A rare bird in Hungarian film industry in respect of genre as well as implementation. A distopic science fiction in a form of (rotoscopic) animation.
If you tear the story into pieces you will see basically nothing revolutionary (post apocalyptic world, balance of nature and civilization, sustainability, what becomes to us when we die) nonetheless, the movie raises some unique questions. Like, the first given fact is: our body belongs to us for a period of time. But the strongly suggested topic is: who belongs our lives to. The first decisions of the two main characters set a stage for the egoism-altruism dichotomy that will lead through the course of the movie. Long story short it is more like a morality drama than real sci-fi.
And here comes one of the flaws. Although it is set to a post apocalyptic scenery, the cataclysm or cataclysms which basically destroyed the human civilization as we know it... well, if I look deep into it, I did not buy it. It is somewhat forgivable as the plothole serves the the main story and main conflicts quite well, still could have been depicted better or more thoroughly.
The pace of the story unfolding is a bit slow, which can be disturbing, especially as the time could have been used to give us more insight of the current way of life of mankind and the things led to it.
As for realization, the backgrounds and "wider" shots were made in 3d, the main characters are rotoscopic (live action transformed to 2d animation). Some cases the two technologies do not bend to each other perfectly even though both are well done individually.
To sum up, here we have a really rare species definitely worth to watch.
If you tear the story into pieces you will see basically nothing revolutionary (post apocalyptic world, balance of nature and civilization, sustainability, what becomes to us when we die) nonetheless, the movie raises some unique questions. Like, the first given fact is: our body belongs to us for a period of time. But the strongly suggested topic is: who belongs our lives to. The first decisions of the two main characters set a stage for the egoism-altruism dichotomy that will lead through the course of the movie. Long story short it is more like a morality drama than real sci-fi.
And here comes one of the flaws. Although it is set to a post apocalyptic scenery, the cataclysm or cataclysms which basically destroyed the human civilization as we know it... well, if I look deep into it, I did not buy it. It is somewhat forgivable as the plothole serves the the main story and main conflicts quite well, still could have been depicted better or more thoroughly.
The pace of the story unfolding is a bit slow, which can be disturbing, especially as the time could have been used to give us more insight of the current way of life of mankind and the things led to it.
As for realization, the backgrounds and "wider" shots were made in 3d, the main characters are rotoscopic (live action transformed to 2d animation). Some cases the two technologies do not bend to each other perfectly even though both are well done individually.
To sum up, here we have a really rare species definitely worth to watch.