Forget me not
2021 · 7m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Courtney LeBlanc, Saige Guevara
Genres: animation, dark comedy, satire
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
A classic cartoon character confronts his rebooted alter ego and fights to stay in the spotlight, only to realise he has lost himself in trying to preserve his legacy.
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A cartoon character fighting his own reboot is the kind of premise that should be insufferable—meta, self-aware, obvious—but LeBlanc and Guevara actually use the absurdity to gut-punch you with something real about obsolescence and self-erasure; it's subversive because it earns its melancholy instead of announcing it.
The film situates itself smartly within animation's own history of reinvention and legacy, using the cartoon medium to interrogate questions of artistic integrity and renewal that echo through decades of studio practice; the formal restraint—how much is *not* shown—marks a considered approach to satire.
The decision to keep the original character deliberately static and expressionless while his reboot performs circles around him is the entire film, and it's devastating—one choice in staging that makes the whole meditation on creative death land with specificity instead of editorial winking.