Pain and sorrow. Completely heartbreaking.
RIP David Lynch.
Pain and sorrow. Completely heartbreaking.
RIP David Lynch.
The shot of the forest marching is absolutely stunning. Unreal and magical like not much else on film.
"Reality is often nonexistent at the highest decision-making levels. This is especially true when you are losing a war."
Hyperreality; bleak, cerebral, dense. Calculated meandering in that way I love: the transience, the presence of the burning cold air on a lamp-lit late night stroll. The gentle twilight balance of musings and reflection. An unremarkable, familiar, tangible future, constructed in awe-inspiring technical detail, in schematics and mechanics.
Patlabor 2 is just the kinda flavor profile I adore from Oshii. As…
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every time i've watched this i cry for the entirety of the 3rd act