5 reviews
Creative and impressive in the technical side, but as a narrative I was left unsatisfied and on the outside looking in
A punky young girl lives in a grey and slightly oppressive city. She queues at an administrative building to have her paperwork stamped by an old woman but gets distracted by a colourful bird at the window. This leads the old woman to stamp her hand impatiently – an event which later leads to significant changes for the girl and those around her.
I'm not sure why I do it with short films, but I do find myself sometimes praising the technical side of them even though generally it didn't work. I do it again in this case because we have a film with a modern urban fairytale where some sort of witch condemns a young girl to death by her own poison – that of color. This leads to some impressive and occasionally gruesome special effects and the film does indeed stand up well as a showcase for the imagination and technical skills of those that made it. However around this it feels unsatisfying; we never understand anything about the events and we never really do more than watch them unfold. Yes this at least offers spectacle (although being honest I had to look away for some of it) but by the end it feels hollow.
It isn't like the film feels like it has a bigger story to tell that it is building to, it just doesn't provide much around the edges to work from and it did leave me cold. Technically it works and the creativity in the concept is worthy, but ultimately I felt unsatisfied by it as a whole.
I'm not sure why I do it with short films, but I do find myself sometimes praising the technical side of them even though generally it didn't work. I do it again in this case because we have a film with a modern urban fairytale where some sort of witch condemns a young girl to death by her own poison – that of color. This leads to some impressive and occasionally gruesome special effects and the film does indeed stand up well as a showcase for the imagination and technical skills of those that made it. However around this it feels unsatisfying; we never understand anything about the events and we never really do more than watch them unfold. Yes this at least offers spectacle (although being honest I had to look away for some of it) but by the end it feels hollow.
It isn't like the film feels like it has a bigger story to tell that it is building to, it just doesn't provide much around the edges to work from and it did leave me cold. Technically it works and the creativity in the concept is worthy, but ultimately I felt unsatisfied by it as a whole.
- bob the moo
- Apr 2, 2014
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A bland and boring "horror" film from a writer and director that loves to steal ideas.
This film was hard to sit through, but sadly that didn't surprise me as so are Pete's other projects.
The coolest part about this film is the name, which I'd be surprised if Pete didn't steal from somewhere else too. If you aren't aware of his habits of lifting IP from other work, check out his scam NFT project called Fuzzy Felons and you'll get a taste of how he likes to steal source material, and then run off with the money for doing minimal effort.
That IRL story of theft is at least more interesting than this film.
The coolest part about this film is the name, which I'd be surprised if Pete didn't steal from somewhere else too. If you aren't aware of his habits of lifting IP from other work, check out his scam NFT project called Fuzzy Felons and you'll get a taste of how he likes to steal source material, and then run off with the money for doing minimal effort.
That IRL story of theft is at least more interesting than this film.
- Online_Movie_Enjoyer
- Jun 22, 2022
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United colors of
whatever!
It seems it has some kind of political and idealistic message,
but I think it didn't work
at least for me!
In fact I didn't find it that good
and the originality and creativity it clearly tries to have had an opposite feeling on me.
Originality and creativity turned into weirdness and incredibility.
The visual effect it's supposed to have is quite pointless too.
I didn't find it funny at all, because neither I get its message nor I have been amazed with its colorful bright !
I score it 3/10!
but I think it didn't work
at least for me!
In fact I didn't find it that good
and the originality and creativity it clearly tries to have had an opposite feeling on me.
Originality and creativity turned into weirdness and incredibility.
The visual effect it's supposed to have is quite pointless too.
I didn't find it funny at all, because neither I get its message nor I have been amazed with its colorful bright !
I score it 3/10!
FX Showcase
Director obviously just wanted to showcase his fx skills with this. Nothing spectacular
- blazingflame-27326
- Dec 31, 2018
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a poem
- Kirpianuscus
- Nov 8, 2017
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