"The House of Small Cubes"

One more time about animated movies!
This time a little different one, because it's more suitable for the adult audience. It's "The House of Small Cubes" by Kunio Katou, aired in 2008.

It's difficult to tell anything about the plot, because... this movie hardly has a plot. It's about a daily life of an old man (we don't even know his name). One day he losts his favourite pipe in deep water. Instead of buying a new one, he decides to dive to take it. This "journey" brings back memories about his past and relatives.

This short animation is in general about the humanity: loneliness, evanescence, love, family, senescence, memories... It shows us that a movie doesn't need to have a complex plot to be touching.

For me, "The House of Small Cubes" is just beautiful. I can't find any other epithetes to describe the warmth you feel in your heart as you watch it... Thankfully, this opinion is not only mine since it won several prizes in different festivals, including the Oscar award.

Well, it lasts only 12 min and it is definitely worth seeing. I strongly recommend it to you.

The full movie you can see here:

"Ernest and Celestine"

In this post I want to tell you about an amazing French movie, "Ernest and Celestine".
People usually don't like animated movies, because they connect them with stupid series for small children. I don't deny it - there are plenty of them... But still you can find some fantastic animated movies good for all the family. One of them is "Ernest and Celestine".

It's a story about mice and bears living in the same city, but being in a hostile relationship. The main character, a small mouse Celestine, doesn't agree with everybody's opinion. When one day she meets a bear named Ernest, she doesn't see him as a foe, and she even becomes friend with him. Unfortunately, both mice's and bears' societies don't approve this friendship...

This movie has not only the interesting plot. There're also beautiful music and lovely pastel colours which you can see in the trailer below.

NaNoWriMo

Like every time in November, also this year NaNoWriMo is starting! :)

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a creative writing project. It isn't a contest, so there are neither winners nor losers. Participants should write - a book, a novel, a short story, fanfiction or whatever they like. The main goal is to achieve 50,000 words, but, as I've already written, it's not a contest so nothing'll happen if you won't manage to do it. It's just for fun, after all!

NaNoWriMo FAQ

There are some events connected with NaNoWriMo. For example, last year in Polish group there was a challenge - in your story you should use a word "sówki" ('owlets'). People exchanged their sentences with this word and some of them were just hilarious :D
There are also some meetings in real life. This year in Poland there were meetings in Poznań and Warsaw (3 November) or there will be one in Wrocław (11 November). People discuss and write there, so it's necessary to bring a notebook, tablet or anything you can write in.

It's still some time until the end of November, so if you have some time, you can join and take pleasure in writing! :)