Sep 19 2012
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Short
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Madame Tutli-Putli directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski is a very metaphoric short film using puppets as a medium. The puppet work is excellent especially in mimicking real life bodily movements and the addition of real-life noises such as a character’s teeth clicking on a pen cap. The opening scene is a slow pan across a train platform of this woman, Madame Tutli-Putli, and her luggage. She clearly has a lot of baggage behind her and the weight she is carrying is immense. Her train cabin features five characters. men sitting in suitcases playing chess with “the board they have been dealt” as the train’s movements keep rearranging their game. Then, sitting across the cabin are three other people, an old man sleeping, a boy reading a book which will be preparing him for life, and a middle-aged rather crass gentleman. After a disgusting suggestion from the later, Madame Tutli-Putli looks up at his tennis bag and imagines him playing tennis. This suggests everyone is carrying baggage of some kind. Unfortunately for the woman with all the baggage in the world, this is a train where ghouls come on board and steal it from you, forcing you to move on. And this is exactly what happens. As Madame Tutli-Putli wanders the train after losing her luggage, stumbling her way through muck and the trains violent rocking, she is saved by a (recurring image) moth, which lifts her on her feet and leads her into the future. (?)
I think I have to award you “most creative title” because I am simply loving that play on words. Anyways, I thought you had a great observation by pointing out the fact that there was no script yet it was so emotional. More emotional than most films that have scripts and there in lies the genius of this short film. I guess it fits with the classic proverb of “Say less do more.”