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Das Rad

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Das Rad	comment	Das Rad ("The Wheel"), aka "Rocks", is a 2002 animated short film from Germany, directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, and Heidi Wittlinger.Two sentient rock piles sit on a hilltop somewhere, presumably in Germany, looking down into a valley. They aimlessly chat about minor concerns; the larger rock pile complains about the moss and lichen that grow on his back. Moss and lichen that grow on his back at lightning speed, as it turns out, suddenly reappearing after the larger pile scrapes them off. Trees shoot up out of the ground almost instantly, while the grass and moss on the ground waxes and wanes like tide on a beach. When the smaller rock pile picks up a wooden wheel, it crumbles into dust as he looks at it.It soon becomes obvious that the story is being told in geologic time, the "lifespan" of a rock, with presumably tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years passing in moments as the two rock piles sit and chat. The time frame slows down radically on a couple of occasions, however, when members of short-lived life form Homo sapiens stop near by the rocks.Can be watched here, with English subtitles.
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Das Rad / int_2de02182	type	Visual Title Drop
Das Rad / int_2de02182	comment	Visual Title Drop: One of the rocks picks up a wagon wheel, which crumbles into dust even as he admires it. Symbolic of the We Are as Mayflies nature of humanity and our achievements.
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Das Rad / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Das Rad / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Not that the rocks have any reason to care. But something caused the end of the human race, as the grand city that rises up in the valley collapses away to nothingness. Even the road has once again become covered by overgrowth.
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Das Rad / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Das Rad / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident What caused the destruction of humanity? The rocks don't know and neither do we. But they're relieved that the blur of activity that caused the roads and buildings to advance right up to them has ceased. What was the light shining out of the skyscraper window? A last survivor, signaling for other humans?
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Das Rad / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Das Rad / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: The brief, transitory existence of human beings stands in dramatic contrast to the timelessness of the rocks.
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Das Rad / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Das Rad / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Four parts: the two rock buddies, a third rock being on the next hill that they like to antagonize, and a man pulling what looks to be like a medieval wooden cart.
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Das Rad / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Das Rad / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The rocks will be there forever. They were there before humans, and they are there after we're all gone.
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Das Rad / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Das Rad / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: The smaller pile of rocks toys with a disc-shaped stone. Then time slows down to human speed to show a prehistoric man, who sees the stone disc lying next to a pile of rocks, and gets an idea—the invention of the wheel.
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Das Rad / int_a73cfb7f	type	Animate Inanimate Object
Das Rad / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: Two talking, sentient piles of rocks.
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Das Rad / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Das Rad / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The billboard that's posted on the road right next to the rocks tumbles down into the dirt. The message on the billboard was "built to last".
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Das Rad / int_c3743565	type	Time Dissonance
Das Rad / int_c3743565	comment	Time Dissonance: The rocks experience time on a different scale. For them, all activity of living things is blindingly fast, with trees popping up out of nowhere and human activity being an incomprehensible blur. On the occasions where the time frame slows down to human speed, the rocks are nothing but rocks, their motion and conversation way too slow for humanity to perceive.
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Das Rad	hasFeature	Time Abyss / int_7896458b
Das Rad	hasFeature	Time Dissonance / int_7896458b
Das Rad	hasFeature	We Are as Mayflies / int_7896458b

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