I was planning on watching the anime "A Silent Voice" (2016) at the film festival but decided against it. I had already watched the 1991 classic "Bingo" that day and three films is enough.
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| That dog got up to some bloody shenanigans |
I also watched "MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate" (2001) but that is a blog post for another day.
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| Just as nature intended |
Instead, I decided to watch a piece of Spanish nightmare fuel called "Psychonnauts, the Forgotten Children" (2015)
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| Psiconautas los niños olvidados, to translate it properly |
This really wasn't my thing, I'm afraid. There was a lot I enjoyed. I liked the way the frames all looked hand painted and the way it looks like it's ripped straight out of a finely illustrated book. Visually stunning, let's say, if I wanted to copy that quote from every film critic ever. It WAS visually stunning, though. However, it was like watching a horror film in the sense that the world the characters were in was really grim and terrible and I found the characters to be grim and terrible, which was absolutely a style the movie was intending to convey, but personally I'm not really into horror. I can absolutely see why this got such acclaim because it is really unique, but here are some of the unsettling and horrible things that I didn't want to spend my time with for the duration of an entire film:
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| A giant bird that is also a man |
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| A sad bird/human who's addicted to heroin |
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| A psychotic hallucination induced by having too much heroin |
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| A spider that crawls out of a pig's nose while the pig is also on heroin |
The whole film seemed painful and grotesque to watch, which is fine but I don't think it's a style I would like to emulate. Maybe I'll watch "Most Vertical Primate 3" to calm my nerves.
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