In the animation “The Fly” by Ferenc Rofusz lasting approximately three minutes, a fly gets stuck in a house on an autumn day. This animation incorporated beautiful images and a wonderful message to it’s viewers. When getting shown in class it really stuck me how a video about a bug with no dialogue could get me so emotional and that 's what I think is so wonderful about it. First and foremost, Ferenc Rofusz is portraying way more than a fly in this animation. The deeper meaning to this piece of art is to force the viewer to see through the eyes of someone or something else. Since industrialization people have claimed that society has become more and more isolated to our own self, having the difficulty of understanding what others may be going …show more content…
The amount of detail put into each frame makes it seem unimaginable that it was all done by hand. Using what I assume is charcoal on paper Rofusz depicts detailed scenes such as a forest and a house. Through the animation I think Rofusz tried to bring an atmosphere of anxiety and distress which is why the drawings are so rugged and unfinished, they seem chaotic, this paired with the un-uniformity of the angles moving in all directions helps us have the same feeling as the fly must be faced with. The colours used, being only black and yellow gives the viewer a distinguishable way of realizing this is the view of something more simple than us, yet experiencing something we can relate to. Thirdly, the sound plays with the visuals in creating the anxiety I was talking about earlier. From the start, the buzzing of the fly is just seen as annoying and makes the viewers just want it to stop but as the animation continues we become the fly as we are watching through its perspective. The sound of the woman footsteps then become more threatening than the buzzing. The buzzing starts to become a sign of life and close to the end I didn 't want it to stop because that meant the fly has finally seen it doom and without fail