LucasFilm had a screening of all of the Oscar-nominated shorts tonight. I’d seen three of the five prior to this but I wanted to go and see The Danish Poet again. The first time I saw this film, my friends and I left the theater stunned with how amazing the film is. Fortunately when I left tonight, that feeling remained.

This film is perfect, pure and simple. Similarly to how you’d have to be a cruel bomb-making hermit grumpy crab man to dislike the recently posted stuff from Aardman, you’d have to hate all things that are even shy of this side of good in life to dislike this film. Even Cobra Commander would like The Danish Poet, it’s that good.

The other films were interesting. Pixar’s Lifted garnered some laughs and Blue Sky’s No Time for Nuts did the same. Disney’s Little Match Girl had a wonderful Fantasia 2000 feeling to it except it had a surprisingly dark and honest ending to its sad tale centering on a homeless girl during winter in Russia. After the screening of the films, some of the film makers were there to field questions and my suspicions about Little Match Girl were confirmed. After Fantasia 2000 Roy Disney wanted to continue that style of story telling by creating three short films centered in different cultures, hence the look that was so identifiable. And in regards to the very non-Disney ending to the film, the director behind Little Match Girl had to fight with his higher ups for three years to get the ending that he wanted. I’m glad he ultimately won.

Anyway, this post isn’t about how Disney surprised me, this post is about The Danish Poet. The amazing Danish Poet. Pure unadulterated perfect story-telling. Pure happiness confined in 14 minutes of film. Pure awesomeness. If this film doesn’t win the Oscar, the terrorists have won.

So, go here and click screenings and do anything in your power to see this film.