Despite its short length (and perhaps because of it), the film has a powerful message to put across for the viewer. Consequently, its strongest aspect proves to be the story. As several of us struggle with the confinement of the lockdown imposed upon us in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the film draws the viewer's attention to another kind of entrapment. <br><br> It invokes a reality where a person might find themselves trapped in a body that does not feel like their own, yet the pretentions and the attempts to fit in a society which might not always understand this struggle, continue.

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By using the example of two robots who become sentient beings and try to break out of their mechanical structure of cold, unthinking machines, the film perhaps endeavours a comment on the state of humanity. It shows two robots developing a unique bond of friendship, which then leads to the subsequent desire to break out of their confinement where they are only surrounded by mechanical, heartless steel. <br><br> As they try to break out, their systems are rebooted leaking to a memory format and erasure. While they may rage and protest against it, is an escape truly possible for them? The film shows skill, patience and expertise on the animation front, but the visualisation has a deep echo of iconic visuals like those of Wall-E and would have benefited with a little freshness in that aspect.

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