29 July 2013
The Package
A man with OCD lives his life in a thoroughly ordered, antiseptic manner. Everything is just how he needs it and as such he keeps his anxiety down to a minimum. Although he hasn’t stepped outside his door for quite a while everything he needs is delivered to him. Then one day the delivery man brings and unexpected package…
This is a very sweet animated short with, what you might imagine, a not very promising premise. Yet directors Vitaly Magdalits and Daria Simkin have produced a very human and heart-warming story here. True, there is of course an element of having to suspend your disbelief but this is animation – that goes with the territory!