A different way of telling a story

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I cannot describe how much I am amused by this short film. Also, this film gives me a practical lesson how up and down are properly arranged for optimum effects. A young alien, who seems like a freshman, tries to practice abducting human by the spaceship technology under the supervision of a predecessor, which is not going smoothly at all. Many funny moments are brought by the continuous failure. For instance, after a sequence of struggling, he gets impatient and flicks switches randomly on the spacecraft control panel, causing the sleeping man to crash into walls, ceilings, trees... Finally he gets the man out of window, but he dropped the man again. Then the up comes. His predecessor steps in, fixing everything in house in order and putting the human back to bed. Instead of taking over the control of panel, the predecessor gives him another chance. The young freshman manages to drop the whole spaceship on the human's house, before flying off. The scream from the abductee in the end gives me a last surprise, which is the point of this film I especially like.Pixar short films are well known by the way it handles characters. The protagonist's expressive face and his predecessor's poker face intensify the amusement in a contrary way. Lifted is a great film for laughter, but it might fail in building vivid characters. After finish watching the film, audiences should have had emotional connection to the character, but audiences of Lifted might rarely think about the background or off-scene stories of either the clumsy freshman or the skilled predecessor. They are just there for entertainment.

An alien takes a test for an abduction of a human being. He looks like a not-so-good student.This film is quite funny. The contrast between the inside of UFO and the one of the abductee's house is striking. Also I feel sympathy for the alien who takes the test. His emotions are really familiar to me. He can't be sure whether he's doing right or not and he tries to know that from a examiner's reaction. But the examiner doesn't even change his expression. He feels more uneasiness. Everyone who has taken a test or something would know this feeling. The more you feel nervous, the more you make mistakes. I laugh at him, but at the same time, I feel like he is me. I cheered for him during watching it.This film is a comedy, but it describes a general feeling everybody has. While he is an alien, he has something in common with us.

I have some questions about this film. While I watched it, I could't know what the relationship between two aliens is and why they try to take a young man away. I could know a young man slept well. Whenever he was bumped on a wall by aliens, he did not wake up. Ordinary people should notice it by pain. Did he not feel painful? If it is true, I think he is a superman. Then, I guessed two aliens tried to take him away because of it first. However they returned furniture in a young man's room to normal places in the end, so I suppose they just practice taking humans away. The scene I like in this film is that an alien became desperate and pushed buttons randomly. The alien succeeded in bringing a young man into UFO once, but he did not notice it. When I watched this, I burst out laughing. At the last scene, he also tries to operate UFO and failed in it. He did everything hard, but he always did not succeed at all. I think this character resembles a snowman of Knick Knack. They both have sweetness just like Pixar's works.

This film is one of works of PIXAR by Disney. I thought this is science-fiction movie at first, because UFO appears in farmland. However, in fact this is a heartwarming story of an alien. One night a farmer's room becomes veiled in blue light. A farmer is sleeping. His body floats in midair and goes to window. He seems to be kidnapped. However, his head hits a wall. A small green alien tries to move the farmer by control board. He bashes the farmer's body against the wall or the ceiling or the floor by mistake. The big green alien who is the small green alien's boss stares at his manipulation. The small alien can't manage it, but he regains confidence in the end. I think this movie is merger between complication and resolution. The small alien fails many times on route, but he recover his confidence the end of the movie. So this film is the most important work of complication and resolution.