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Monday 15 December 2014

Writing a review: Abducido (Lifted), by Pixar



Lifted is a computer-animated short film, produced by Pixar and directed by Gary Rydstrom in 2006. It was the first short film directed by Gary Rydstrom and the first produced by Katherine Sarafian, who went on to produce Pixar's Brave.
The film was presented on June 29, 2007 and also received a sneak peek at The 42nd Chicago International Film Festival.

The action doesn't take place in a specific location. Everything happens in a deserted field, in a house where the main protagonist lives.
This short explains the story of a young alien who's inside a spaceship and has to do an exam of alien abduction. The alien has to achieve get the human out of his house, controlling thousands of buttons of a board. He starts pushing lots of buttons but nothing happens until he realizes and he should look at the instruction manual. After a while he pushes the right button, and at the exact last moment he stops pushing the device. The examinator, seeing that disaster, decides to recover the control and he orders everything the alien made a mess of. But when he sees the young alien sad, he thinks letting him happier and he does so. The young alien collapses against a house but the men and his bed remain untouched.

After seeing all the shorts I didn't decide what to do the review, and eventually ended up getting this. I liked a lot. That has made me laugh was the personality of the young alien and the faces that the examiner makes.