CRADLE | Omeleto Animation
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2019
- A veteran soldier battles phantom pains and memories of a pre-war life.
CRADLE is used with permission from Devon Manney. Learn more at devonmanney.com.
A young military veteran, Will, returns home after a stint overseas, having lost both arms during his tour. He's come home to his wife Rachel, but home feels strange -- the place feels different, and he also has a new baby, Amelia.
But the transition isn't easy, as he grapples phantom pain in his limbs, learning to use prosthetics and adjusting to his new life while trying to cope with his pre-war memories. Will grows increasingly isolated and full of despair, but through reconnecting with his loved ones and learning to accept his past and embrace his future, he finds his way.
Writer-director Devon Manney's Student Academy Award-winning animated drama is a sensitive and introspective immersion into the difficult transition many veterans make after returning home. Many of them try to equalize towards a new normal, and must grapple with trying to "catch up" to a life that has gone on in their absence. But their psyches -- and very often their bodies -- also have been reshaped during their time away, making the adjustment even more difficult.
Will's journey is steadily and gently delineated in the storytelling, each beat focused on his feelings of discombulation, struggle and emotional isolation. Will literally wants to reach out -- and in one scene, he wants to pick up his young daughter -- but the phantom pain he experiences is a significant barrier to overcome, forcing a wedge between himself and the people around him.
This phantom pain is economically yet powerfully rendered in the film's animation, making Will's inner experience visual and electric. In this sense, animation is the perfect medium to convey subjective and psychological experience, making the inner intrusions of Will's phantom pains into a palpable, outer-facing force that exerts itself, much to Will's detriment.
The visuals themselves have an elegant and evocating simplicity, paring down Will's story to its essentials and drawing powerful focus on the veteran's emotional experience. Combined with the relative realism of the sound design -- interpolated with electrical noise for Will's pain and well-placed use of a beautifully emotional score -- the result is a resonant, emotionally powerful experience that gets to the heart of Will's journey as he struggles to accept his new self, body and life, and find beauty and connection once again.
CRADLE -- which was also shortlisted for the Best Animated Short Oscar in 2017 -- is a showcase for animation's unique gifts as a medium, with its ability to engage the eye and evoke feeling and emotion with focus and economy, and the film's somber yet gentle style establishes the story's tone and approach to Will's story.
With empathy and compassion, the film offers a unique intimate look at what is often an alienating experience. But as Will eventually makes it to the other side, the ending is subtle, well-earned and resonant, because the audience knows just how much Will and veterans like him have struggled -- and how much seemingly small victories can feel like huge triumphs in the face of pain and suffering. 
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I love how encouraging the wife is
The people that disliked this video heartless. The animation is awesome, and it’s a very good story.
Gray, this one is deeply emotional. some people don't handle these kinds of emotions well, and prefer to feel nothing at all.
Nah they’re just in Australia.
omg the ending when he was holding the baby was so sweet
Hats off...
Respect to the soldiers..
I got my leg amputated and this is spot on, however, the nicotine keeps the pain down now I even got off the morphine, now I just need to get off the nicotine hahahaha.
Pain for me felt like sandpaper grinding on the inside of my limb that didn't exist, in case your wondering 😬, but that was also just my experience
@@lambinilattso4528 wow are you alright!?
Atleast I'm able to admit I'm crying
Baghdad...the place I live in...pure hell in the past and in the present..protesters are everywhere.
"phantom pains"
SNAKEEEEEEEEEEEEE
...right in the feels *sniff*
Beautiful ❤❤ I cried a little
such a great storytelling! Thanks for sharing
I cried through most of this because it’s me.
THAT WAS A GOOD ONE, MY WIFE AND I SAY; "BRAVO"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the people who disliked the video are heartless
Damn I not crying
Omeleto, why you tryna make me cry ?
Gosh this is beautiful.. made me cry.
i cried
That was amazing
crying. haha. beautiful story.
Amazing
Loved it!!!
Lovely film :)
Very interesting.
Liked it, but bit confused on how he lost both arms, maybe 2 Grenades were thrown at his sides, or bullet wounds. The animation is well played out with his flashbacks and how he is feeling and the conclusion is also well
I was thinking they got crushed or mangled.
Run over, or something fell on them (like 2 tons of cement). Also, 1 grenade would kill you if you were in within like 10 feet
One grenade can take both, same with an IED.
Grass Dungeon you can survive a grenade within 10 feet. One example would be Corporal Kyle Carpenter.
Thank you. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲