Photos
Sam Webb
- James (younger)
- (voice)
Janice Biggs
- James's Wife
- (voice)
Stephen Todd
- Mr. Price
- (voice)
Charlie Bishop
- Boy in Class
- (voice)
Peter McNulty
- Boy in Class
- (voice)
Steven Nolan
- Donovan
- (voice)
Storyline
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Interesting if not totally successful look at childhood heroes
A man decides to try and track down his old teacher, Mr Price, after a chance meeting with an old popstar that Mr Price used to claim to be friends with. They talk on the phone and reminisce while the man recalls what it was about Mr Price that made him stick in his memory for so long. However it starts to become clear that maybe Price is not all that the man remembers he was.
With an interesting mix of live action and animation, this film does a reasonable job of conveying a complex character gradually and stripping away layers of memory from the man looking for his old teacher. However it doesn't manage to make such an impact that it delivers a clear message on either of these threads. The thrust of the film is the man discovering that not only is his teacher losing it in old age but also that he may have never been this stable rock of a man that he remembers as a boy seeing him with adult eyes has allowed him to see things clearer than before and it is not as good as he remembers. This is well done but lacks a real emotional punch it should have been much more impacting than it was but it just came off as rather matter-of fact.
The flat narration doesn't help but the script doesn't really dig deep enough to do it either. The animation is basic but effective, figures on white backgrounds suggest the selectivity of memory, but then I may be reading in too much to it. Overall this was an interesting little film that makes a good point with its story and has some humour as well, but lacks the real emotional punch that it should have done to draw us into the characters and also get our memories going to ask questions of ourselves.
With an interesting mix of live action and animation, this film does a reasonable job of conveying a complex character gradually and stripping away layers of memory from the man looking for his old teacher. However it doesn't manage to make such an impact that it delivers a clear message on either of these threads. The thrust of the film is the man discovering that not only is his teacher losing it in old age but also that he may have never been this stable rock of a man that he remembers as a boy seeing him with adult eyes has allowed him to see things clearer than before and it is not as good as he remembers. This is well done but lacks a real emotional punch it should have been much more impacting than it was but it just came off as rather matter-of fact.
The flat narration doesn't help but the script doesn't really dig deep enough to do it either. The animation is basic but effective, figures on white backgrounds suggest the selectivity of memory, but then I may be reading in too much to it. Overall this was an interesting little film that makes a good point with its story and has some humour as well, but lacks the real emotional punch that it should have done to draw us into the characters and also get our memories going to ask questions of ourselves.
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- bob the moo
- Jan 4, 2005
Details
- Runtime10 minutes
- Color
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