Do animals talk in this dimension?

[sovay]

I had been looking forward for several months to tonight's screening of Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate, 2016) at the HFA, but at the last minute I decided that perhaps I did not actually feel like watching a movie about being chronically-terminally ill in the face of rising fascism and instead spatch and I walked to the Brattle Theatre and saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).

I'm delighted we did. It was great. The visuals were as excellent as promised and the storytelling just as strong. I may or may not write up it properly whenever my ability to think returns, but it was definitely a better choice than TB and World War II.

Comments

[starlady]

The best American animated movie of this century by such a large margin--it was beyond refreshing to see people in this country finally realize that animation is a medium that can be used to do other things than mimic live action realism. And everything else about it is amazing too.

[sovay]

--it was beyond refreshing to see people in this country finally realize that animation is a medium that can be used to do other things than mimic live action realism.

I thought of it in terms of remembering rather than discovering, because animation in this country used to be a gloriously non-naturalistic medium, but otherwise I agree with you. I put the dimension-blending finale right up there with Satoshi Kon's Paprika (2006).