In “High Score” (3:50 min) by Adrien Vallade, Lou Maurice De Reparaz, Brian Lim, Elodie Ferrer, Pablo Cortes, “In a post-apocalyptic world, a man takes refuge in an arcade.”
This is a very short “short” from a French company. The animation scenes of ruin are very well done. Not wholly clear why the video arcade manages to work without a reliable power system but every film is allowed one improbable incident (only one). At any rate (no spoilers), the wholly lone guy actually finds an opponent to play the game with.
Some of us would have liked the film to be longer and more complex. What if the opposing player were an intelligent alien or an elemental force? The film is fine, especially insofar as it is short. But the problem of the “game” that turns out to be an existential struggle usually benefits…
