This film felt somewhat like an incomprehensible marriage of Into the Void (2009), Waking Life (2001), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). I'm unsure if this is merely a pompous way of saying that watching this film is how I imagine it would feel to drop acid and do magic mushrooms simultaneously, for the first time.

What would have been a compelling journey led by stimulating, wonderfully colorful animation is led to an abrupt halt by how the haphazard foley and…

Media productions of the contemporary East Asian mainstream are marked distinctly in my mind, by the medium I feel encompasses the strongest contributions per region (I regrettably can't speak to all) and the respective particularities of each: Chinese cinema is poised, historically rich, a bestowal of total visual opulence; Japanese animation is evocative of an extraordinarily poignant nostalgia seemingly distinct to the continent at large; and South Korean cinema is likewise characterized by its delivery of this, but live-action and…