Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign)

Oh man, that’s disappointing. I was excited to see your article about these films, and I watched them all, but this was probably my least favourite one.

My favourites are the dutch film, Balbezit, the american animation, Papiroflexia, and the romanian film Lecita de Box (The Boxing lesson).

Jaay-Zus wept!! How cheesy can you get? Probably not a lot more than this cheesy piece of cheesacious cheeseness.

I mean, it’s all there: the whiny music, the suit, the sunglasses… the humble beggar, of course… a plot hole the size of Bogotá when Suit magically scribbles something on Humbly’s piece of cardboard in one cut without Beggy Beggar actually questioning what goes on… good thing he’s already blind, though: the cheesy colours would have ruined his eyesight forever anyway. Sadly he’s probably deaf now, too, what with all the cheesy music.

I predict this one’s going to win big. Just the right amount of cheese, artificiality and downright ignorance of anything actually going on in the (so called) real world.

Cheezy or not I LIKED IT!

ditto, hark. the tears were unexpected!

If a study in compassion — freely giving of talent and time that alters someone’s circumstances for the better, instead of taking the easy way out by tossing a coin — is “cheesy”, then I hope that my pantry is someday full of waxed rounds.

I would rather see hundreds of shorts like this than some dark, angst-ridden, self-indulgent piece of “art” that might be a masterpiece of cinema or technical achievement, but as cold and barren as the middle of Antarctica.

“hark” and “Ty” — if you like this, you’d enjoy Chaplin’s “City Lights” a great deal.

I don’t like those over simplistic messages, where they try to make you feel like you can change the world with a witty rephrasing. Fuck that, it’s way more complicated than they want to make believe, It kinda reminds me of the rich ‘hippies’ I knew.