Interpretation of Ki Animation

Proairetic:
A baby is born in a hospital surrounded by people, and is given a key to have around his neck. As the boy grows up he is shown in different environments in a cage, such as playing on a swing set while caged. As he acts like other people he grows to look much like them. Then he gets married, and he takes his wife away to his cage. He is later shown working at an office, the window on the door being caged. Soon he gets old, and is seen in a park sitting on a benched while caged in a cage. Then he dies, and at his funeral someone takes his key from his body in his coffin. People surround his coffin and one person throws in a rose. The camera zooms out of his locked coffin from a crack in it to show that the coffin is locked, and the clip fades out.

Hermenutic:
through the animation, the character has a key that is around their neck, yet they are always locked in a cage or something. The lock parallels the key, and at the end the character is locked in his coffin dead without his key.

Semic:
The character is the same as all the other characters in the middle of his life; he exhibits the same fat form, yet is green to distinguish him form other people.

Symbolic:
Through the story the key represents his way out of his conformist life, and the cage represents the rules and expectations that apply to society.

Reference:
The allusion of the birthing room at the hospital emphasizes the lights at a point in the animation. This is because this may be one of the most evident stimuli new to a baby when it is born.

Diagetic:
The patterned animations that seem to have little meaning in the story tell more than they appear to. When the character is shown walking on a path with several other people, it describes how the person's life is slipping away as they conform to the same old rules and expectations society follows.