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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

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7.3/10 • 43

1965-12-150h 10m

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Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle.

Directors
Chuck Jones

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  1. Robert Morley

    Robert Morley

    Narrator (voice)

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CinemaSerf

Jan 29, 2025

7/10

We don't always get the same narration so I rarely mention it, but here Robert Morley provides a lovely tone to his alliterative narration depicting this most unlikely of love stories. The straight line, dependable and steady, loves the dot. The dot, suitably dotty, fancies the innovative and lively squiggle. This neglect attracts the attention of his fellow lines, but try as they might to make him see sense, he remains wistfully obsessed. Now he just spends him time imagining himself as a much more active and noble creation, but in the end - a line, is a line, is a line... This self deception is no good. Maybe he might as well just admit defeat? He will never be squiggle. Maybe he can be an angle, though? A series of the things? Might dot like this new talent? Well he'd best practice til he can make an infinite number of shapes and even curves. This is all empty though - he needs dot to join in. Can he dazzle her? This is cheerily scored with the subject matter providing Chuck Jones with a veritable myriad of shapes, colours and sizes and though it's maybe a bit repetitive it's still quite a good fun watch and personally, had I'd be line or squiggle I'd have told the fickle dot to get lost!

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
mathematicstransformationidentity crisissurrealismrejectionunrequited lovegeometrypersonal growthchange of heartself confidenceabstractunconventionalromantic rivalshort filmgeometric shapesunlikely romance