I'll tell you why so serious

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Excellent but underrated film

Boring

This movie evidently gets a lot of people very angry. If you are easily frustrated or easily angered by something as simple as a little 10 minute movie, you're probably one of those people who orders stuff on amazon and then checks the order's status every 15 minutes. Relax. Yes, it repeats exactly, and a little editing might have helped. But that's the point - you are supposed to feel uneasy repeating everything exactly, and getting nowhere new. Seeing the same footage again, I looked out for other details - the movie is full of cool details that others have pointed out.I'm not sure what to make of the bum sitting by the subway. My feeling is that he calls attention to his new shoes because he is not caught in the rat race, and hasn't worn them out. Or maybe Amazon needed another product placement. I couldn't make out much of what he said.But take off that watch and relax.

For all of you users that are confused by the movie, it is interactive. You can click on the movie at the right time and it changes, breaking the loop.For those of you who got so mad, either at the editing, the product placement, the 'pointless' theme, etc..... Hey, just take off your watch....I need to add some more text to this post so it will accept this. It is too bad I have to resort to this type of silly workaround to make a simple point about the movie, one which I hope will help others see it a little differently.There, I hope that is enough to keep the IMDb gods happy....Scott

What a fantastic short! I would not have picked up on Dr. Awkward being a palindrome without the help of other reviewers, so I wanted to add some thoughts to the theme as well. Did anybody notice that the shoulder bag strap that the human/rat wears is labeled with the infinity sign? That's when it occurred to me that the character isn't being referred to box 181, it's a call to return the character to the same struggle, over and over again, for infinity - the infinity sign is in between two parallel lines on the box key. Same DVD, same run, same message, and this snatch of time starts over again.What I enjoy about the theme is that the cycle continues only as long as the character lets it continue.There's some really interesting post-modern theology in this short: humanity's view of God, of time, of the "important" things in life.

A simple commentary on the life of a typical person in today's world, those who are running through life and not getting anywhere. Most people simply exist in this world, they do not live their lives to the fullest. His life is directed by something as simple and ridiculous as cartoon characters, symbolic of how simple and ridiculous the things that direct most peoples lives today. The homeless man is symbolic of where that gets you in life, which is old, broken down. The new pair of shoes symbolic of material possessions but what does it really mean when your life is over? The rose seller is of course representative of stopping to enjoy the life you are living.