David O'Reilly - The External World

As the creator says, "A boy learns to play the piano". In the meantime, a lot of weird shit happens. Pure genius, if you ask me.
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The real grounding to analyze this film is the sequence at 14:26. The text comes up stating, "Remember: This is merely a cartoon. None of this is real. This is a purely fictional occurrence, in no way based on reality. This is not happening in this universe or any other. Neither are these words. Neither are you. There is only a silent emptiness spreading infinitely in all directions."

This is the sadness of the piano. All the while, the characters act like its not big deal that they are taking apart this human like being. What the film does is force you to feel empathy for what is going on, relate to this 3d images, which are not 'real'. However, the fact that you can relate to them is what is so disturbing, because the conclusion is that our reality, our 'external world' is itself another virtual 3d image program, merely the one that we are born into without consent.

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