Borrowed Time - Pixar. Critical Review

Great animated short 'Borrowed Time' from Pixar - exploring grief with an ending, that's also a beginning.

With little dialogue and sunlight representing a bright spark of hope, this is a simple tale of trauma, loss and ultimately acceptance and hope...
I particularly like the fluid movement of the fabric, the sound of the wind and the character's hair blowing in the breeze...and these elements really add a sense of time passing and this film is a poetic exploration and depiction of grief, guilt and trauma

Mark Grindle suggested that I include the sound of thawing ice, right at the front end of my film...this will give a subtle message of hope from the get go....
I could see how this idea played out from the start in this short - particularly with the sunlight glinting on the gitfed pocketwatch....