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jmckenna15
Joined: 23 Sep 2020
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:45 pm
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Watching this film in theaters was a treat. I went in totally blind but I was genuinely moved by it. It was more emotionally resonant in 45 minutes than what most movies can achieve in 3 hours. The animation was very Fujimoto-like, and knew enough to tamper down the dialogue and just let the art and the facial expressions do most of the talking. It had its funny moments as well -- Kyomoto's stammering was cute as were the multiple Chainsaw Man allusions that dotted the film.
A touching tribute to art and the artistic process and it gave me even further respect for Fujimoto as an artist and a storyteller. He might be an absolutely insane human being, but he knows how to pull on the heartstrings like nobody else. An easy 10/10.
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FireChick
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:00 pm
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Yeah, this movie is awesome. Love it. Saw it in theaters and saw it again on Amazon. When that blu-ray drops, I am buying it day one!
Quote: | The closest thing to a criticism I can lob at the dub is that it features a few bits of slang during the elementary school segments that might be a point of contention. |
The slang is particularly noticeable because it was mentioned somewhere that the early part of the story takes place during the 2000s, and having someone say "mid" in a time period when the word wasn't used in its current 2020s context does feel off to me. Of course, that does nothing to detract from my enjoyment of the dub, and totally agree everyone brought their A-game.
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Cho_Desu
Joined: 27 Dec 2022
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:55 pm
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I went into this thinking I'd be blown away by it (since it seems everyone else was) but ended up just finding it... good? It has a really nice art style and animation, and it's clearly a personal work. But I guess I just found the setup with the two characters and the possible directions the story could go in the first half to be much more interesting than the direction the story actually did go in the second. Still think it's worth watching, but I'm a bit surprised this was such a home run with the bases loaded for most people.
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ktarf
Joined: 30 Jun 2024
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 5:01 pm
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Yeah, agree with the review. The movie was absolutely amazing and I love how shamelessly personal it is. It's crearly Fujimoto's answer to the question "why do you draw?", and just like a visual work of art should do, it doesn't answer directly but shows you and makes you feel it together with Fujino.
Also, words can't express how beautiful the soundtrack is. The ending song brought me straight to Heaven.
Now let's hope Goodbye Eri gets adapted with at least this much care, as it is, in my opinion, Fujimoto's masterpiece and as close to perfection as a short story can be.
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omiya
Joined: 21 Sep 2011
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 11:58 pm
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Quote: | she takes her own as her assistant |
Should this read as "she takes her on as her assistant"?
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v1cious
Joined: 31 Dec 2002
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Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 12:59 am
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So theoretically, where would one place this at awards time? It's too long to be a short, but it's too short to be a feature.
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db999
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Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 4:33 pm
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v1cious wrote: | So theoretically, where would one place this at awards time? It's too long to be a short, but it's too short to be a feature. |
At least in terms of the Academy Awards if it's longer than 40 minutes it has to be nominated in the feature-length category, and I'd assume other awards ceremonies would be similar.
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:37 am
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Quote: | However, we see through an imagined sequence that even if their lives had never intersected early on, they still would have crossed paths, as they would have inevitably pursued an art career anyway. |
My read was that the fantasy (?) version of Fujino was doing no such thing — that in a parallel to their first meeting in the “real” timeline, she was pursuing some completely unrelated path, and when she said she’d recently taken up manga again, what she meant was “I decided just now, after listening to you, to do so.”
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