Forum - View topicREVIEW: The Case of Hana & Alice
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Zin5ki
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I admit that the word 'kooky' strikes me as quite an odd one, Andrew. I knew not that it held any currency over here, though I imagine it conveys this film's crux quite appropriately. |
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AholePony
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I loved this movie. Enough so that I imported the bluray though I can't understand the language
Great review, you hit on all of the technical flaws in the story and pacing as well as the shortcomings of rotoscope animation. Using your word, kooky humor of this flavor is rarely found in anime. You can tell this script was written by someone that recognizes the inherent humor in "the human condition", and how people, especially young ones, can be real goobers at times. |
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Lemonchest
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I'm curious to see H&A. I like rotroscoped animation as a technique, but it's one that, unless you have a lot of money & time to throw at it, almost always comes off looking inferior to either traditional animation or live action. I liked Linklater's films, but I doubt this had the budget or production time of those & they were set in intentionally strange worlds to match the style.
Only example of rotroscoped anime I can think of enjoying is the Peeping Life series, because the technique lets them capture all the small body movements that happen in normal conversation which would be lost in anime's typically much more static presentation. |
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vanfanel
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Looking forward to revisiting this one. If you've watched much of Iwai's other work, you'll definitely recognize the loose, meandering style of the script. Sometimes, IMO, Iwai's scripts seem to get away from him, but this one is quite well put-together, and if you like his gentler, more down-to-earth stuff like "Love Letter" and the original "Hana and Alice," I think you'll enjoy this.
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Doodleboy
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Despite the clunkiness one thing I enjoyed about the Rotoscope format is that it preserved the actor's performances. It makes it interesting to compare the film to performances by animators. There are so many random movements and nuances in the film that wouldn't be in a normal anime, even by more naturalistic directors like Okiura.
Or rather animation tries to simplify things and pull out the key parts of the emotion, while live action includes alot more randomness sometimes adding things that nobody could've thought up on the drawing table. I enjoyed the film, it was fun, even if it was two middle-schoolers making dumb decisions. |
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