Mezame no Hakobune

An ancient anime artefact, this is, probably, the only way I can find to describe this relic. You simply cannot ignore “Mezame no Hakobune”, its power is almost unreal. This CGI animation will pull you from within the depths of the ocean (SHO-HO), as you swam with whales and sharks and rays, lifting you then, leading through a surreal stream of consciousness. Transpiring widely across the skies (HYAKKIN), will acknowledge you as you watch, through the eyes of the seagulls, the land from above. In a more somewhat melancholic, yet enlightened finale (KU-UN), you might question, and wisely doing so, the very origin of life; thegenetic roots from humans to dogs. Oshii Mamoru-san is the director, do I guess that’s everything needed to be said. The soundtrack might surprise you, because this is a well-known and superb collaboration, being Kawai Kenji-san classical suspect behind the score; you Ghost in the Shell aficionados are in for a pleasant surprise, it is honestly perfect. Lastly, I have to say that “Mezame no Hakobune” is ultimately a triumphal piece of art; to tell a story with simply images and music is overwhelmingly beautiful, and this one in particular speaks directly to our hearts.

What did me push to look this roller? The name was pleasant. I expected from the film any wildly philosophical loading which should be submitted in intricate history. But what there was my surprise when any posing appeared only closer to the end at last. I will not tell that before it wasn't. Simply it reminded me the program for music listening, no more. So at once I warn is not any petty history about love. The film is a mix of computer animation and live shootings, it consists of three parts. And after the endured disappointments and considering, I can declare- it is atremendous trilogy! Here it is exact: open the reason and enter into the world of dizzy beauty. Plunge on an ocean floor and from there be praised to skies where you will meet the most improbable beings … And this travel is improbably courageous in the irreality. After all it is not simply video. This is immersion in the world of other, unknown Japan. Music of Kendzi Kavaya so accurately transfers the atmosphere and touches for soul, as difficultly to describe as far as everything perfectly turned out! At first sight it seems, what there is a set of musical clips. And his founders probably wanted pleasantly to spend time and simply create a beautiful video series, being guided by soul command. But if to get accustomed, it is possible to find the ciphered thought which doesn't rush at once to eyes. Authors wanted to tell that each live, being on the travel between heaven and earth, bears the information mission. What is unites us? DNA existence. At the same time it unites us and at the same time it grants everyone identity. And DNA is not source of the imagination and dreams. It is necessary to change slightly something and the world can change to unrecognizability. Little change in a chromosome site - and we already in other, alternative reality... Watch this clip if it is interesting for you to come to other world of animation and it is simple to relax.

Medium-length movie directed by Mamoru Oshii to represent Japan at the Aichi expo. Oshii's has touched the visual ceiling of animation, visually I have not seen animation movies as tremendously impressive as 'Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence' or this one. The bad thing is that in 'Open Your Mind' removing the sublime that it is in those aspects, it left me a bit cold in what it tells, I felt like something is missing. Here we see an association of images and concepts that seem to represent the creation and evolution of life on planet Earth. It all starts with a meeting of gods of various religionsin a forest. All of them are impressive, especially Anubis that seems tremendously powerful and it is to whom more attention is given, possibly for having the same ears as the dogs of the Basset breed that appear in all Oshii movies. All those gods are those who start the beginning of the universe, they are before the big-bang in a forest that is not known where it comes from, on a morning when time flows slowly. Then the explosions begin (the beginning of the universe), the water in which the fish appear later; then we get closer to the sky, to the birds, to that feeling of freedom, to that evolution in which the creatures already take flight. From there everything is complicated with games with DNA, dogs, human babies, dog-human babies, centaurs and other mixtures that seems to suggest that they could have happened. Visually it is a jewel, in everything else it is just good.

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