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This Adorable Disney Short Takes on the Serendipity of City Life
The Oscar-nominated short 'Paperman' romanticizes missed connections.
Disney's Academy Awards-nominated short film "Paperman" has been circulating the web the past few days (over 5 million views since it was posted on YouTube on Tuesday). The film poignantly illustrates missed connections often felt in cities.
Take the opening scene. A man, dressed in a simple suit-and-tie, stands on a subway train platform with the absent, mind-somewhere-else expression of the daily commuter. His stupor is broken by a woman (strangely sans-briefcase) on the platform. He looks away for a second, and she disappears. Missed connection.