{"id":17835,"date":"2012-02-06T15:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=17835"},"modified":"2012-02-06T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T01:42:38","slug":"cadaver-jonah-ansell-2012-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=17835","title":{"rendered":"Cadaver (Jonah Ansell 2012) : USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=1948\">Bethany Burns<\/a>. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Arlington Theater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Unknown2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17836\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Unknown2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"250\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poetic and beautifully abstract this animated short film offers a perspective on death which embraces optimism even after all seems lost. This 2D animated film was written and directed by Jonah D Ansell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As cold as I found him so I will leave him.<\/p>\n<p>My heart goes out to his if only I could replace it with my own so that he may have a last chance to say goodbye to those he loves.<\/p>\n<p>To cut out ones heart seems to me as though I am stealing what never belonged to me.<\/p>\n<p>I will leave it to her. My partner in this crime.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! What&#8217;s this!? He lives without his heart! With only the desire to see his love one last time.<\/p>\n<p>I will take him, we will make this journey together. He must love her if he can live to see her with his heart cut out of his chest.<\/p>\n<p>I will wait, for he will see what he never saw in life he can only know now in death.<\/p>\n<p>She loves another. Friends in life, lovers in the sorrow amidst death.<\/p>\n<p>How can his heart be broken when it has left his chest once against his own will.<\/p>\n<p>Returning now to this cold dark room.<\/p>\n<p>To relinquish his heart to the depths of this empty glass jar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before you go&#8221; whispers a soft gentle voice.<\/p>\n<p>He turns to her and smiles. She is so \u00a0beautiful in her white robe and pale wrinkled skin.<\/p>\n<p>Together they lie. Cold \u00a0hearts intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>Even in death, love is still alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review by Bethany Burns. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Arlington Theater. Poetic and beautifully abstract this animated short film offers a perspective on death which embraces optimism even after all seems lost. This 2D animated film was written and directed by Jonah D Ansell. &nbsp; &nbsp; As cold as I found him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}