The Lost Thing The Lost and Found (The Lost Thing) is a short film that won the 83rd Academy Award for Best Animation, directed by Chen Zhiyong and starring Tim Minchin; the story is a metaphor for the inner world of people who don't fit in, are alone, and have lost their way in life.

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The boy who loves to collect bottle caps finds a strange looking "thing" at the seaside. People around him did not notice this "thing", but its sad, lost look, but attract the boy's eyes. After some investigation, the boy got the conclusion: "It was lost" but no one knew the origin of this "thing". The boy's friend Pete thinks that something is "just plain lost" (just plain lost); the boy's parents want him to bring this "thing" back to its original place because "it" may carry a strange infectious disease.

Everyone seems to be focused on their own business. As the boy pondered the solution, he glanced at a newspaper classified ad that read: "Do you feel that your day-to-day, regular life is often interrupted by things that come out of nowhere? For example, objects that have no name, things that are owned by unknown owners, things that don't belong to you, remnants of a filing cabinet, annoying artifacts of unknown origin, etc.

Don't hesitate! Let us handle it for you." So, the boy took the "thing" and set off for the city, looking for this gray building. The original thought that the "thing" so found a suitable home, a seemingly octopus, with a tape on the back of the cleaning staff, a painted arrow business card to the boy, "If you really care about this 'thing', bring it here. In this way, the boy followed the map (arrow) to find this place suitable for "ignoring, forgetting and covering up".

The story ends with a flat tone, with a faint sadness: "These days I see less and less of such things, perhaps they no longer exist, or, is that I no longer pay attention to them. Busy with other things, I think. "