In a Heartbeat is trash!
It's a short film that I actually had expectations for,
but slowly realized that anything mainstream will just let me down nowadays.
Before anyone says that I dislike it simply because I'm homophobic,
I'm not.
I don't hate gay people, and actually know a couple gay people myself.
To give context into one of my issues with the film, gay people have it kinda hard.
According to PewResearch, 32% of Americans oppose homosexuality.
This is a pretty big number making up 1 in 3 Americans.
I don't know if I'm reading it wrong but bejesus!
An issue I have with the film was the original conflict.
It was a person vs society, but then they just brush it off.
Here he is in an environment that's against him being gay,
and they just leave it there without catharsis.
When the lovers go back into the school after everything, they'll still be bullied and hated.
You'd expect them to carry a message like,
"At least 62% of Americans are in favor of your homosexuality!"
But no!
Not only is there no catharsis, but there's laziness involved.
Why did they have the conflict of a person vs society?
So they could send the love interest off to console our big boi
and then return his love.
To repair his heart, and finally confess.
That conflict wasn't there to be a block he had to jump over in his life,
but instead a plot device for the love interest and the big boi to get closer.
One of my biggest issues was how people saw it as sad for the big boi with the heartbreak,
but honestly, I don't see why he was so affected.
What he had was a kiddie love.
A crush.
This, as we can see, is infatuation and less of actual love.
He didn't know the guy, he didn't like his personality, and there was no other reason into liking him
other than his appearances.
He, the brains, didn't want to confess to the boy regardless of his heart wanting to.
This was because he was perfectly content with just seeing him and continuing to crush.
This sort of crush is something some people can relate to,
they're fine with just looking at them, but not actually making a relationship because you don't know them.
Later in life, you may even think to yourself,
"why did I even like this person?
They were kinda ugly too."
So, if you were put into this situation, and your crush didn't accept your heart,
why would you be heartbroken?
There's no reason for him to feel that way.
It was forced into the short film to simply appear to have a problem.
Which is solved quickly in a minute and twenty-eight seconds.
No time has passed since him leaving the building, and his crush going to comfort him.
And if there was, then it was badly portrayed.
Well it's a short film, of course the problem would be solved in little time.
So, where could they have cut the time down
and have added the time back up in these things that I just mentioned?
The time that our big boi's messing around with his heart.
People liked the tomfoolery of the heart and our big boi struggling to contain it,
I thought it was the only good part of it.
It was fun seeing him run over the place and be animated and ecstatic
over something that seemed trivial to us.
The whole 'you can't control your heart' metaphor has been overdone,
but it was kinda fun to watch for like 15 seconds.
It didn't make you gain attachment to anyone, especially the heart,
but it was silly and sorta reminded me of the classic visual comedy from Tom and Jerry.
My only problem with the metaphor was that it took up like half of its runtime.
The animators could've cut down their year and half of work for better exposition on the love.
The pacing was too slow and didn't make you grow any attachment,
making it rather useless.
I counted the time: it took a minute and fifty-five seconds.
Almost two minutes of him chasing his heart.
ALMOST TWO MINUTES OF HIM CHASING HIS HEART.
The animation was nice.
It reminded me of the cartoony Pixar films,
and is an extremely impressive feat for only two animators.
At times, you can see how expressive the characters were.
And there were subtle things that expressed lots
such as when the big boi retracts his hand away from his crushes.
Aside from these two minor things, the issues were much more major.
It was only popular because it was gay, but being gay doesn't mean it's good.
The love was superficial, the conflict wasn't a conflict but a plot device for love,
there was no real catharsis to the story,
the pacing was off with the heart-chasing,
and the alleged conflict is resolved in very little time.
For a short film, it should hit an emotion,
but I had already showed how it was forced, so I didn't get any of that.
It was trash and I hope all you plebs get better taste.
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