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Great Film overall

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I cannot describe how much I am amused by this short film. Also, this film gives me a practical lesson how up and down are properly arranged for optimum effects. A young alien, who seems like a freshman, tries to practice abducting human by the spaceship technology under the supervision of a predecessor, which is not going smoothly at all. Many funny moments are brought by the continuous failure. For instance, after a sequence of struggling, he gets impatient and flicks switches randomly on the spacecraft control panel, causing the sleeping man to crash into walls, ceilings, trees... Finally he gets the man out of window, but he dropped the man again. Then the up comes. His predecessor steps in, fixing everything in house in order and putting the human back to bed. Instead of taking over the control of panel, the predecessor gives him another chance. The young freshman manages to drop the whole spaceship on the human's house, before flying off. The scream from the abductee in the end gives me a last surprise, which is the point of this film I especially like.Pixar short films are well known by the way it handles characters. The protagonist's expressive face and his predecessor's poker face intensify the amusement in a contrary way. Lifted is a great film for laughter, but it might fail in building vivid characters. After finish watching the film, audiences should have had emotional connection to the character, but audiences of Lifted might rarely think about the background or off-scene stories of either the clumsy freshman or the skilled predecessor. They are just there for entertainment.

Animation is my weakness. To me, it is easier to get envolved with the story when real people do not take part in it (acting). The story is simple; a young alien comes to Earth to take his "abduction exam", as if it was a "driver license exam", and things don't go very well during the exam. As many other PIXAR SHORT FILMS, the purpose of Lifted is to make the audience laugh. Well, I laughed.. And the nicest thing is that even though you can figure what is going to happen next during the whole time, you end up laughing. I may be terribly wrong, but my impression is that one of the reasons for such thing is the usage of sounds; every sound just fits perfectly with each scene.

I learned a lot from this short movie. Especially, the greatest point of this is that is a silent film. There is no dialogue that we can understand. There is only sound effects. So, people regardless of age or gender can enjoy each scene. Moreover even hearing-impaired people can easily understand the whole story. In this movie, failure is explored. However we can know that making mistakes is not bad. Pixar change the mistakes from the idea of being bad things to idea of being funny things. Pixar never forget the humor in making movies from the beginning to the end. This short movie also consists of the funny beginning and end. I think the beginning is the most important for movies because audience may stop watching if the beginning is boring. I also think if the audience thought that they want to watch more, it means the movie was successful. Pixar including Lifted taught me such things.

This film is one of works of PIXAR by Disney. I thought this is science-fiction movie at first, because UFO appears in farmland. However, in fact this is a heartwarming story of an alien. One night a farmer's room becomes veiled in blue light. A farmer is sleeping. His body floats in midair and goes to window. He seems to be kidnapped. However, his head hits a wall. A small green alien tries to move the farmer by control board. He bashes the farmer's body against the wall or the ceiling or the floor by mistake. The big green alien who is the small green alien's boss stares at his manipulation. The small alien can't manage it, but he regains confidence in the end. I think this movie is merger between complication and resolution. The small alien fails many times on route, but he recover his confidence the end of the movie. So this film is the most important work of complication and resolution.