The Working Man
2017
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An animated short about a miserable man stuck in a very bad job with untrustworthy machinery and angry bosses. Created by animator Tim Searfoss, the film is a madcap fable of alienated labor drawn in an expressive sketchy style. The unnamed working man mans a machine in an insane factory full of impossible mechanical flourishes and a labyrinthine infinity to it that reminds me of the futuristic hellscapes of Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack. And while there's a simple plot at work, it drives home an important idea about the costs of mistreated labor and the ways in which misery, unlike wealth, tends to flow downward.
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