Im an animator who studied at the national film school of Ireland.
I'm making a short film atm!
also i never update my films oops
I was lucky enough to see this in the lighthouse as part of the Lynch memorial and they showed several of his little YouTube clips before the movie and it was very emotional :')
There was a point in this movie about 50 minutes in when the tension felt so layered and complex and I really felt I was watching something big taking place on screen. Sadly that faded, and the film ended up retreading itself a bit and really not developing the complexities it set up. There were a couple more really excellent scenes, and there definitely are themes at play that are explored pretty competently if not developed to completion. I think…
This is a film that hurts. I love a film that makes me really sad in a cathartic way, but A Real Pain just left me feeling sad. It's very powerful and affecting, but not a fun experience. I hope Jesse Eisenberg keeps writing and directing films.
ok to preface, i did love this movie. it's very fun, and obviously more wallace and gromit is never bad.
that said, as a movie about AI, its themes are extremely muddled. AI is bad except when it's good, the creator of the movie's AI equivalent is a benevolent naive do-gooder whose invention is only made bad by a supervillain, and that equivalent is also necessary to the movie's finale to save the day after it's repurposed by the heroes.…