9 as a short film was very intriguing. For starters, throughout watching it I was engaged the entire time. That says a lot especially since there wasn't any dialogue. For Shane Acker to create just characters along with a very vague story and keep the audience watching is really shocking. These characters are clearly in a world that looks run down and abandoned. They start off fiddling with a light bulb, then with the actions that they start to have the audience can easily notice that there's something or someone around. One of the characters tells the other to grab the light bulb and run, as he gets caught and his ''soul" gets taken. Then the entire rest of the short film the other character running away from the beast until the beast falls to its death. But there's clearly information that we're missing. It makes the audience wonder where they are, who are they, and what's their backstory.
The short film does a great job of making the audience care for the characters. Near the end of the film, you see one of the characters jump onto his creation that was shown at the beginning of the film to kill the beast. While watching it I completely forgot that scene happened until I watch it again. In the first watch, I also didn't realize that the main part of the film was a flashback. After the part where the character kills the beast, we see what occurred after he had the flashback. With the device that the two characters had and the device that the monster had, he was able to bring back his friend and/or his friend's soul. There are so many questions that can be asked about the short film. Such as what was that device and who were the other souls that were released? In such a short time span I was fully engaged in the film. I feel like having such an elaborate setting is a big part of why the film was so great. The setting only could make the audience simply wonder, what happened.
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