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CONCEPT

In our growth phase, we often nd out that there is something similar

GRADUATION between our parents and us. Parents shadow our life more or less,
whenever we make our own choices or behave the exact way we wish

to do.
PRODUCTION Most parents expect us to be the perfect children they want us to be.

They have high expectation, wishing their children to reach the goal
- they set for them. However, the expectation parents hold is not

suitable, or even good for every child. The expectation might be shaped
CTRL T by the majority of society; meanwhile, the universal value and standard

created by the majority may not be essentially the best.

The biggest question is: If we cannot keep our own thoughts, what is
the point of creating a world in praise of diversity?

WORLDVIEW

In this world, we have a fantasy machine, which can control our gure.
Parents can use it to control and deform their children. For example, if

children do not have the intelligence for learning, parents can use the

machine to reform them. After reformation parents can nd their
children to be more intelligent, but the appearance will become freaky;

they might have a signi cantly huge head.
We transfer parents' longing for control toward their We use this exaggerated way as a metaphor for parents’ control,
children into literal genetic modification. Would according to our own experience as children. We nd out parent’ control

children still be happy, confined in the frame of their is something rather imperceptible that sometimes we cannot even notice.

parents' expectation? Can we escape from such value Hopefully, our animation can form an intense impression in the minds of
like this? The unique texture, the warmth that parents or those who want to forcibly affect or control others. Every

stop-motion possesses brings out the wishes deep person in the world is a different

inside the boy. We deliver the warmth to the boy's individual, and it is wrong and unnecessary trying to shape another
life, yet at the same time control him as well.
individual.