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Happiness

  • 2017
  • 5m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
2.4K
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Happiness (2017)
AnimationDramaShort

An analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment.An analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment.An analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment.

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    • Steve Cutts
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    2.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steve Cutts
    • 16User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins total

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    10injury-65447

    Masterpiece

    Perfectly conveys the intended message. A thing of beauty with stunningly detailed visuals and an appropriately sweeping score. I loved the medicated fantasy scene!
    7logicproreviews

    This is a capitalist/commodified head bang!

    Where to start? Well, first off this is what my daily commute to work is like. A literal rat race,the only difference in this animated short is that the rats don't use smartphones as much as us humans.

    We see them (the rats) waiting for the train at the tube station - that was very true to life, comical in fact. A tin of sardines pulls up; one sardine falls out, another squeezes its way inside.

    There are advertisements everywhere - in your face. Buy, buy, buy, commodity, commodity, commodity. Eat that burger - you know you want it but don't need it. Buy happiness, it's everywhere. Unless it's sold out at the local multiplex.

    We've all been there.

    Everything here begs the question... is this rat race carefully controlled by the upper echelons, slowly turning the cogs and warping our little brains? It is a scary fact and one that tempted me to turn this off early especially during the Black Friday sequence. Ahh!

    The animations are fantastic and the choice of music lends to a sickly soundtrack.

    Take from this what you will but be warned you might not like the stark dose of reality that Happiness delivers!
    10mihai_chindris

    Paradisio

    It's the most stunning short I've ever seen. Never thought that I would see something that would stalk with me for so long. Pretty much everyone I know has seen it. It's a marvelous little masterpiece that condences in a few minutes the "glorious" modern lifestyle of humankind. We've reached a point in time when we're so full hatred to one another, so depressed, so... unhappy. We can only imagine of a perfect society or so called utopia, but the current "state of the world" still has some work to do to change trajectory and find viable solutions for future generations to come.
    8sreeragmeppadath

    Wow

    So much symbolic and meaningfull.Portrays present world with increasing population and thirst for money
    Whythishappens

    Here, sample A...

    Isn't it ironic that it barely takes two, exactly two reviews in fact, to already get a sample of the 'rat' symbol here. Talking about going against the establishment, who, the one who claims elite in gilded form? Some people, I say, can't even tell the ironic context of their own quote. Identical to the lemmings in Steve's other film, just leading them all to their own cultist doom...

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      Written by Georges Bizet

      Performed by Kevin MacLeod

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    • Release date
      • November 24, 2017 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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      • Счастье
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