vik wrote:Rape is not the theme, he just says he's gonna rape her. You don't see it or anything.
Rape itself is a sexual theme (a fairly dark one, at that), and...
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...the screaming at the end implied that the woman was being raped, even if it was offscreen. You can only take the "you didn't see anything, therefore it wasn't there" thing so far.
Anyways, the animation was fine, but the timing and presentation of the "joke" didn't feel quite right, so the humor was sort of lost on me. The dark color-grading and editing style sort of gave the film a pre-conceived creepy atmosphere, which took away from the "unexpected" nature of it (it might have been a bit more unexpected if it was brighter and lit more like the standard "daytime" atmosphere). Also, I think you lingered on the shot of the baby falling a bit too long, which sort of killed the humor for me. In fact, if it were me, I don't think I would have shown the baby hit the ground at all, probably just the man tossing it out the window (IMO, for certain things, I think what is implied is often funnier than witnessing what actually happens). Overall, it just seems like you were deliberately trying to offend people rather than make effective dark humor.
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