Pale Cocoon displays, in twenty-two minutes, everything that is beautifully crushing about space and the past. The music is perfectly matched to the immense, gothic scenery, and the discovered record of a J-pop song is wistfully optimistic, like a doomed butterfly. The characterization here is simple without being simplistic, leaving much unsaid, yet communicating in subtleties. Pale Cocoon is deep, emotional, noble, pure, and at the end, ruefully ironic.
This short animated film is set in the not-so-distant future, where the earth has suffered a population explosion, necessitating escape. Honestly, that old Malthusian saw is the only weak point of the entire movie, but if you can suspend your disbelief over it (and it’s not really that important; it’s just the disaster that set things in motion), you’ll be home free. To say much of the plot would be to reveal too much, but the main characters work in the middle levels of an artificial world, recovering and restoring archives of the past.
Zero profanities, no gore, no sex, and positive mention of prayer.
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