A definite love letter to space-race! Sadly, I didn't "like it".
I certainly appreciate the beyond-impressive visuals and animations, and world-building (how people live, made-up alphabet and numeric system) made for this alternate-world Earth! A project made to show a studio's ridiculous talent! ..not to make a marketable product. A beautiful movie that is worth watching for that alone. But the story is seemingly unstructured movie (although it has a very defined objective to which it develops).. with undefined characters and rushed development out of nowhere (and some questionable actions). Dead space and slowness.
So, should this even be judged as a movie? If you know about it's production and such, no. As a general movie goer, it's kind of disappointing. It tries to convey a lot (about war, civilization, religion and mankind progress as a whole), but does so poorly. The story, as it is given to you, is disappointingly simplistic and lacking in many parts. MAYBE this is one of those movies that only a "lucky" few will come to truly understand, and only if they have access to whatever message, theme and ideas the creators wanted to impart onto it.
So, if a part of the movie was undercooked, and another was their primary focus.. Why should we be expected to care?
I certainly appreciate the beyond-impressive visuals and animations, and world-building (how people live, made-up alphabet and numeric system) made for this alternate-world Earth! A project made to show a studio's ridiculous talent! ..not to make a marketable product. A beautiful movie that is worth watching for that alone. But the story is seemingly unstructured movie (although it has a very defined objective to which it develops).. with undefined characters and rushed development out of nowhere (and some questionable actions). Dead space and slowness.
So, should this even be judged as a movie? If you know about it's production and such, no. As a general movie goer, it's kind of disappointing. It tries to convey a lot (about war, civilization, religion and mankind progress as a whole), but does so poorly. The story, as it is given to you, is disappointingly simplistic and lacking in many parts. MAYBE this is one of those movies that only a "lucky" few will come to truly understand, and only if they have access to whatever message, theme and ideas the creators wanted to impart onto it.
So, if a part of the movie was undercooked, and another was their primary focus.. Why should we be expected to care?