Hmm...interesting! What a wonderful little work of dark fantasy art. I just love everything there is to see and breathe in, it's all so spooky and sad, and the haunting wistful song matches the phantasmagorical cold imagery perfectly. This short may indeed be very short, but it has strange beauty and a great profoundness to it that I found quite brilliant. When I first saw them, I found this and all the other Stille Nachts to be some of the most soul-stirring animations I'd ever seen. This is my favourite of the four. You definitely get your money's worth for the three minutes. Such magicians of their craft, were these Brothers Quay. The humorous anthropomorphic bunny and what is seen of the "girl" instantly brings to mind all of the classic elements of Alice in Wonderland. The tone was absolutely one of darkness but I didn't find it morbid or depressing. It felt more like a lulling, soothing kind of darkness to me. I wonder what it's supposed to mean... Anything? Nothing? Whatever you want it to be? Or just perhaps, it's a window into the mind of some poor terminally damaged soul who for whatever reason, is unwilling, or unable to mature, someone who is not able to put aside childish things and is wholly ignorant of reality hammering to be let in-someone who is so very tired that they desire nothing more than to sleep forever and disappear into nothingness... -Oh my! Might come off as a little maudlin, but that's how I opted to deduce things. I love the beautiful final image of the eyes that so heavily close that are clearly not the eyes of a child. There's such finality there. It's like it's saying: it's time to rest, to drift, to fall, down into the shadows...where you belong.
