Lifted (2006)

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The first impression of this movie was I already had feeling that it would become a funny movie. And I was not wrong. The film about two aliens working together in order to lift a human up to their UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is brilliant. First of all, I like how they portrayed aliens as green slime like creatures. Not to mention they are irresistibly cute as well. The small alien is my favorite. He probably has no talent to be what aliens are supposed to be, but he would never stop trying. The human who is going to be lifted is so unrealistic in my opinion, but that is what makes this film more interesting in the first place. This film is only five minutes, and I recommend you to watch it.

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.

This story is about a little alien which takes an operating test. There are only three characters, the alien, other alien which judges the exam and a human who sleeps deeply. The thing the little alien must do is to choose the right switch from a lot of switches and brings the man to the UFO. However, the little alien can't chooses correct switch because he didn't study hard. The more the little alien fail, he feels more pressure from the examiner, and the end he pushes many switches randomly. Finally, he succeeds in bringing the man to the UFO, but unexpected deployment is waiting. When I was a high school student, I first watched this film. At then, I was very excited by the movie, because it was a movie which I can't expect the story. Especially, I was amazed at the last scene. I have never seen such an interesting movie. Although this film is short and no sound, content is very easy to understand and funny, so I suppose that every generation of people can enjoy the film.

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.