Rabbit by Run Wrake
Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Media |
First and foremost be warned that this is not your everyday cute and adorable elements at work here. And there is definitely no happy ending here. Watch if only you could appreciate the storytelling style and the message being conveyed. Rabbit is a dark animated short film by Run Wrake.
| Rabbit - Run Wrake |
A synopsis of the Rabbit, found on RES.com site.
Rabbit relates a moral tale with a subversive, macabre tone achieved through black humor and graceful menace. The story takes place in a seemingly idyllic English countryside complete with portentous cloudscapes and bleating farm animals, all based on those helpful stickers. A boy and girl capture a rabbit, slice it in half, and discover a magical monster inside. The snarling, strangely endearing creature runs amok in their house, zapping bothersome insects, which turn into jewels, bottles of ink or feathers. The conniving children quickly realize their new pet’s earning potential and exploit it by butchering local farm animals to attract swarms of flies and wasps. As in all good fairytales, the children get their comeuppance and meet a gruesome end.
Undeniably, Run Wrake’s storytelling style is definitely different and the meaning obscure at least to the ignorant ones. In Run’s own words:
“The images in Rabbit hark back to a time when it didn’t seem so important to be greedy. To have a massive house and a big income and bling and all this stuff that seems to be seen as a positive thing now. We admire people who are ostentatious with their wealth and we all seem to aspire to it. Clearly it doesn’t make you happy, so why? Nobody seems to know what to do any more. The past always seems a bit more rosy, but it genuinely did seem to be a simpler time where simpler values were admired. It’s a very unfashionable thing to say, but I think it’s worth thinking about.”
It started with a rabbit and it ended with a rabbit.
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