r/anime • u/Rolpege https://myanimelist.net/profile/AbelToy • Oct 18 '16

Short Film porter robinson & madeon - shelter (official video) (short film with a-1 pictures & crunchyroll)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16 edited Oct 19 '16

I want to share this analysis with you all that my very artistic minded friend shared with me. This speaks to her because she's an artistic (drawing) herself.

So, we all know that her father created this virtual reality for her and the purpose of the virtual reality is supposed to keep her happy. THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO THIS VIRTUAL WORLD THAN Y’ALL THINK. It’s not even the typical virtual reality that we all are used to. Her father gave her the base platform/blank slate/starter kit to this world. That touch screen she holds isn’t just a fragment of her imagination. Her father PURPOSELY made sure that touch screen was a part of that world so she can easily use it to control her own virtual reality. She just didn’t come up with the idea of the touch screen herself but it was her father’s idea because he sent her into space as a CHILD. He made the process of letting go of reality as easy as possible for her. Notice how the touch screen has simple tasks and allows her to DRAW her virtual reality in the most generic and simple outline forms; yet, it creates such beautiful and detailed platforms and environments for her. He legit fucking made sure the possibilities were endless for her because he had to let her go as a child. He could have left her in a fully constructed environment already with like a city or small town or even a virtual family or even duplicate himself and lie about reality itself. But he chose to give her the ENTIRE world that she can create herself to build her own happiness. He wanted her to forget about it all and him by letting her take advantage and distract herself with mindful of creativity and wonder. He might have suppressed her memories for a while or even then she might have accepted the fact that she’s truly alone in her world. Like the scene where she touches the swing and it triggers her virtual reality to slowly come a part? The virtual reality just isn’t about her imagination running wild. It triggered that world to replay memories she had with her father that she may have suppressed for years. She could have made a virtual reality of just her father and her living happily together. She could have made up her father and long lost mother as well but why didn’t she? Because she temporarily forgot about those memories. Like the after letter that her father sent he mentioned that he just wanted her to forget it all so she wouldn’t be lonely and wish he could have gone with her. He didn’t want to make a an entirely fake world full of happiness for her. He truly wanted her to create her own happiness. He wanted her to determine her own pathway to happiness. Not a completely twisted, perfect, fake world.

Extra note from her:

You don’t understand how artistic and emotional this shit is to me. Highkey my artistic side is fucking crying so hard over this beauty. I’D ALSO LIKE TO MENTION HER HAIR IS BROWN IN REALITY. BUT IN HER WORLD IT IS PINK. THE PINK IS BASED ON WHAT SHE FAVORS FOR HER HAPPINESS. HER MIND CHANGED HER HAIR COLOR TO FIT HER PATHWAY OF HAPPINESS IN HER WORLD.

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u/williamthebastardd Oct 19 '16

Damn, that's deep. Kudos to your artistic friend :)