Rebekah Cook - Bunny

I remember seeing the Bunny short film many times growing up but always thought it was just a cute story.  After watching it in class and talking about it, I can understand the deeper meaning behind it.  The oven is a central theme as it represents something very powerful which can transform one thing into another, like death transforms us.  The timer represents a clock ticking down to the final moments and dings when the bunny’s time is up.  While the oven represents death in the film, I think the fly also represents death.  The bunny is constantly trying to get rid of the fly because it won’t stop buzzing around her.  Finally when the timer dings, the oven opens on its own waiting for the bunny to come to it.  She climbs into the oven after the fly which gives her wings and she begins flying toward a starry sky, symbolizing that it has transformed her.  To me this shows how people never want to think about death, they want to rid their minds of those thoughts and I think the fly is a good representation of that.  It was foreshadowing that her time was coming to an end, but she didn’t want to think about it until the timer dinged and she was finally at peace with it all.