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Soul 2020
Soul uses the familiar struggling artist trope to explore familiar themes like passion vs practicality and discovering ones raison d’être. I liked that Pixar even decided to tackle this kind of story, as I thought their expertise in simplicity and emotion building would do well for this kind of story.
The film started off pretty well, introducing the viewer to the world, the characters, and the conflicts in an efficient way. Once the main conflicted started, however, Soul really went…
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I Lost My Body 2019
I Lost My Body builds a story on a uniquely endearing and relatable concept- a hand as a surrogate for the physical texture of memory. The film follows two story lines in parallel- one of a severed hand in search of some kind of resolution and the other of it’s owner, Naoufel, an ill-fated young man.
Visually, I was less impressed with the actual animation though I thought the film did well in using color and drawing to create a world with…
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tick, tick... BOOM! 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Tick Tick Boom is a semi- autobiographical film adaptation of three person musical (which was rewritten from a one-man musical) about Jonathan Larson writing a musical.
to distinguish between Tick Tick Boom the film and Tick Tick Boom the musical-
The musical is a witty, satirical, comical love letter to musical theater and New York City. The film however, is not great. It bounced back and forth between a stage production of TTB and the story on which TTB is based,…
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