the bizarre things people lose in australia
Imagine yourself out and about one day and coming across something very strange. Something that you don’t know how to describe, something that seems lost, confused, and out of place. And when you try to return it to where it belongs, you find that no one around you seems to care or notice, giving you the cold shoulder and a dismissive, annoyed glance. How do you get that creature back to where it needs to be? And speaking of that creature, what is it and why is it here? This is the premise behind the children’s book The Lost Thing, and the short film based on it was even nominated for an Oscar for its storytelling and top notch technical quality.
The interesting thing about the book is that you never quite find out what the creature is or why it was where it was, or even if it ended up where it was supposed to belong. In fact, all you really know is that the weird thing exists and there’s someone interested in it. But not much beyond. So what do you think the book’s main ideas might be? That we all run into things we don’t understand and probably won’t? That what’s weird to use goes unnoticed by others? Or that we need to be on the lookout because we never know what we may spot next? Or that the mad scientists/alien hunters in Australia tend to leave their bizarre experiments just laying around?
