Film review: Paperman
Paperman is a piece
of art worth watching. John Kars, the director, decided he wanted to make
movies when he was 8 years old and in his nominee questionnaire for The Oscars
13th he wrote Paperman was his dream movie project. It seems that this
short film is not only his dream, because it has been given an Oscar as the
best short film animated. These six and a half minutes of pure gold have given
Kars worldwide fame.
The film tells us the
story of a man called George who meets a woman, Meg, in a subway station. It
was windy and a paper was disturbing her, so he helped her and they started the
usual game of looking to each other, getting blushed. Then, suddenly, he is
distracted for a moment and she leaves. He goes to work and can’t stop thinking
about her, with her paper on his hands. But there she is. Meg’s in the building
across the street. George starts throwing paper planes through the window
trying to catch her attention but she doesn’t see the planes. When she leaves
the building, he runs behind her, but he can’t find her.
But as always happens
in this kind of films, music solves are problems. A splendid music piece
composed by Christophe Beck guides us while both main characters follow the
paper planes that make them find each other in the subway station where they
first met.
The black and white
pictures, the red details for Meg’s lipstick, the encouraging music, her lively
eyes, his big nose… The short is a whole of simple and delicate details united
in a perfect composition that makes happy everyone who watches it. Paperman is
completely worth watching. Don’t miss it.
Clara Martínez
Arcas
2n Batxillerat
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