The unique visual style makes Endless Cookie catch your attention but what makes it really stick with you is the natural nature of how the stories are told. This is a film about story telling and Endless Cookie is such a compelling way to take these stories in. The Scriver's pairing of film making with story telling comes together so beautifully that you can't help but get pulling into their stories.
There is a juxtaposition between how odd the visuals are, from the characters to the animation, and how much it feels like someone you know telling you about their lives. The stories are sometimes hilarious, and sometimes quite moving. Sometimes they are involved and sometimes they get cut off and are left without resolution. However they play out it's impossible not to get pulled in.
I find often animation can achieve a greater approximation of real life than "live action" can. Endless Cookie, with its naturalistic ways of bringing the Scriver's family stories to the world, is a wonderful example of this.
Endless Cookie
Writers/Directors: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver
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