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Thanks for showing me that. I am happy to have seen it and now also mad because I feel so sad! It was beautiful.
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quote: It's probably best to think of the sound at the end as a "thump" rather than a "splat." It's somewhat less traumatic that way.
I'm not so sure, I think the the sound at the end is more like a parachute opening than a "splat" of "thump". Actualy, I think this ambiguity, that you don't see the impact or parachute opening, you just hear the sound, goes a long way to making the film as evocative as it is.
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Nevermind, I suppose that could be ambiguous, too; my dad cries when he, like, sings "It's a Small World," he cries at everything. (And when I'm hormonal I'm not much better.)
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quote: (I guess it would be mean to mention that he's not wearing a parachute, though, huh.)
Was he carrying a hammer and nails? (Wow, Tinros beat me by a good 10 minutes. I need to start refreshing my browser before posting...)
I guess I just prefer to think that a kiwi bird that is able to cover the face of a cliff with horizontally oriented trees is also able to use a parachute.
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This video is spreading like wildfire across my campus, friends and family. I want to nominate it for some sort of award.
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He has no wings. He couldn't take it any more. He found a way where he could feel like he was flying, and it was worth dying to him to be able to feel that, if only for a moment.
Those tears were bittersweet.
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Didn't seem bittersweet to me, although it felt that way for us. Those looked like tears of pure joy to me.
He knew what the end would be, but he felt it was worth it to feel alive and realize his dream of flying.
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Oh, I dunno. A cat's terminal velocity is low enough that they quite often survive falls out of skyscrapers with comparatively minor injuries; if they fall from high enough. There is a midrange height from which cats don't fare too well. The vets studying the problem think its because that after a certain amount of time falling, the cats relax into a body position that minimizes their terminal velocity.
eg A skydiver can modify his terminal velocity from ~100mph/~160kph to ~250/400kph simply through adjusting his body position. Cats have a much lower body weight to surface ratio, so have a slower terminal velocity range. By the time ya get to the size of rats, they essentially can't be injured through a fall&landing itself, at least not without really bad luck inregard to the landing.
An average kiwi's weight is about half of that of an average cat, so the weight to surface area ratio is lower and the kiwi's terminal velocity is lower. So even if it were real rather than a cartoon, the kiwi would probably walk away with at worst a minor injury and little else beyond "WOW!!! That was a RUSH! Gotta do it again."
BTW: Here's a "rescue" of a "poor kitty" from the top of ?30foot/10meter? telephone pole. To avoid capture, the cat leaps clean across the street to a landing on a concrete sidewalk, then just scurries away.
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From an interview with the creator (Found here, and is fairly well done).
quote:Jordan: At the end of "Kiwi!", we hear a thud as Kiwi assumingly hits the ground. Did you contemplate not including this in the finished movie?
Dony: "Yes, of course. I had many people telling me to end it differently, like give him a parachute, or have him fall in a pond. But I didn't want it wrapped up that tightly. And I think that's what happy endings do - they take care of everything [at the end] with the emotion! I wanted to leave it open and a bit unsettling. But then again some people may see it as an ending."
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The pinata one was weird, but made sense. I liked it, although not in the same way I liked the kiwi one.
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