Uncle Larry and everyone on this side of the family are hilarious. Our families share a dry and morbid sense of humor that makes us feel at home. I’m being forced to read this against my will… ”While all ideas are worth trying, not all ideas are good. We even got the idea to start the film with Larry, who reads in broken French from a cue card: “I am the owner of a small pet turtle. Perhaps the moral is that it is easy to convince ourselves that we are doing something right about someone or something, but as more information emerges we realize that what we are offering is completely inadequate.Īlex: When we work together or come up with ideas, Kaitlyn and I strongly prescribe the YES… AND philosophy. For a cold-blooded animal, this was anything but an ideal habitat. But Snowy spent his days in a cold, dark basement without much heat or sunlight. On the one hand, he fed Snowy balanced meals and diligently cleaned his tank. Without having any information, Larry thought he was doing Snowy right. Kaitlyn: There’s also something we can take away from Uncle Larry’s character that we didn’t fully tease out ourselves.
We had hoped that Snowy, an insignificant little thing in the order of life forms, could be an accessible way of realizing that there is always room to better understand life experiences outside of our own, be it your grandmother, neighbor, or a pet turtle.
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It’s even easier to get into habits and lose sight of the fact that we are surrounded by incredible people, each a human-shaped time capsule full of stories and experiences. But there seems to be a deeper message too?Īlex: It’s easy to take life for granted. Her short documentary is both an investigation into animal happiness and an intervention to improve a turtle’s life. Filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis decided to make a film about the pet turtle Snowy after spending a year of Thanksgiving with him.
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