A master of viral shorts, Steve Cutts is also simply a master animator. Happiness is the apotheosis of both his gritty, graphic style and his caustic cultural pessimism.

Imaging a literal “rat race”, a workaday rat jumps from cheap fix to cheap fix to still his existential emptiness, following whatever trend the capitalist media and advertising industries suggest. Brutally dark, but within that, morbidly funny, from the first stirrings of Bizet’s Carmen at the opening of the film, you know you’ll be onboard for wherever Steve Cutts wants to take you, now and forever.

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