The short wants to be metaphorical but in my opinion fails at it.
The metaphor is so vague and unpronounced, that it answers nothing.
When the boy asks a question about why he's blue you'd think this is the main idea of the short. But, the mother just ignores it and starts talking about curry. (I know this curry metaphor is supposed to answer the question of the boy, but it did not answer it.)
If she'd just had said:…
Great dialogue and interaction between the characters. They all have well developed personalities and this makes it all believable.
Some nice tempo changes throughout this little short. Subtle, yet effective.
Colour palette looking like everything is at sunset seems like an obvious choice and might not seem creative given the story and setting, yet you've to make it work too - which they did!
They understood their story and worked it out beautifully.
Z
Got to see this one at Annecy 2024. Didn't know anything about it, or anything ultraman related even.
Overall a good effort with some very good looking shots from time to time.
Lovely visual style too that clearly tries to use comic book influences.
However, it contains quite a few plotholes and non-sensical moments.
They try to make it a character driven story, but in reality it's almost only plot driven.
The baseball matches come and go when useful for…
This one was one of my priority screenings of the Annecy 2024 animation film festival and it didn't disappoint. On the contrary! An absolute beauty of a movie.
A great experience as well to have another 1000 people in the Grande Salle who also laughed and cried together at this world premiere.
Adam Elliot builds further on his (and his team's) skills he already showed us before on Mary and Max and makes Memoir of a Snail a beautiful successor.…
