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The Windshield Wiper

93 statements
17 feature instances
3 referencing feature instances

The Windshield Wiper	type	TVTItem
The Windshield Wiper	label	The Windshield Wiper
The Windshield Wiper	page	TheWindshieldWiper
The Windshield Wiper	comment	The Windshield Wiper is a 2021 animated short film (14 minutes) written and directed by Alberto Mielgo.A man sits and drinks coffee in a cafe somewhere. As the cafe hums with chatter, the man looks at the camera and says "What is love?" The cartoon then shows a series of unconnected vignettes meant to suggest different aspects of what love is. The vignettes include: a man and a woman introduced sitting on a beach, who are revealed to have a tempestuous relationship; a drunken hobo, who in a state of extreme intoxication mistakes a mannequin in a window for a woman that's important to him; a man and a woman in a grocery store, standing right next to each other but strangers, both flitting through the same dating app on their phones; and a man moving into an apartment complex, who catches sight of a pretty neighbor.
The Windshield Wiper	fetched	2023-09-20T20:53:34Z
The Windshield Wiper	parsed	2023-09-20T20:53:34Z
The Windshield Wiper	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Windshield Wiper / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Windshield Wiper / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: A man in a cafe, idly drinking coffee and wondering "what is love?"
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The Windshield Wiper / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Windshield Wiper / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: There is no windshield or windshield wiper. In an interview Albert Mielgo said it was a metaphor for a windshield wiper in the rain, how the film cuts back and forth from vignette to vignette like how rain on a windshield makes a new pattern every time only to be erased when it's wiped.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_2c171242	type	Anthology Film
The Windshield Wiper / int_2c171242	comment	Anthology Film: A short animated version thereof, as the cartoon consists of a series of vignettes loosely related by the theme of love.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
The Windshield Wiper / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: The vignette with the two people flipping through the dating app starts with the man skipping past a picture of a woman flipping the bird to the camera.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
The Windshield Wiper / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: Seen from the male half of the couple on the beach, when, instead of being on the beach, they are both inside and both naked as they're having an argument.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Windshield Wiper / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The end of the cartoon comes back to the man in the cafe, who again asks "What is love?", and this time answers his question by saying "Love is a secret society."
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The Windshield Wiper / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
The Windshield Wiper / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: One of the vignettes, and one of the most repeated ones, starts with a man and a woman on a California beach. While the man is fully clothed, the woman wears nothing but bikini bottoms.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Windshield Wiper / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: A young woman in a schoolgirl's uniform stands on the top of a building. Love doesn't save her; she jumps. (The film never says why, although presumably it has to do with love.)
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The Windshield Wiper / int_962b9429	type	Social Media Is Bad
The Windshield Wiper / int_962b9429	comment	Social Media Is Bad: The man and the woman shopping for groceries. They are perfect for each other, and they are standing literally right next to each other. They never notice each other because each is busy flipping through photos on a dating app.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_9c92c96d	type	Painted CGI
The Windshield Wiper / int_9c92c96d	comment	Painted CGI: The animation has flat textures on the models with superimposed lines.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_a6049c20	type	Disturbed Doves
The Windshield Wiper / int_a6049c20	comment	Disturbed Doves: Pigeons fly up when a young woman jumps from the roof of a tall building to her death.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Windshield Wiper / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: A man and a woman pass each other walking; he turns around to look at her, then walks on. A second time it happens and the second man also walks on. A third man and woman pass, the man turns to look at the woman, then he changes direction and dashes after her.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
The Windshield Wiper / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: One vignette shows a man rushing up to an apartment building in the rain, bouquet of roses in hand, and pressing someone's buzzer. After no one answers he's left standing in the pouring rain, with the mood of depression heightened by petals falling off the roses and landing in rain puddles.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_b2b73f0	type	Foot Popping
The Windshield Wiper / int_b2b73f0	comment	Foot Popping: One scene shows a man and a woman kissing in an elevator, her high heeled shoe popping up as the elevator door closes.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
The Windshield Wiper / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: There isn't a windshield wiper, but there is a window washer. A man on a scaffold on the outside of a skyscraper touches the window. Then he leans forward and kisses it. Cut to the other side of the window, where a man in a business suit is also kissing the glass.
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The Windshield Wiper / int_fcc1378e	type	Pop-Up Texting
The Windshield Wiper / int_fcc1378e	comment	Pop-Up Texting: One of the vignettes is told solely through pop-up texting. One person texts the other (as the film shows the communications satellite that's relaying the texts) and says "Yesterday was fun, right?". The other person agrees. After a couple of more texts the first person says that they felt a connection and they really want to see the other person again, and again, and again. This vignette ends with the other person's text window going "...".
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The Windshield Wiper	hasFeature	Films of the 2020s / int_513a1c55
The Windshield Wiper	hasFeature	Pop-Up Texting / int_513a1c55
The Windshield Wiper	hasFeature	Window Love / int_513a1c55

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