Animated short. A flightless bird tries to fly. ISTR he expended a lot of effort with a tree. At then end we see him happily flying…
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… Then the angle shifts and we see that the bird built the tree perpendicular to a cliff face, and he was actually plummeting straight down.
Wasn’t there an alternative “happy ending” version?
I think the music with this one is perfect.
Oh no! The emo, it burns!
Sounds like Berkeley Breathed’s A Wish for Wings that Work, starring Opus:
