If there is anything that can succinctly sum up human history, then the short animated film Cuties does the job pretty well. It's five minutes long and it was animated by Theo W. Scott. It starts with the origins of human life, and we then follow the main character of the film depicted by a white, roundish person who goes back through time to all the representations of different eras in human history.
It's wonderfully animated, with no dialogue, but the images and scenes shown through this montage can make you feel squeamish and confused. But that is exactly what we might feel when we try to look at human history. We know the major events that happened in the past, but looking through the details is messy and bloody, and once we get to the end, we feel more perplexed than when we began.
The film also tried to project into the future, with everything collapsing into a black hole. In the end, no matter how far we've come through history, there are still things that remain the same. -from Cartoon Brew
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