she's tired... The cartoon “Grandma” is made in an interesting manner, with a graphite pencil. The artist makes his sketches on paper, and the boy makes the first sketches of his life.
Watching the movie Grandma is very interesting. The images of the characters are made in a portrait manner, as far as possible worked out and close to real images of people. The film is unusual and ambiguous.
In an ordinary provincial town, in a sleeping area, in a small house, lives an ordinary boy. He perceives the world with childish sincerity, credulity and naivety. Like all children, at this age, he perceives the world through the prism of a rich childhood fantasy.
The plot of the cartoon is simple: a boy sees a girl on the next balcony trying to drop her doll. The boy, thanks to the imagery of his thinking, perceives the doll as an animate creature and, succumbing to the natural impulse to help the neighbor and the weak, falls down from the balcony. The boy was injured and needs treatment and support. Here is the main character of the cartoon Grandma.
The grandmother builds her relationship with the boy not as a child, but as a mature person, equal to himself. There is not an ordinary educational monologue addressed by the older person to the child, but a dialogue where one person gives advice to another, shares experience. Grandmother teaches to deal with difficulties, to be stronger than circumstances, to help people and animals. Grandma teaches the boy humanity. Trying to explain to him what it means to be a man. And how to use this knowledge the boy decides for himself.
Throughout the cartoon, the grandmother is somewhere nearby, she seems to watch from the sidelines and simultaneously participate in events. But we are not presented with the usual image of the grandmother, which we are used to seeing. This is not an idealized good old lady who does the right thing. She is a real person with many flaws. Her image is very multifaceted and non-standard. She's trying to raise her grandson because she feels right. In the process of education and transfer of experience, the grandmother is a little tired.