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An unlikely connection sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.
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Kitbull
2019 Directed by Rosana Sullivan
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the INSANELY thorough and careful observations the filmmakers made into how kittens move realistically is so noticeable during the part where the cat finds the bottle cap, bats at it, jumps around with it, pauses to lay on the ground for a few seconds, then jumps up to play with it some more. When I saw this I said holy shit out loud
the act of dogfighting and the mistreatment of pitbulls specifically is so unbelievably vile but the outcome of this is so tender. in 8 minutes I went through every emotion known to man I think I discovered some new ones
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doctor: ma’am can you please tell me where the pain is located
me, sobbing: my heart
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i've only known kit and bull for 10 minutes but if anything happened to them i'd kill everyone in this room and then myself
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IMDb: 8.0
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Release Date: 18 February 2019
Total Film Awards: 1
Worldwide Gross: $1.15M
OSCAR Nominations: 1This wonderful animation short that portrays an unlikely connection between an independent stray kitten and pitbull is profoundly touching and executes the themes of friendship and emotion to absolute perfection.
It is also one of the more honest depictions of cats and dogs that I have seen in quite some time. The unique animation also helps convey the emotional connection in such a nice way. In a world that likes to shame pit bulls at any waking moment, it's nice to see something that paints them in a positive light.
DIRECTOR: Rosana Sullivan
WRITER(s): Rosana SullivanIt's a heartwarming tale that definitely doesn't overstay its nine-minute run time. It is the best spark short that I have seen thus far and I can't recommend it enough.
Stay safe my friends.
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Utterly amazing. Heartfelt and a true leap forward for animated short films. Absolutely beautiful animation and a tear jerking story at its core. Powerful stuff.
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NOMINEE- Oscars, short animation.
Animals are fucking adorable! Cats and dogs being friends is even more adorable. Fuck the sick fucks that hurt animals.
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This is incredibly well done and the art style is great. Also got some Ghibli-level animation and attention to detail.
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A rather sweet short animation, Kitbull tells a familiar fox-and-the-hound style tale of friendship between a timorous stray kitten and a mistreated, good-hearted Pitbull. Like many animated shorts of its type it has no dialogue, allowing the visual storytelling and the actions of the animal characters to tell its story. It can be quite dark and sad at times, being quite unflinching in its invocation of the cruelty of dog-fighting, balanced by its comparatively overly neat happy ending.
Probably my biggest issue is in the mismatched character design. Most of the film's world is very realist, as is the simplified, slightly block-y design of the dog, but the kitten is very exaggerated and stylised, with jet black fur, white eyes… -
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It's the most realistic movements of animals I've seen in an animated film.
Very very well done!
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