So far so good. I think.

[andrewducker]

[Poll #867514]

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

The ending is BOTH! It is happy because he got his heart's desire (flight) but sad because of the thump at the end. Bittersweet, don't you know?

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was about to say.

Definitely bittersweet.

[ahsirakh.livejournal.com]

As with much great art, the answer to your question is "Both."

[kellibunny.livejournal.com]

i'm already of puddle of tears today, so it's sad. But very cute too.

[andrewducker]

I'm sorry you're a puddle of tears today. And I hope there is much cuteness in your future.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Odd that I'm the only person who's said 'happy' so far. Perhaps it proves how much music effects how we percieve things-this computer has no speakers, so I probably missed out on a whole dimension of thingy by watching in silence...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

You missed a big "thud" at the end. He felt the magic of flight but he was hurtling towards the ground.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. That is quite sad :-(

[angelevie.livejournal.com]

I too think it was happy

he flew!!

:D

[adders.livejournal.com]

Another vote for "both" (this was a quiz for tick boxes, not radio buttons)

Dial-up

[rab-the-ex-chef.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be able to give you an opinion, but dial-up means it'll take 35 mins for that to load, so I'll be forever in the dark :(

Let me pose my own question

[alpha-c3ntaur.livejournal.com]

Happy he flew
Sad He's got to hit the ground.

Now for the question?

Is it better to live your life safely on the ground or to realise your hearts desire and fly just once?

Re: Let me pose my own question

[ninox.livejournal.com]

He hid the hammer - there may off been a parachute or a really kind animator.

But in answer to your question sometimes it is the desire rather than fulfillment that's the thing!

Re: Let me pose my own question

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

Safe on the ground when you've got the responsibility of others depending on you. After I'm done with the child rearing bit.. no telling what I'm apt to take on.

Off hand, I can't think of a single thing that is a heart's desire that I still have left to accomplish, though.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

It's happy, but it made me cry (twice)

[dpadoftao.livejournal.com]

Depends, but for a different reason. When I first saw the video, I interpreted the 'thump' as just landing on a tree -I 'read' the focus on how the kiwi nailed the tree as both explaining the forest of sorts later on, and also as signifying that that was what he landed on to cushion his fall. It wasn't until reading a comment afterwards that I realized that it

[dpadoftao.livejournal.com]

oops. that it was the kiwi's death.

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

"Death"? You're all forgetting. He's animated and therefore bound only by the cartoon laws of physics. Those of you that have attended Acme Loo will already be aware that on reaching the bottom, he will simply drive a kiwi-shaped hole into the ground, climb out just in time for all those trees to come un-nailed and land on top of him.

Once he's climbed free of the foliage and the comically large bump on his head has subsided, he'll nail them back up and do it again.

And anyone who says otherwise LA LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING LA LA

[moniqueleigh]

I have no idea how accurate this is, but I was told that kiwis are light enough & have a drag coefficient such that the fall wouldn't hurt them. Supposedly, they bounce. Oooo!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Well it made me cry..

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Another vote for "both". Nice little piece, though.