7/10
Short Stuff
6 July 2005
I spent a long time thinking what could I write about this cinematographic event I had watched; a short. I thought to myself: I'll make it short. Whether I make it shot or not, it will take for you less time to read it than the time the actual short takes: 23 minutes.

This short is "Harvie Krumpet", the story of a retarded boy, who travels through the world in life, and has many problems, but also a family who he raises like his parents raised him. "Life is like a cigarette…Smoke it up", is one of the "fakts" Harvie discovers at some point of his life. Yes, I know it is not well written but Harvie's mother was some kind of aborigine.

Adam Elliot, "the man" and the owner of a creative mind must have come up with a complete one person life at some point of his career, after creating stories of different members of families in even shorter duration time. His trilogy "Uncle", "Cousin" and "Brother" is the lives of these three different family members.

As I know "Harvie Krumpet" is the only thing I've seen and believe I'll see from this writer and director; and is important to say he respects his way of making films and that he kept it in his road to the Oscar. He doesn't seem to like character talking that much, so as he did with one person in the first trilogy with each family member, he gets a nice and warm voice to tell the story of his character, Harvie Krumpet here.

Although in this short some characters were allowed to speak some words, the voice chosen was the respected and known Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who gives a special touch to the film that is written, directed and with cinematography by Elliot, who can now take in editors and mixers, because before he had to do it by himself.

It is a good short and the Oscar for best animated short, it won. I hope I was short enough.
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