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This part, just… o.k., let me say this.

The details are just flawless.  This is the part where Easter is ruined, if I remember right.  The top gif, you can just feel the concern, the pain, just… Jack watching as Bunny essentially feels what he’s been feeling for 300 years.  There’s this feeling of, “No, no no, I couldn’t have done this, I wouldn’t do this…”  The second gif continues that, but the third gif sort of clenches it.  It adds something else: guilt.  Like, “I caused this,” “I did this to someone,” “I made someone feel this awful.”  And there’s this look of, “Maybe I can explain it, maybe… but would they understand?  Would Bunny understand?”

But what I also want to note is how the movie pays attention to its background characters.  Look at Tooth in the gifs.  I always wondered, the first time I saw the movie, how when Jack came back North and Tooth were just like, “Hey you’re back, good,” like, they forgave him so easily, you know?  But look at her in these gifs!  It’s like, “Oh Jack… oh god you didn’t want this to happen, did you?”  Like, she knows, she gets it.  She gets how Bunny feels, but she gets how Jack feels.  She knows Jack cares about them, and knows that this is the last thing he wanted to happen.