So much of what we’re sent is simply beautiful and I want to try and get as many of them posted as possible so we’ve decided to do a new series of posts called ‘Short Film Cinema’. If you have a Short Film you’d like on the ‘Short Film Cinema’, please fill out this formĪbout HeyUGuys’ Short Film Cinema: We get sent dozens of links by people who are eager for people to see their work and often we don’t have the space or the time to watch / write a story up about them. It showcases what the ‘human mind’ will try & do to keep him sane. Synopsis ‘Lying in Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is about a guy named Ash, who’s so desolated & depressed with his life, wakes up on a park bench and what follows are a series of interactions with the people in his life as well as a stranger.
mixed with mercury and drank in a lead cup. Worst Aid: After her older sister Maria suffers a traumatic head injury, Anna desperately scrambles the money for a miracle cure in the form of blessed water.If earth was so badly ravaged to the point where their only hope was to send a Generation Ship to the stars, how could they have mustered the resources to build one? They couldn't, and they didn't. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Used as a major plot point in Konstance's story.Spotting the Thread:Konstance finding the owls in the Atlas, and slowly realising the truth about the Argos.Humans Are Bastards: Believed by Seymour.
Global Warming: A theme explored in Seymour's storyline, with some of the effects are shown in Konstance's.Earth simply didn't have the resources to build a spaceship the Argos is actually a sealed building in Greenland. Which is how she realized that a coconut tree found in a simulation of Earth was a fake generated by AI it didn't have the germination holes. Chekhov's Skill: Konstance's father taught her all about plants, comparing a coconut's germination holes to a face.Anachronic Order: Chapters rotate between six main characters over five timelines.After the End: Implied with Konstance's story.In the far future, Konstance travels through the stars.Ĭonnecting each story is an ancient Greek text about Aethon, a man who turns from man to donkey to bird in search of a paradise in the sky.
In 2020 America, a teenager attempts a terror attack on a library. In 1950s Korea, Zeno is an American prisoner of war. In 1450s Constantinople, Anna and Omeir live on either side of the siege. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is a 2021 novel following multiple different characters in several different timelines.
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