OK, a man in a pink bunny costume is squatting on a street corner in Los Angeles and a woman is doing the same in another neighborhood. Is this a movement? Performance art? A statement of some sort that no one clued the public to via the internet -- or, is this the kind of displaced experience thousands of immigrant populations face trying to find work, create a new life, and survive in the dehumanized void of urban cities?
Bunny is a comedy-bittersweet drama that draws attention to the experience of one eastern European couple who leave an inhumane existence and find themselves in another. While the humorous idea of adults in pink rabbit costumes seems silly, is it any more silly than thousands of qualified professionals from other countries forced to start over at the bottom of the warren. The frustration of professional education and previous work experience worthless in their new life force adults to accept jobs of mind-numbing and questionable worth just to survive.
Bunny makes statements flatly political and ironic, but with humor that allows the audience to feel unthreatened. Slowly however, the laughs begin to fade as the situation of the film's married couple, both working bunnies, begins to alienate and ultimately degenerate their identities and marriage. With little dialog, the silence of the film forces audiences to watch the actors every nuance and facial expression, while we contemplate its larger message and resolution. What a novel idea of a silent film, but it is not really silent as allowing for silences.
Not your average indie or even typical film school exercise in Kafka, it is a film for audiences who like to be provoked to think. Bunny is not CGI and T&A mindlessness. It is an original and unexpected vision of film making by a young director which succeeds in its originality of story.
