Is This Our Future?
Kenya Anand
This animated short film, “Short Fuse,” animated by The Short Fuse Team, gives an interesting perspective on the future of the world. Within the 7 minute and 9 second run-time, it tells a creative, futuristic story.
“Short Fuse” is a short film about a “scavenger” who had stayed on Earth after occaisonal toxic storms appeared. Most people chose to escape from Earth, leaving many scraps behind, which those who stayed used to survive.
A boy named Bob goes through the scraps and find something that he hadn’t seen before. It was called a “cleanbot” and it was left behind on Earth; though when Bob takes it home, he finds it to be quite a nuisance.
The animations were beautiful, especially considered the film, “Short Fuse”, had been created by students. The ending, however, was somewhat forseeable; it was a bit cliché. The storyline wasn’t anything super special, and seemed to be a tiny bit dragged on.
Nontheless, the director, Rafanan Michael Robert Uy, did an outstanding job with the film.