kara walling-movie clip #1

1) Bunny
Although the Bunny clip was relatively short and shot in a playful manor, I thought it conveyed a serious message underneath. The bunny in the clip could be viewed as a representation of the human race, while the moth represents the angel of death. This seems to be a common theme in many of the films we’ve watched in class. We can be in a battle with death everyday trying to manipulate or avoid death as long as possible, or we may not even know the relationship exists, but inevitably we are forced to accept it. I feel like it’s important to bring up the determination of both the bunny and the moth. The vivid movements in the clip give depth to their emotions and determination to “win” the battle. I feel like this is what allows us to make the connection between the characters, the bunny and the moth, to ourselves. We too have battles on a regular basis and feel the same types of emotion or act in the same manor as the bunny, and whether we know we are being faced with death or not, death will still prevail, if not then, then at another time in our lives. Also, when the bunny is being lured into the light through the oven, I thought it was a symbolization of the passageway between the two realms of heaven and earth. During this instance of the clip, I thought about the rays of light that beam down between the clouds towards the late afternoon. When I was a child I used to think the rays of sunlight represented an opening into the heavens for someone who had passed away on earth. I just thought it was interesting how the light in the oven, where the bunny is finally taken in by death, made me reflect back on that childhood memory.