Jack Stauber’s OPAL | adult swim smalls

art. beautiful

it’s sad how her own mind is trying to distract herself from her life because of how bad she has it. could you imagine having to go outside and just look at a billboard and wish that was you? it’s depressing.

Justice for Clair

I still come back to this and one thing I dont see addressed often is the wails from the window.

Even in her happiest fantasy, a place where she feels safe, there's a part of her deep down that wants the truth, and knows she can't just ignore the sounds of suffering.

Even in her wildest dreams, she cannot ignore the siren's call of her own desperate cries for help.

The dad seems like the most normal, even if the bar is very low.

Good job jack stauber and adult swim

They all look like the boss from smiling friends

Jack Stauber should make a sequel. Maybe about her teenage years.

Her little silly dance (ik it’s sad but it’s a silly dance)

I am so confused dawg what's going on

This gives me meat canyon vibes

I feel so sorry for Claire, she has so much empathy for her abusers, but they are too indulged in themselves to even greet her like a person...

I love the animation, it’s really weird and funny

ₒₚₐₗ dad: open the door!!!!
Opal mom: hey I'm mom open the door
Gardpa Opal: open the door!!!!!!!!!!

OK BUT THIS WAS ART.

まじ一本の映画見た満足感

hi opal 🧓

The father is perhaps the best representation of NPD (narcissistic personality disorder) I have ever seen. The deep voice that momentarily interrupts him is scarily accurate. NPD is often rooted in deep insecurity, and the voice is an embodiment of the father's brain telling him how he'll be forgotten, how he needs to "fix himself" to be as perfect as possible. The glimpse we get of his contorted face when the mirror turns represents the vulnerablity or "ugly truth" he wants to hide from everyone.

This made me cry tbh

Idk why im just now watching this, but when she saw the billboard, was that indicating she was still in her house and never left? Because im pretty sure this video is like a metaphor for child abuse, and many parents are just like the people we saw in the video. so has she never even left the house and is just realizing how terrible her living situation is?

Haven’t seen it mentioned yet so I wanna point it out, the insult on Claire’s ankles isn’t just the dad insulting her- Claire having bad ankles can be interpreted as she can’t run away from her family

The mom is the only one to psychically grab Claire and during her song/monologue it seems like she’s been abusive, possibly from drugs and alcohol. In the music for her song, it kind of sounds like the crying coming from the window in the beginning, which could be Claire calling for help. Since there’s the crying melody in the mother’s song with flashbacks to abuse+being the only one in the house to grab Claire, I assume she harms Claire. ESP since it looks like she lunges for Claire before she runs upstairs.

What the f did i just watch before bedtime... somebody send help.

(Nevermind, just finished the video and the end was quite comforting and relatable)

I don't understand Anything actually. But i like It

This is really sad❤
Hits every time

i will never get tired of watching this

Childhood legend

This is actually fire this is my 100th time watching

This is richly scary 😟😭

I absolutely love this

The end line “and in our eyes you’ll stay” feels so insidious to me. It feels like a reference to both the way that the only “people” who see her abuse are the people in the billboard, and also that with the generational trauma inflicted on her, she might not be able to leave the cycle of abuse and stay trapped like her family

This gets ten times worse when you know the beginning is the ending…

Ah yes, a mother who thinks having a daughter/child will just make everything okay🫠

When the window blooms out, it reminds me of that mushroom, the veiled lady mushroom, extremely deadly

I find it interesting that the Grampa says “It sounds so easy to breath” instead of something like “it feels so easy” he’s aware that he’s listening to the tv and is just an part of an escape from reality he has and doesn’t actually feel easy to breathe in.

Something I haven’t seen anyone mention is how each of the family members methods of escapism are presented at the beginning like an advertisement, and then it is later revealed that Claire’s form of escapism is inspired by an advertisement for a burger place. I think there is a bit of commentary on how people sell escapism as well as what brings people to need it.

That white lace gives me csa vibes... especially the way it comes out...

anyone? 2025?

This might be really obvious and that might be why no one mentioned it but I still will become I just found this out.

When the call is coming from the window she is telling herself to go take care of/help her family because she’s the only responsible one and likely the only one even doing anything to take care of the decrepit house they live in, and her family is just herself telling her that she’s up there for a reason.

When she gets chased up the stairs of the house the call is coming from the door and is now telling her to get back in the room because she wasn’t ready to deal with her grandpa, it’s coming from the same place for a different reason.

And the ending scream isn’t her realizing that this is her life, it’s her realizing that this IS her life, until she’s 18 she will live or die in this house malnourished and ignored and no amount of fantasizing can change that.

On a second rewatch it’s so clear that she wasn’t just discovering that this is her life, she’s discovering that this is how her life will be for a very longs time