A Short Story (2022)
| director: | Bi Gan |
| release-year: | 2022 |
| genres: | fantasy, short |
| countries: | China |
| languages: | Mandarin, Chinese |
A very strange little narration about a black cat who asks a scarecrow what the most precious thing in the world is, and then sets it on fire.
The cat, portrayed as a bundle of waddling scarecrow clothes in a hat, goes to visit the three wise creatures: a candy-dispensing robot with discharged batteries, a depressed woman eating noodles-of-forgetfulness, and a backwards-filmed magician demon dispensing balls of dirt.
The cat also meets a little girl, who plucks a flower from the cat's ball of dirt.
A pleasantly entertaining poetic jumble of words. Maybe it makes more sense in Mandarin?
