I finally got around to finishing this film (much like my foray into re-reading and finishing Melville's
Moby Dick, watching this short film was a process of short snippet watches spread interspersed over the past three months), and whilst it took me a long while, I did thoroughly enjoy it. I wasn't too keen on the musical score at first, but after re-watching a few scenes more times than I can recall trying to catch up, I think it added a great deal of body to the product. I also didn't see why "replacement parts" couldn't have been fetched, but I don't really know the working salary of a robot librarian to knon why this wasn't a feasible end-solution.
And dissimilar to
the other product-commissioned short film I've seen before, in this film, I don't remember seeing any overt, or even subvert, "product placement" scenes. Must have happened during the party, but even then, I still didn't catch one glimpse of it (and I watched that scene a few times too many) ; must have to do with it not making any sense of why there would be any drinking at a small shindig mostly-being-attended by automatons.
Anybody else watch and enjoy the film?