At first I was a little repulsive toward this short film because it has some gory and strange scenes in it however, it does have some comicalness and enjoyable scenes in it as well. The main message of this short film however, has a deep meaning about freedom and life.
The main character is a twenty year old man who lives with his parents in a house in the middle of a field. His parents are very robot like and this may surprise you in the beginning however, later on in the film it shows that they are artificially alive and run on a wind-up machine. They have a huge wind on their backs which the twenty year old man would have to wind to get them functioning again. That was one of the strange scenes because the parents start to malfunction like a breaking robot.
One day the man sees a girl dancing around with her pet bird in the field. This girl came from the forest that was beyond the field. I think that the forest represents freedom and the field represents reality and life out side of the man's artificial world which is the house. One sad day the girl's pet bird dies and she comes out to the field to burry it. It just so happened that the man was watching this. After the girl leaves the man goes out of his house for the first time. At first he is hesitant and perhaps a little afraid. However, he reaches the grave spot and begins to dig up the dead bird. He takes it home and begins to "operate " on it. This is the gory scene where he cuts open the bird. He "fixes" it by replacing its heart and organs with wind up machinery. The next day when the girl comes to put flowers at the birds grave the man goes out to meet her. He is very shy however, presents the girl with the modified bird. He winds it up to show her but the girl screams in horror of the artificial bird and runs away! I think this is the climax of the film. The man realizes only then how fake and unreal his life was.
The man goes home however, doesn't feel content like he used to. It didn't feel real. In the end his parents collapse and stop functioning all together. He then burries his parents and leaves the house. He goes off into the woods toward a new future. I think this symbolizes freedom and new life.
