On Saturday I went to Meiji-jingu Baseball Stadium to watch a game of Tokyo Yakult Swallows vs Hokkaido Nippon-ham Fighters (the team I love💞)
Though Fighters lost the game, it was fun to watch. I was happy to see my favourite player making a hit. I'm sure he's gonna do great this season.
Summary
A boy lives with his mother and father. He looks out the window to see a girl playing outside everyday but he's too shy to talk with her. One day the girl was crying because her pet bird died. Trying to make her happy, the boy turns the dead bird into a mechanical doll. But when the time came to show it to her, the girl ran away, screaming because she was horrified with the completely changed appearance. Shocked at the girl's behavior, the boy goes back to his house, buries his parents; who were also "repaired" by the boy.
Opinion
I first thought that the family's ways of moving didn't have any reasons, so it was pretty shocking when it turned out that the boy's parents were mechanical dolls. The boy seemed to have trouble getting along with others. Maybe he turned his dead parents into robots because he didn't want to feel lonely. But through the girl's reactions, the boy realized that what he was doing was terrifying, and stops doing it. I thought the last scene means the boy's new step to his life.
Summary
Stanley Pickle, a young man living with his mechanised family, found a girl playing with a bird outside the window. One day, he witnessed the bird's death and that the girl was in sorrow. He tried to cheer her by reviving the bird using his mechanical skills, but unfortunately his favor didn't work. He reflected on his actions, packs his things, and ventures into the forest with determination.
Opinion
I think this story describes how people can't let their past go. I can relate to Stanley, because I often miss those old days and think if only I could go back to the past. I think what was also bad to Stanley was his ability because he could make his old days back by making creatures mechanical dolls. However, what is sarcastic about what Stanley was doing is Stanley had to wind up the machines to get the eternity and Stanley looked feeling annoying about that. I think he wanted to change but there were no chances to change until the girl went away from him.
Summary
The story follows Stanley, an engineering genius that lives in a house situated in the middle of nowhere, with his two “mechanical” parents. In the story, we are shown about his daily life where he wakes up in his child sized bedroom, eats breakfast with his parents, in which seem to be “looping”. We then are introduced to a girl outside of Stanley’s house. Stanley is very shy and tries to talk to her but can not. That is when the girl’s pet bird dies and is buried. Stanley sees this and tries to revive the bird by mechanizing it and giving it to the girl as a gift. She is terrified and runs away. Stanley snaps back to reality and moves on with his life by burring his now broken parents.
Evaluation
I think this story was a very interesting one and gave me a lot of views to what it might mean. The biggest one being that Stanley Pickle is a video for us to reassure ourselves about our future and to let go of what we no longer have. In this case; Stanley’s parents. During the short film, there is no hint of his Parents being mechanical up until the bird surgery scene. It is only then when us as the viewers realize Stanley’s intelligence and sort of wicked sense of love towards his family or “past” family members. I say past because of how his parents being mechanical symbolizes the death of his two former procreators. Stanley seems to not be able to let go of the fact that his family is no longer with him and chooses to keep them in a mechanical limbo state in as if they were alive. It is even more obvious when you look at his room. While he is a grown man, he is sleeping in a kids bedroom and playing with toys or reading books on his bed like a kid in his room. This leads me to speculate that his parents have passed away when Stanley was very young, and at a time where he loved his parents the most. This value of not being able to let go in Stanley is also prominent in the scene where he tries and revive the bird by mechanizing it and giving it to the girl. However, we get to see a state of change and growth in Stanley Pickle as well. When Stanley is rejected of the bird and scares off the girl, he was able to snap back to reality and revalue his love and affection for his family. He chooses to let go of his past he loved dearly, (so much that he forced to continue it) and we are met with a scene with Stanley dancing and running with joy and a sense of relief as if a huge weight on his shoulders were lifted off from him. This message is very important in our daily lives because we as humans, tend to love something so much that we forget the general value they used to have towards said thing and refuse to let go. We refuse to let go of the things we love although holding on to what’s left is what hurts the most and letting go as “it is what it is” and embracing the truth is far better for us.
I didn't know it either until yesterday,(and I didin't know wth is accentuate mean too.) but I am going to teach you how to type accents in the alphabet in windows for people in the same situation as me.
First, press the 半角/全角(Usually it's the top of left) key.
Then hold down the shift key ＆ press the key of the letter you want to accentuate.
Then the predictive conversion appears on the screen and you press the tab key, bang! End.
I hope this helps! :p
SUMMARY
This is a short film about a young man named Stanley who lives alone in his house with only mechanical toys, robots, amd his mechanizeted family. In the middle of the story, he saw a normal girl named Jennifer outside. Stanley wated to know her, but he couldn't feel her feeling. At the end of the story, he followed her, entered the forest with smile.
REACTION
I thoght this is so deep and difficult story . Stanley seems like he just wanted his family to be alive. But once dead, living things do not come back to life. I felt that he wanted to denied it.
In my opinion, the creater of this work wanted us to think about what is lfe more deeply.
Today I went to my high school to help with my old teacher's lessons. I was really happy to see him again, also some of my classmates were there so I had a little conversation with them. Before we left, he offered to have dinner with us sometime. I definitely wanted to have dinner with my friends and my teacher.
Summary
Stanley Pickle is a boy who lives with his parents that "malfunctions" sometimes. One day Stanley sees a girl outside of his house having a fun time with a bird but is too shy to see her face to face. The next day, Stanley peeks out of his window again and sees that the bird has died and is being buried by the girl. Stanley digs up the bird and brings it home to bring it back to life. Stanley manages to revive the bird but the bird scares away the girl. The next day Stanley's parents completely break down and Stanley buries them both. After burying his parents, Stanley happily runs into the woods.
Opinion
I thought that this was an odd film and a little bit unsettling. However, I thought the idea of using humans in a stop-motion film was brilliant and matched the atmosphere of the story. I think the creator of this story wanted to portray Stanley as someone who can't be understood by others but is also a hidden genius. The scene where Stanley performs surgery on the bird makes it look like he is a psychopath, but in reality, he is just trying to make the girl happy again. However, one great point to be discussed is why Stanley runs happily right after he buries his parents. He did look sad in the beginning but it seems like he gets over it in a few moments. I think Stanley created his parents in the first place to get over loneliness. This film needs a lot more explanation to get the full picture, but the mystery makes it very interesting and discussable.
Summary
The scene starts with the main character having breakfast with his parents. While living an ordinary life, he saw a girl playing with her pet bird one day. However, the bird died due to an accident and the girl was crying. He saw her face was full of sadness, it turns out the boy unburied the bird and transformed it into a robot? using a screw roll. When the boy shows the bird to the girl, she runs away from him showing rejection. After that event, he started to think about what he had done, suddenly packed up his stuff, and started down a new path.
Opinion:
This is my first time seeing a stop-motion video using a real person. The main feature of this video is characteres was a doll with a screwdriver. I thought it was a great idea to use stop-motion to present unrealistic movements of humans. The video was uncomfortable in a series of ways, and the boy was terrified when he turned birds and even his own parents into puppets as a mad scientist. In the final scene, he's rejected by her so he can learn about the outside world.
Stanley Pickle lived a mechanical life surrounded by machines including his parents. He hated going outside his mechanical home. One day he saw a girl who was enjoying the natural world outside and he fell in love. He tries to attract her however it doesn't work out as he expected. From that experience, he rethinks about his life and human nature
I thought stop motion was the best way to create robot characters with human actors. In the film, Stanley decides to destroy and bury his parents which was an important choice for him. Since he was literally the GOD of his house he had enough with his life including the false love from his parents. I believe this symbolizes how people change from what there is stick to.
Recently, I have bought a brand new guitar for myself on a four year (loan) contract. I have just payed my very first fee for this guitar and I wanted to share some pictures I just took in my room.
