Phenomenal soundtrack from Hiromi, and probably the most accurate animation of characters playing instruments I've ever seen - Tamada's drum solo was exhilarating. Though minus points for the jarring CGI/hand drawn mix. The animation was beautiful, but what was that storyline? I've never read the manga but I have a feeling that the story doesn't feel as cheap as in the anime
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The Brutalist 2024
So gorgeous as a vessel for a story, so terribly unsatisfying as a real existing film. It's revolting! Disgusting! Absolutely liminal, unbounded by time and place despite what the timeline suggests. Contradictory, juxtapository romanticism of an architect's life - an unboring life that every architect secretly hopes for, I think, at least a little bit, instead of being just another draftsman. And for once, a period piece in which the woman is a motivator, a free thinker, a fighter? The…
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