on Youtube (english with spanish subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtYD2VrXZzY
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saw it, hated it with a passion!
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