{"id":12414,"date":"2017-12-30T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2017-12-30T14:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T20:23:27","slug":"birdboy-the-forgotten-children-2015-rivero-vasquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12414","title":{"rendered":"Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015, Rivero &#038; V\u00e1squez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cute mouse Dinki runs away from her fake family (her &#8220;dad&#8221; is a guy wearing mouse ears and her &#8220;brother&#8221; is a dog) with a boy and her creepy girlfriend who hears murder-voices.  Birdboy himself spends most of the movie a useless junkie, having nightmares and reminiscing about life with his late father in a lighthouse, but briefly he turns into a giant enraged bird-beast and kills all the dump rats who threaten his friends.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t feel like an adult animation so much as a kids&#8217; animation that has been isolated and deprived of light or hope for decades until all the happy furry creatures have turned to despair.  Also featuring a living piggybank and living alarm clock, the opposite of Disney&#8217;s <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em> trinkets, showing the cruel horrors we inflict on the objects that are just doing their jobs for us.  Played with a short&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Decorado<\/em> (2016, Alberto V\u00e1squez)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From one of <em>Birdboy<\/em>&#8216;s directors, a handful of truly awful animal-characters interact in short sketches, while one of them (the guy whose best friend is a ghost and is married to a robot-voiced woman whose secret admirer is a horrible monster) starts to realize that he&#8217;s in a <em>Truman Show<\/em> situation with artificial scenery.  Some crude gags striving towards profundity, not quite making it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute mouse Dinki runs away from her fake family (her &#8220;dad&#8221; is a guy wearing mouse ears and her &#8220;brother&#8221; is a dog) with a boy and her creepy girlfriend who hears murder-voices. Birdboy himself spends most of the movie a useless junkie, having nightmares and reminiscing about life with his late father in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,136,189],"class_list":["post-12414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-drugs","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12419,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}