Synopsis
A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?
Sister
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I can definitely see how this may be read as anti-choice when seen through a western lens, but to me it's clearly not about that. Very impressive!
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This short isn’t anti-choice. It is against China’s One Child Policy, something that takes the choice away from women.
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NOMINEE- Oscars, short animation.
This film punched me right in the face. Also, the felt based stop motion animation is cool.
Short films always give me the feels... I don't like it.
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It's like the Boss Baby but in China and also it's good.
Holy shit this one was amazing. Not only is it creative in its visuals and animation, and able to have lots of fun uses of the medium, it's also heartbreaking and mournful. Easily my favourite from the whole animation category, it's the one I want to win, but there's no way it'll actually win.
Also try into it blind because some reviews on here do kinda spoil aspects of the movie just based on what they say
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Is it possible for me to get through any of these Oscar nominated shorts without tearing up??
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''She would take my toys.''
The worst thing about animated shorts is always their endings.
Just once I would like an animated short film to maintain its core story throughout, instead of ending with an emotionally manipulative twist that recontextualises the previous few minutes to be heartbreaking™ in the blandest way possible.
I'm not even against the idea here—in fact I think there's a lot that could be done with the short's general premise—I just think it was handled so poorly.
That all said, the animation was absolutely lovely.
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Oh man I loved this one! At first it was just a really sweet and relatable story. But as it progressed it became way more meaningful. This was a really interesting take on the one child policy in China.