Vincent: The story of a little Poe fan

'While other kids read like go Jane go, Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe.'

Vincent is a stop-motion animation film by Tim Burton and it tells the story of a little Poe fan who is living in his own world, pretending that he is someone else called Vincent Price. In every second and every scene of the short film, we are introduced to Vincent's world but this world is straight out of a Poe story: Vincent feels alone and isolated, Vincent's world is filled with tortured souls and Vincent's world is filled with dark, macabre, gothic elements.

Vincent's world is indeed a reflection of Edgar Allan Poe's gloomy, haunting narratives and he ends up losing himself in macabre dreams just like a regular Poe character who is going in between the lines of life and death.

As his fantasies intensify, Vincent feels like his psyche is spiraling toward doom, and he descends into madness. His escapes finally blur the lines of reality and imagination, and his fantasies overtake him.

As Vincent's delusions start keeping him away from the real world, his corrupted psyche loses connection to the realm, and the movie ends with Vincent quoting the last lines of The Raven.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

   And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,

   And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

            Shall be lifted—nevermore!