I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

"Are We Still Married" is the second film from the Quay Twins's "Silent Night" film franchise. There are a whole of 5 films I believe. In my opinion, this was not intended as scary as the first, but more fantastic in the sense of the genre. The cuddly toy rabbit and the girl's legs reminded me of "Alice in Wonderland" for a reason. At 3.5 minutes, it runs roughly twice as long as their first and it is also in black-and-white just like the first entry. Early on, the crying eye was an interesting way to start the film, but things went south fairly quickly after that. All in all, I must say it seems that the Quay's animation style is not really my preferred choice and as whole I do not recommend this movie.

Being in the mood to wrap up the week with the viewing of an animated title,I decided that it would be the perfect time to view a short on a DVD that a DVD seller had kindly given me on my Birthday.The plot:A white ball goes around a number of puppets and turns into a white light.As the white ball/light starts to bring the puppets to life,a young girl and a rabbit begin walking on walls.View on the film:Backed by a shimmering score from His Name Is Alive,co-writers/directors Stephen and Timothy Quay expertly use worn out black & white colours to create a hauntingly faded atmosphere,with the Quay also giving the title an unexpected somber feel,by dipping their toes into Alice's warped Wonderland.

Hmm...interesting! What a wonderful little work of dark fantasy art. I just love everything there is to see and breathe in, it's all so spooky and sad, and the haunting wistful song matches the phantasmagorical cold imagery perfectly. This short may indeed be very short, but it has strange beauty and a great profoundness to it that I found quite brilliant. When I first saw them, I found this and all the other Stille Nachts to be some of the most soul-stirring animations I'd ever seen. This is my favourite of the four. You definitely get your money's worth for the three minutes. Such magicians of their craft, were these Brothers Quay. The humorous anthropomorphic bunny and what is seen of the "girl" instantly brings to mind all of the classic elements of Alice in Wonderland. The tone was absolutely one of darkness but I didn't find it morbid or depressing. It felt more like a lulling, soothing kind of darkness to me. I wonder what it's supposed to mean... Anything? Nothing? Whatever you want it to be? Or just perhaps, it's a window into the mind of some poor terminally damaged soul who for whatever reason, is unwilling, or unable to mature, someone who is not able to put aside childish things and is wholly ignorant of reality hammering to be let in-someone who is so very tired that they desire nothing more than to sleep forever and disappear into nothingness... -Oh my! Might come off as a little maudlin, but that's how I opted to deduce things. I love the beautiful final image of the eyes that so heavily close that are clearly not the eyes of a child. There's such finality there. It's like it's saying: it's time to rest, to drift, to fall, down into the shadows...where you belong.

The Quay Brother's "Stille Nacht" series is their more commercial work, though one without that knowledge would be hard pressed to see what makes these works any different stylistically and thematically from their "independant" works. This one, Stille Nacht II (or "Are We Still Married" after the song by His Name is Alive) is basically a music video, utilizing some repeated elements from Stille Nacht I.This short is kind of interesting to look at because it shows what can be done with music videos besides making them three-minute commercials for the band's own song you're already currently hearing. It's use is so effective that the style has been used by the band Tool (of which I am a fan) in their own stunningly claustrophobic stop-motion animation.However, later inspirations aside, the Brothers Quay unique mise-en-scene sticks out. A sort of Alice in Wonderland characterization changes pace completely into a rabbit that interacts with a ball that came from a woman's tear. Rather than creating the "Tortured soul" effect of a Tool music video, the Brothers Quay entrap the audience into the song itself, from a band I'm not actually familiar with, but which seems to sing about the decay of relationships even as the track itself sounds like it's decaying on an old cassette tape.--PolarisDiB