Méliès gives life, only to then take it. A playful, but cruel god of the motion picture indeed. Well, to be fair, at least the conjured figures from the magic book managed to get a few seconds of small talk with the lady before they had to go back to 2D. A brief moment of joy in exchange for the pure terror of ceasing to exist yet again? Was it worth it? That's one of the big questions of life...