Creepy Kermits

At the beginning of that video with the "puppet frogs" I thought it was kind of creative, seeing the puppet appear to play the trumpet (music seems to play an ever present role in the story; a sad trumpet in the beginning, more up beat music when they all act as though he's still alive, and a violin at the dinner table, etc.) Anyhow, when it first started, I thought, "Okay, it's a sort of mellow sounding tune, so I guess we're going to be introduced to a sad story." And then when it was clear there were like a hundred Muppet frogs with pupil-less eyes tucking the deceased man into bed (who I assume is their creator) the initial sadness was replaced by a sort of horror and at some parts, humor- I think the fact that the puppets just assume that dressing him up and acting as though he's still with them is okay is disturbing enough; something about a dead body seems to, not quite scare most of us, but at least cause us to be sensitive to the deceased, out of respect. The fact that the puppets crossed that line so easily (and that they could act independently of a controller at all!) was enough to elicit uneasy reactions. It's furthermore disturbing when he is a puppet and is sort of dancing with the other puppets around him.(It almost ties into the Uncanny Valley in this way; when he was at the dinner table and for the first time is seen as an actual puppet with propped up arms and such, his movements were very unnatural, and obviously limp, so just that visual alone is creepy...by the way, what was on his face in that scene? ) I would imagine the line between dead and alive would have been, in some sense, blurred by the man in the first place when he made all those puppets. The home film they watched in the little movie theater would suggest that the man had a kind of connection and empathy towards what he had made, even though he is aware that he is the only source of their appearance of life.

( speaking of the Uncanny valley, it is interesting that because of the story with the man being dead, the filmmakers wouldn't have had to worry about making the man appear life-like in terms of intentional movement, or facial expression, except in the home video clip of course).