If Anything Happens I Love You

Touching small story about losing a child and coping with the relationship that's left behind. Well done.

Absolutely devastating. If Anything Happens I Love You is an astounding piece of animation that packs more into its short runtime than almost any other short that I have seen. I appreciated how its approach to gun violence deals squarely with the aftermath and depicts full-on how grief in such a sudden, quick situation can wreck people and relationships even though the loss is no fault of their own.

I guess it was around 2013 that filmmakers really started to get a hardon for the idea of parents with a dead kid. Apparently the thrill hasn't died yet. There is no more hackneyed way of trying to seem "meaningful". Tying it to a "social issue" just doubles the sense of false wisdom.

This is porn. It wants nothing but to be sad. And while that is ok for any living thing, I reject that as a piece of art this aspires to be.

Really touching and way too relevant. Reminds me a lot of Pixar shorts, which is always a good sign.