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★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I haven't talked about the humor in these films yet and I was pleasantly suprised to rediscover that this film is actually incredibly funny.
Obviously marxist too.
Obviously.
All these films rely on that satiristic charm of quintessential english/northern english/lancashire staples but come to think of it the humor's done on a foundationally brechtian structure.
Obviously all satristic humor and to be honest all contemporary humor is reliant on Brecht, but although these films aren't as overt as like a…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jan 2025
I suppose because of the nature of stop-motion animation, especially in the era so unrefined (because you’re defining it), having to work so strenuously (amplified under Park’s level of detail) forces you to deeply engage with how crucial everything must be in the film. That is a thought process exclusive to the material conditions of the medium.
This strenuousness is why stop-motion animation is a medium inherently against capitalism.
Taking incredible effort for such little labour produced is a rebellion…
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★★★★ Rewatched 01 Oct 2024
I love this beautiful mess
2nd half poorly paced/adapted, they should have killed Paul Rudd and paid off on all that smarmy build up
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I do not understand any of this but I understand it would be beautiful if we were all simply in love and probably autistic
The film piracy site I was using devolved a third of the way through the film and the audio became out of sync with the video and I wasn't sure if that was a glitch or narrative feature or I was losing my mind or a combination of all or some of those possibilities. I had…
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