For the movie to watch on my 34th birthday,I decided to choose one of the movies that has been waiting years (!) to be played. In the mood for a Anime, I got set for a memorable viewing.
View on the film:
The lone story not written by Katsuhiro Otomo, the screenplay by Satoshi Kon for the opening tale, brilliantly continues to build on the recurring themes across Kon's works,in a compact form. Landing on a space ship whose distress call has been frozen in time, Kon welcomes the investigating crew with a eerie Horror atmosphere sprung from an increased blurring of dreams and reality (a major Kon theme) spun from Eva Friedel's memories haunting the ship.
Writing the other two stories in this Sci-FI anthology, the scripts by Katsuhiro Otomo (who also directed the third segment) wonderfully link them together via dark satire and allegorical menace, with Otomo being inspired by the real Gloria Ramirez incident, in having Tanaka spread his deadly stench completely unaware, whilst Cannon Fodder charges up the existentialism of a meaningless/never ending war.
Drawn from three different pairs of hands, the animation is linked to each tale with a incredible, hand drawn-animation clarity, from the detailed drawing of Eva's memories and the gas following Tanaka on every step he makes, to the smoke from the cannons of Cannon Fodder clouding the memories.
View on the film:
The lone story not written by Katsuhiro Otomo, the screenplay by Satoshi Kon for the opening tale, brilliantly continues to build on the recurring themes across Kon's works,in a compact form. Landing on a space ship whose distress call has been frozen in time, Kon welcomes the investigating crew with a eerie Horror atmosphere sprung from an increased blurring of dreams and reality (a major Kon theme) spun from Eva Friedel's memories haunting the ship.
Writing the other two stories in this Sci-FI anthology, the scripts by Katsuhiro Otomo (who also directed the third segment) wonderfully link them together via dark satire and allegorical menace, with Otomo being inspired by the real Gloria Ramirez incident, in having Tanaka spread his deadly stench completely unaware, whilst Cannon Fodder charges up the existentialism of a meaningless/never ending war.
Drawn from three different pairs of hands, the animation is linked to each tale with a incredible, hand drawn-animation clarity, from the detailed drawing of Eva's memories and the gas following Tanaka on every step he makes, to the smoke from the cannons of Cannon Fodder clouding the memories.