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The Home Lighting Blog goes to the movies, today, with resident reviewers Alan and Erland taking a look at CollegeHumor’s new original animated short that parodies the classic Pixar intro.
Alan says:
The short is a stylish piece of parody that masks an underlying tone of hostility and reciprocity towards all lighting fixtures and lamps. It’s obvious that the person behind this film is a former customer service lighting representative, perhaps even a former employee? Lord knows, I want to see a few of the lamps we sell fry for their outlandish behavior and poor operation, but I have never had the power or the will to carry it out. So in a sense, their Pixar Intro Parody is sort of a wish fulfillment, for all of the frustration we suffer in this field, the RGA’s, the countless back orders, the poor manufacturing and shoddy customer service that we deal with, the lack of respect. All leading to the final oblivion that is electrocution, a fitting end to an incandescent light wasted.
Erland Says:
CollegeHumor continues to eschew subtly in favor of simple shock value (no pun intended) with this original animated short. A treatise on the morality of the death penalty it ain’t! While I seriously doubt it’s what the filmmakers had in mind, the Pixar Intro Parody brings to mind Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men, with the bouncing desk lamp standing in for simple Lennie Small. Whereas the viewer sees an innocently playful light fixture that doesn’t know its own strength, the letters that inhabit the world of the film gape in horror at a brutal murderer. “Tell me again about the rabbits, George”, the lamp seems to say with its doleful incandescent eye. So I must disagree: the person behind this film seems to have enormous sympathy for lighting fixtures. Perhaps he or she even has first-hand (or burnt-finger) knowledge that sometimes a beloved desk lamp has to be replaced with something more benign—perhaps an LED task light?
Consensus: Two bulbs up!
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