Being a recovering metalhead, I approve of this soundtrack. 🤘 It’s always surprising to see how much money Québecois productions are willing to sink in to music rights.
Also, having worked in Montréal kitchens most of my life, I would say this is a decently accurate depiction of what it’s like.
Emma Stone has never looked more like an anime character.
Justin Theroux has proven himself deserving of more lead roles.
Sonoya Mizuno has never looked better than she does with that hairdo.
“All the worlds that almost were, matter just as much as the world we’re in”
The attention to detail in this is off the charts. The most innovative and imaginative visuals with a well-written story about survival, and what it actually means to be alive. Well-rounded, developed characters in a beautifully sculpted world of wonder, where the fear of the unknown lurks around every corner.
Nothing much recently has left me in shock and awe like this series has… It’s chock-full of tiny little things that they definitely didn’t need to put in there, but…
Cute, short-haired girl goes around doing good deeds for random people; this movie is the Danish Amélie.
NWR must intend for all his films (at least since Drive) to be set in some parallel universe where only neon lights exist and people barely talk and everyone smokes and wants to kill each other.
I really liked it, but I would rather see some more Pusher-esque or Valhalla Rising-type stuff, especially since he’s returned to his Danish roots after all those…
The way scenes transition feels like it’s meant to disorient or misdirect you, completely denying your expectations, making you question what’s real and what’s not. Nothing like some good ol’ choppy, dream-like sequences to make you question even your own sanity.
There are endless possibilities with animation, so I don’t know how I was still surprised that an anime could pull off the same eerie, uneasy suspense that a lot of live-action thrillers/horrors do so well. So many classic cinematic tools were used to make it feel like it was shot on camera instead of hand-drawn.
Every student has had at least one teacher that actually inspired them and pushed them towards their ions in life. We need more Mr.Keatings and Robin Williamses in this world. It really shows that he was born to play roles like this, he could have just as well been playing himself. It’s a shame that both their stories came to such a tragic end.
I’m surprised Robert Sean Leonard didn’t become more of a star after this, he smashed it.
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”