Fuelled | Animated Short Film 2021
10,166,733
Published 2021-12-01
Sheridan college 2021
Group mentor || Jason Par
Original music by || Sebastian Reuten
Special thanks
▪ Yingzhong Hu
▪ Celina Liu
▪ Alex Deadman - wylie
▪ Rebecca Deresse
© KilledtheCat Productions
▪ Michelle Hao
▪ Fawn Chan
▪ Subin Jang
▪ Starlyn Lu
▪ Younghak Jang
▪ Jisoo Kim
▪ Georgia Quinn
▪ Emily Xu
▪ Eido Hayashi
▪ Daniel Blake
▪ Catherine Ivanhoff
▪ Aroona Khiani
All Comments (21)
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The moment where she was dripping with blood and excitement just trying to find this killer for her husband, and looking up to see not the criminal eyes, but her own really just crushed me.
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A detail lots of people have missed is that a 1:01 it’s actually written that it was at first a robbery that escalated to a murder that happened in her house. This increase the impact when you realize she also tried to steal fuel and killed someone in the process. She truly turned like her own monster.
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I adore how we see every memory from a third person perspective but it turns first person after she sees her reflection and realizes what she’s doing.
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What gets me the most is that at 5:20 she sees the dead or dying gas station worker and yet it doesn’t even register to her because she is so obsessed with getting the fuel for her car. Genuinely chilling when I first noticed.
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just noticed this, but i love how her flashbacks at first are like her being disassociated from her own body. she’s not seeing it exactly how she saw it while it happened, she’s watching as a third person, but then when she realizes the mistakes she had just made, her flashbacks are seen in first person. she’s back in her own body, seeing through her own eyes.
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4:20 I love how instead of her pupil becoming small and a stripe like they usually do in animations and other medias, her's became big and round, as when a cat is preparing to attack. More realistic in this aspect.
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The scene where she breaks down and realizes she's become the very monster she's been ready to torment for so long never fails to leave me crying.
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The little kiss on her forehead when they were dancing absolutely shattered me
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i love how it almost takes her a second to process that she isn't looking into the eyes of the police sketch anymore, those are her eyes. the pause on that shot shows us so much of what she's feeling. she is so manic that she can't even recognize her own eyes for a moment, she just wants to stare into the eyes of the killer as a sign of triumph and pure revengeful rebellion, but as she does, she realizes how similar they look.
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As someone with ptsd, nothing is scarier than seeing similarities between yourself and your abuser. The mirror scene illustrated that really beautifully
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6:26 The way the light just fades away in her husband's eyes, it really shows the life had left his eyes literally. Such small details like that is absolutely my favorite and it makes this moment all the more sad and tragic.
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To me, the most emotional part was her, looking at what she had done at the end. The way she just kneels down. The gas station owner probably had someone who loved him too. And she inflicted the same pain on his loved one. I rewatched it and one awesome detail was that there's a no smoking sign, right above his head as he's looking at her. At first I thought he kind of caused this on himself but she literally attacks him with a sharp object.
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I love how she didn’t even get time to grieve when he died, she immediately sought out revenge and that was all she could think of until she saw her reflection in the mirror and seen she had become the thing she was trying to get revenge on, then the grief hits her.
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I like how all the memories are shown in third person perspective; up until the point she sees her eyes and realizes what shes doing. Like she'd been disconnecting herself from reality so she could be brave enough to act with cruelty, and it resulted in tragedy. Just like the robber who killed her husband.
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i always thought the sentence "their heart sank" was just silly. But this animation genuinely made my heart pull down.
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日本語で紹介されていたショートから来ました。 アニメーションのかわいさが悲劇の残酷さをより引き立てていて切なくて素晴らしかったです。
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It’s a small detail but I absolutely love how the cat’s whiskers are shown as neat/straight in her flashbacks, but after her husband is killed her whiskers become messy and wavy.
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I think that this film captures "grief is just love with nowhere to go" perfectly. Absolutely incredible.
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it’s the fact that she realises that she’s becoming the monster in the end which has me sobbing my eyes out
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This is why I'm always impressed with short films. Even if the film is less than 15 minutes, they can always tell a compelling story and narrative.
