2005 · animation · sci-fi
The Meaning of Life
Directed by Don Hertzfeldt12m2005
Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.
Our read: The Meaning of Life (2005) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal animation · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle animation / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- brisk
- gentle
- surreal
- twisty
- signature
- epic-stakes
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