Tolerance towards others. . . Imagine you have 2 heads. That your mad mother cut you off from civilization. You're alone, walking through huge corridors with a thousand rooms. Although you are not entirely alone. . .
The director and screenwriter of the film ' The Last Door to the South' was made by a young aspiring director and screenwriter Sasha Feiner. This picture is his debut work. This animated film was shot in two styles: color and black and white. The author uses this move for a reason, but about everything in order.
The world consists of floors united by stairs, and the floors of the rooms are connected by corridors.
The main characters of the film are a little boy, whose name we do not know and his brother. They're Siamese twins. The child seems to have hydrocephalus. Mother closed it in four walls, fenced off from light, people, civilization. She created a world for him where only the two of them lived. Dark, gloomy and terribly oppressive atmosphere accompanied the boy throughout his life. He didn't feel alone, he had a friend, Toto, a second head that was diametrically opposite to himself. Condensed, half-living, she was his part, inseparable from the body. They had to survive with each other. Fire and water. Light and shadow. Calm and angry. They were complete antagonists but managed to survive. Their main occupation was to study with their mother and study their world '
This picture boldly tells us about the painful: about people with disabilities who are unable to show themselves; about the attitude towards them by their relatives; about courage and naivety. Our hero lives in a dark, dark and frightening place, his life turned black and white. He cannot understand the real world, thinking that the world is his home. The hero tries to find a way out, the end 'the world'. His mother told him about his father, his death, and that he was in heaven without telling him what it was. The boy, devoid of any external sources, tries to understand what death, heaven, peace is. The author raises ' eternal themes ' on behalf of an unusual child, to show us how he lives these stages of his life, gives us grounds for reflection: why are such people hiding? Think, people, think. . .
Our hero was able ' to hatch from the shell' to appear to the world, despite his mother who locked him up. Perhaps she wanted to help him, save him from contempt and hatred, but not at the same cost. He was able to see the real world, full of palettes of different shades enveloping him. From the black and white world he moved to the color world. But how do you keep going? This is a question for us and for our attitude towards such people. . .
9 out of 10