Post by Capo on Apr 17, 2007 23:00:08 GMT
MirrorMask
Dave McKean 2005 USA / UK
A teenage girl whose family works in the circus enters a dream-induced world when her mother is taken into hospital with a tumor.
Imaginative and, for the most part, impressive, and close at many points to being really, really good, but making the decision instead to go down familiar paths regarding story (it's basically The Wizard of Oz). It feels like something you'd see on CITV after coming home from school, though the final third enters confusing territory - it could have had a far richer texture, though, a more deeply embedded fabric of subconscious exploration, than it ultimately does. At one point, for instance, it is suggested that the dream we have entered might be somebody else's, but it's an idea which is discarded as quickly as it is introduced; and the book-ended realities, especially the one at the end, detract heavily. Still, though, the music is very good, the creatures are well designed, and the humour, if often misplaced, has its moments.
Dave McKean 2005 USA / UK
A teenage girl whose family works in the circus enters a dream-induced world when her mother is taken into hospital with a tumor.
Imaginative and, for the most part, impressive, and close at many points to being really, really good, but making the decision instead to go down familiar paths regarding story (it's basically The Wizard of Oz). It feels like something you'd see on CITV after coming home from school, though the final third enters confusing territory - it could have had a far richer texture, though, a more deeply embedded fabric of subconscious exploration, than it ultimately does. At one point, for instance, it is suggested that the dream we have entered might be somebody else's, but it's an idea which is discarded as quickly as it is introduced; and the book-ended realities, especially the one at the end, detract heavily. Still, though, the music is very good, the creatures are well designed, and the humour, if often misplaced, has its moments.