Response to Aria

The short film Aria was quite interesting. It was interesting how at the end of the film the story seemed to begin again. It suggested that her pain could never truly end due to her being a puppet. Even when she was broken back down into the original pieces, she was put back together and forced to feel her pain all over again. It also provides a sense that we never truly escape our feelings, that we only learn to cope with them. Once we have rebuilt ourselves and return to our state of content, our feelings will come back to use again and we experience the pain we worked so hard to forget. The use of stop-motion animation to create this short I feel was also an unique choice. These feelings could have been easily been represented with real people, as the opera the film was based on had been. However, I feel that the ending would not have been as impactive had the film used real actors. The use of the stop-motion animation made the ending much more symbolic and meaningful as it drew a parallel between the animate and inanimate. It was also interesting to see how someone took an opera that was around two hours long and condense it into a ten minute short film. It is not something you would normally consider doing, yet it worked and was still able to convey the same story.