Mark Osborne's MORE
Why Hacker News recommends it
Brought up in threads about isolation, dystopia and busyness as a moving, relevant short film.
What it is
MORE is Mark Osborne's Oscar-nominated stop-motion short about a joyless inventor in a drab, conformist society who yearns for his younger days. It won Best Short Film at Sundance in 1999.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2015 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends thewarrior · 2015-08 · on “Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit”
By sheer coincidence , I just finished a watching an Oscar nominated short film called MORE which exactly parallels Notch's situation. It's saddening and quite moving. [this video] I think both Notch's feelings of isolation and ennui and the resentment of those around him are both valid. One doesn't preclude the other , in fact they feed into each other.
Cites aorav · 2017-12 · on “Magic Leap One”
The entire presentation, and the look of the glasses reminds me of the quite dystopian short Movie 'More': [this video]
Cites newnewpdro · 2018-04 · on “Why is everyone so busy? (2014)”
Everywhere Americans look they're pressured to consume more, achieve more, live beyond their means, go into debt (student loans, car loans, home mortgages), and have a family on top of it all while saving for some fabled retirement and college tuition for the kids. If you unplug and simplify your life, don't bother with pursuing a family, you'll see how disincentivized to be busy you are and how absurdly everyone else appears to be living. But if you pursue all the things your competitors are pursuing, you'll find yourself having to acquire similar levels of resources. There's not enough to go around for _everyone_ to have that amount of excess, hence it must be fought over. Basically what y