Saturday, November 5, 2016

Geri's Game - A Pixar Short

I have already previously written on a Pixar short film for my reading quiz portion.  However, I have loved this particular one my whole life, and it brought back memories when I got to see it again in class.  Geri's Game, an animated short film that was depicted directly before the movie A Bug's Life (1998), shows an old man at a park in the autumn season playing a game of chess by himself.  I always wondered how there was two different versions of him in the film and thought that they might have been twins.  That was at least my thoughts as a young kid watching this short film.  I was laughing uncontrollably when Geri with the black chess pieces was dominating the other Geri with the white chess pieces.  It was a great plot turn when Geri decides to fake a heart attack and switch the board around in order to trick his counterpart and win the game.  This plot twist is what made the short film so attention-grabbing and comedic.  The meaning that I got out of this short animated film was to always enjoy yourself and life as a whole before it catches up with you.

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