Director: Hannes Häyhä Year: 2004 Location: Finland
Type: Animated Short
'I Love Death' is an existentialist film that I stumbled across a while back on the futureshorts network. Through the use of stick animation, it follows a man as he grows up from a baby, to a rebelious teenager, to a depressed old man.
It should be noted from the word go that this is without a doubt one of the weirdest animations I have ever watched. In a nutshell, this film is a bleak outlook on the cycle of life, professing that you grow up by accident, and live a monotonous life until you have a child, die and the circle begins again.
This film is all about relationships, which is the reason I am reviewing it. The relationships shown in this film, however, are completely different to the loving ones shown in our film, and it suggests that marriage (one of the key themes of love in our film) is an insignificant thing, and perhaps just a way of finding security and acceptance in hard times. In one particular scene, the man finds his wife in bed with a stranger, suggesting that marriage and love actually means very little. This is only one of the devises in the film that suggests that life is futile and pointless, the most obvious being the cycle completing at the end of the animation.
This film doesn't really relate to our project, but it interested me and I thought I would just do a little write up. If you wish to watch the film, click here however be warned the film contains adult themes throughout.
CONTENT
Violence: Some animated violence.
Language: None
Adult Content: Strong animated sex scenes.
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