Historia de un oso

I really liked this short animation it was cute and entertaining I also liked the animation in this it was very well animated I would recommend this short film to anyone it deserved the Oscar for best animated short film.

A bear, living in a world of bears, shows a nickelodeon kind of show, using mechanical characters, to a little bear child. It is obviously the story of his life and hard times. At some time in the past, he and other animals have been taken to a circus where they are forced to humiliate themselves in front of paying customers. They are treated cruelly and beaten at times. But he has the memory of his family to drive him onward. This gives us a view of the cruelty that we foist on others time and again. The animation is superb.

I am not surprised that this film is winning so many awards. Beautifully animated and seamlessly structured, it works as a solid story for both children and adults. It is very enjoyable as a tale of a bear struggling to reunite with his wife and son. But darker themes lace the story - paralleling real world state brutality, animal abuse, and capitalistic exploitation - as do elements of love, loss, and the unconquerable human (or bear) spirit.

If the author of Wicked decided to make a silent animated short film with the brilliant minds over at Pixar, they would probably make something as wonderful as Bear Story.

Historia de un oso (2014)

*** (out of 4)

Good animated short from Chilean filmmaker Gabriel Osorio Vargas about an elderly bear who tells his life story with the help of a mechanical diorama.

HISTORIA DE UN OSO, also known as BEAR STORY, was one of five animated shorts that received an Oscar nomination and it's easy to see why so many people have fallen in love with the film. I'm not going to say I loved it because I honestly didn't but I could see why so many people did. The animation itself isn't the greatest out there but for the most part I found the story to be quite touching and it's certainly a unique way to tell a story.

This beautiful film likely emerged from the shadows of the atrocities Chile's Augusto Pinochet meted out on his own citizens. The nested narratives include mechanized henchmen, innocent victims, stars (likely representing the souls of the disappeared), and a longing for a wholeness that is forever lost. I use this film in teaching sessions and have watched it many times; I seem something new and surprising with every viewing.