The Swan (2023)

• Year: 2023
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28912758/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_swan
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• Keywords: bullying, swan, based on short story, short film, minimalist, roald dahl,

	6.9/10
	89% – Critics
	82% – Audience

The Swan Storyline

A young boy, Peter Watson, is harassed and essentially kidnapped by two vicious, heartless, gun-armed bullies. Peter is intelligent and a keen studier of wildlife, especially birds. His torment is heightened when the bullies turn the aim of their gun on a beautiful swan.—grantss

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Powerful stuff

The Swan is heartbreaking but ultimately powerful stuff, a story of never backing down or letting monstrous people win. It’s uneasy viewing and definitely the darkest of the Wes Anderson Roald Dahl shorts in the most rewarding way possible.

Rupert Friend essentially carries this, narrating everything with almost no support until Fiennes’ closing words that adds real power to it. Until then Friend is phenomenal, narrating at a fast speed with a real pain to his voice as he describes what is clearly a very painful memory.

Wes Anderson’s direction works so well here, the whimsical world created contrasts so effectively against the dark nature and it’s generally just so stunning. This fully artificial world that acts like a play is endlessly watchable and each short has been so unique.

A fun little surprise

I didn’t realize that this was coming out so soon after Henry Sugar.

Shorts are a great way for the casual observer to get acclimated to Wes Anderson without overwhelming the viewer. Production design and set decoration are typically cool and quirky. Rupert Friend gives a fun performance.

I wish The French Dispatch would have been released the same way that these Roald Dahl shorts are coming out. It’s much more manageable. They can be collected into one bigger film but they stand alone very nicely. Wes Anderson is clearly a big fan of Dahl and takes great care to present the stories in a way that honors both story and author.

A short movie that forget its a short movie

Im still not really a huge fan of this kind of narration: we follow a man who relate the story even the dialogues trough the whole short movie but what really annoyed me the most its that they forgot the most important thing in movies which is the visuals (im not talking about the set design)but it should show us and make us see and not make us imagine like it was a book or something. I really have a hard time following the story just because of this and its really weird to not show us more visuals when they talked and just let us think about it. For a book its normal but here its kind of frustrating. Its just like we read a book and turn the pages of it. But its ok i guess.

The story is pretty horrible and to think that it maybe really happen just make me mad and angry but it was ok for a short movie like this. Of course i love the set design and that particular style of Wes Anderson that i really like and whatever the stories are i will still be happy to see that kind of mise en scene and style. Nice anyway.