's "Delicious Feast" directed by Patrick Osborne won the Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards. The story of only 6 minutes, through the unique perspective of the puppy Winston, records the food that he and his owner eat every day, and tells the owner's wonderful love story. In fact, this short film conveys not only love, but also growth, the growth of the puppy Winston, and the growth of the male owner.
Temptation and Indulgence
The first long shot of the film confessed that the puppy Winston was originally a poor stray dog on the roadside, and was later adopted by the male owner to return home, which means that Winston's life has gone from calm to broken . The second and third shots show Winston gorging on dog food, to show that the host takes care of Winston in every possible way. Immediately after the fourth shot, the host added an extra fried egg and bacon to Winston's dog food, which implies sharing and acceptance. In the following shots, Winston took the initiative to push away the dog food and opened his mouth wide to wait for the owner's delicious food. From pasta, steak, pizza, popcorn, to ice cream, cake desserts, and burgers, Winston lived it up. A happy life completely different from the past. At the same time, through Winston's perspective, he explained the life of the male host as a bachelor. He often took Winston to eat Heiser, watch football games, go to dinner together, enjoy and indulge in the beautiful world of self-woven. Whether it is the male owner or the puppy Winston, they all indulge themselves under the temptation of good food, and lead an unrestrained and peaceful life day after day.
Emotion and control
's comfortable life of one person and one dog was broken until this day. The male owner is in love. He is a restaurant employee, who loves green, is a vegetarian, and has a healthy life. Obviously, this is very different from the male host’s eating habits, but in the face of love and desire, the male host chose to change himself for love. He abandoned all desserts and fried foods. Get rid of the habit of holding popcorn while watching a game. In addition, he also eats a vegetarian diet with his girlfriend every day, doing sports and yoga together. However, with the arrival of the host’s happiness, Winston’s delicious feast is about to come to an end. There are no more delicious fried eggs, ham and cakes in his rice bowl. Instead, there are a bunch of strange green shapes. There is always a coriander leaf on top of the food. Winston refuses in this situation. He overturns the food with anger to express his protest, but the owner can't extricate himself in the pink bubble of love. Here, the director deliberately replaced the main body of light with the male host, while Winston was in backlight and shadow. Such sharp contrasts showed different moods. The host is willing to control his diet and weight for love, this is the first step in his growth.
Frustration and understanding of
Later, the male owner fell apart. He opened the refrigerator and began to overeating uncontrollably. This is a good thing for Winston, because it can eat the old food again, so he took a few shots. Shows Winston's repeated gluttonous movements. But Winston gradually realized that his master was unhappy. He no longer accompany it to eat and play with it as before. Instead, he stared at the green coriander leaf that was full of joy, listless. At this moment, Winston seemed to feel sadness. He picked up the unpalatable coriander leaves and rushed all the way to the restaurant where the hostess was. Even though delicious and rich food was falling on the ground, Winston chose to grit his teeth and ignore it. Finally, Winston reconnected the host and hostess with coriander leaves. This coriander leaf is not only a symbol of love, but also a symbol of Winston's growth. It is no longer just the subject of request, but has become the subject of giving. Under the director's lens, Winston is an animal despite being an animal. But also full of gratitude, willing to eat unpalatable things in exchange for the happiness of the owner, willing to control his desire to protect the family relationship with the owner, and more importantly, Winston's desire restraint brings the owner courage. Helped him win back love. In other words, Winston grew up, and the male host also completed his second step of growth. In the face of setbacks, his spirit went from bad to worse, but when the opportunity came. He has the courage to grasp and win back a wonderful life for himself. The host and hostess of
guard and long-term love
soon got married. They moved to a new house and gave birth to a baby. Everything was very happy and perfect. For the male host, he changed from a boy to a man, from a bachelor to a husband and a father. The full harvest of this journey allowed him to complete self-salvation. Winston is a witness to the love of the male host, he accompanies the host all the way and comforts himAnd courage, invisibly learned the meaning of growth. Although the color of the new home is green and the owner's food is not tasty, Winston still chooses to accompany and guard.
Until this day the little master was born, he loves meatballs, desserts, all kinds of delicious food, and prefers to share with Winston. It can be seen that the director gave the story a perfect comedy ending. Winston did not live unhappy because of restraining desires. On the contrary, it reaped another happy life. From one person, to one person and one dog, to two people and one dog, to today's two adults, one child and one dog, the concept of home is also conveyed.
5. Looking at growth from 6 minutes to a life
This short film tells about food, about love, about family, it looks messy, but it is integrated in the director's lens language, and points to Winston and the male host. Growth experience. Winston grew up. He changed from a little guy who only cared about food to a spiritual animal who knew how to be grateful and stay with him. The host is also growing up. In the face of love, he gave up the desire for all kinds of junk food and dared to pursue the girls he liked. Although he encountered setbacks later, he could pick up the courage and reap life after cheering up. In fact, from a macro perspective, this short film is also a microcosm of human growth. Facing the test of family, friendship and love, no matter what, as long as you have the courage to chase, you will see the day the rainbow descends.
