The Night is Short, Walk On Girl:
It's a Japanese film by Masaaki Yuasaabout one girl and her night of crazy misadventures, as well as a really horny guy who's trying to find her so they can fall in love.
There's also a wide range of wacky characters that she bumps into.
I liked the art style. Normally I'm not mad about anime character design because they all have a creepy spaced out stare and everything seems really fetishised.
But this art style seemed more unconventional. I liked the BRIGHT COLOURS and more simplistic, but nonetheless detailed look. I've watched very little anime but the character animation seemed more fluid and dynamic than in other Japanese films.
The MAIN lesson I can learn is from the camerawork, though.
This film used the camera so creatively, flipping through multiple art styles and going inside characters' brains with elegant scene transitions. It exemplifies the unlimited possibility of animation and I wish more animated films would go wild with their cinematography. It helped the film keep a really good pace.
I didn't like how the male protagonist was a creepy stalker though. It didn't make me invested in his plight.
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| "Won't you have some wine, matey man?" "SHADDUP I'm trying to be a creepy creep and stalk this girl" (Direct quote) |
Notes From Another India: Shambhavi Kaul
The 2nd thing I went to see. It was an Indian Artist displaying her short films. I felt like I would've appreciated them more had I searched deeply for a powerful subtext, but I wasn't in the mood to.
On a purely aesthetic level, the short films had a good sense of texture and showed the world in a beautiful way. It was very relaxing. So relaxing, in fact, that I fell asleep for 45 minutes of the screening, which I why I'm not able to discuss it at length.
