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A film made by
children and to be understood by adults
A very interesting film, both due to the whole idea and meaning behind it,
the film in itself and the message it portrays.
The digital animation of the childrens drawings is far from being tedious or
puerile, on the contrary it is energetic and colorful.
The way the animation has been done, it resembles the different 2D backdrops
of a theater show, that nevertheless are found within a 3D space within
which we can navigate and where the camera movements come to resemble those
of a live film with real actors rather than an animation picture.
This particularity along with the marvelous idea of using the childrens'
original interviews as the characters voices makes this amazing animation
picture shockingly close to reality.
The narrative structure of the film is also highly interesting. With four
childrens stories told simultaneously, initially in the past tense. Getting
up to the main event- their side experience of the "Guerrillas" and then
switching to the present tense.
All these different factors, and the overriding innocence within the
severity of the subject make this film unique. It is a film that gets to you
on a level that no other film ever has done. a film that manages to move us
and drive us off our feet with the strength and truthfulness of a young
child.
10:09:2010 |
di Lily PARMINTER