It is pretty but rather slow. I almost didn't make it to the end, but I'm glad I did.

Loved it.

I get tired of this style of humanoids. I've seen many works and while some work, there is always a subset like this which reveal themselves as badly looking humanoids because the artist sucks at making humanoids.

Also you can tell this was pretty much done by one or more cg artist, and no writers amongst them. It leads you with a text intro into a futuristic plot, at which point it follows one man. Every second the movie plays along, more and more questions get asked. At the end, the storyline was a fake.. and this guys just a wacked out old man in hospital called ark. This is where the big problem arises. The story at the very end is abruptly called false and the new storyline which last like 30 seconds, has 2 connections with the old story line, the name of the hospital and the shape of the hospital. Thats it... so why do we care? What do we walk away from this movie with? I'll tell you what... a ton of questions from the main storyline that never get answered and zero questions from the ending.

If I really liked tormenting myself like this I would make a habit of watching every tv show to the 18 minute mark and then quickly switch over to the home shopping network.

^ I don't believe in a set formula for artistic expression. I found this short enjoyable.

Just because you're tired of this style of humanoid, jmd (and that's fine), doesn't mean that the artist sucks at making humanoids. It might have been his choice from the get go. It would be like saying Picasso chose his style because he sucked at painting things realistically.

As far as the story goes, here is how I view it: The mysterious disease is actually just the aging process, and one of the common side effects of aging is senile dementia, which can manifest itself in many ways, including living in a fantasy world. Even in his dementia he realizes that something is wrong with himself, and decides to end it all.

That's how I took it. I thought it was a good, dark short story.

I'm with jmd, on the look of the humanoids and the shitty/cheap/lazy "gotcha" ending. Writers should know by now that hitting the reset/dream button at the end of the story is lame, lame, lame. The one thing I did like was the visual of the cavernous interior of the ship.

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