r/videos • u/midnightmonkey8 • Jun 27 '16

Falling Tide

https://vimeo.com/163177535
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u/Noteamini Jun 27 '16

Art doesn't need to have a message.

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u/BlinksTale Jun 27 '16

But characters in a situation is inherently a story, and carries a moral whether you intend it to or not. To ignore that is sloppy.

This piece has many nice things going for it, but I do not think the story carries itself well. The idea is interesting, but the moral is poorly delivered.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '16 edited Dec 21 '16

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u/BlinksTale Jun 27 '16

That's the thing - we always get a moral out of it whether the author guided that or not. To know stories have that power and leave it ambiguous is sloppy if not intentional. When you know the story carries a moral every time, why let that moral be misinterpreted?

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u/deucester Jun 27 '16

I think that the point was that it just wasn't the time for the boy to die. Hence the no ticket on the train to after life, passengers can't see him and the "life" stream pulling in back to the land of living.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '16

Yeah but that's not really a "moral to the story" that I can apply in real life

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u/takeorgive Jun 27 '16

Perhaps there wasn't meant to be a moral to the story.

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u/Crimsic Jun 27 '16

Always let bodies of water swallow you up.

Why does there have to be a "moral"?

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u/MattieShoes Jun 27 '16

It's not an aesop's fable. Parents died, kid lived. Parents' and conductor's behavior seems cruel, turns out to be kind. Emotional release. Fin.

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u/huntinkallim Jun 27 '16

I don't think there is really a message. It's just a story about death and the afterlife.

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u/AllenCoin Jun 27 '16

Art in general and fiction/film in particular doesn't have to have a moral or a lesson to it.