This is actually a chamber play - frame sets it, voice-over, some scripted reminders to stay us in the world outside of "the Castle (actually The Hollywood Castle, all fake and strange), while the whole movie takes place inside of the house.
Elaborate story, just to be able to say that
1. People are losing connections and there is a price to pay
2. Love is about giving
3. Families and humans in general are best off honest and frank.
10-15 years under way, several died, before it was released, missing scenes (I assume) were done with animation (great!! - because the movie doesn't need cinematic violence), all roles were filled more than adequately, it was (according to the director) intentionally made ugly for the first 30 minutes to "lower expectations"), and someone said "it was like Ed Woods had made a movie with Stanley Kubrick.
I was so certain in my evaluation that I went and scored it after 30 minutes - lest I would forget. You can detract from in on many levels, but it has that thing. Where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts added up.
My only real critique is a logical fallacy at the very end. The inventor could not in the recording, which everyone in the world knows, have spoken of the fate of the Lead, before killing himself, as the movie Without Ward takes place after the death of the inventor. Or I missed the mark, where it became a Time Travel movie?
But even this rather big thing for me, as I maintain a list of Time Travel movie from 1895 and on, diminishes in importance, because the film just has "that thing, you know".
8/10 (maybe even 9, if someone can negate my question.)
Elaborate story, just to be able to say that
1. People are losing connections and there is a price to pay
2. Love is about giving
3. Families and humans in general are best off honest and frank.
10-15 years under way, several died, before it was released, missing scenes (I assume) were done with animation (great!! - because the movie doesn't need cinematic violence), all roles were filled more than adequately, it was (according to the director) intentionally made ugly for the first 30 minutes to "lower expectations"), and someone said "it was like Ed Woods had made a movie with Stanley Kubrick.
I was so certain in my evaluation that I went and scored it after 30 minutes - lest I would forget. You can detract from in on many levels, but it has that thing. Where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts added up.
My only real critique is a logical fallacy at the very end. The inventor could not in the recording, which everyone in the world knows, have spoken of the fate of the Lead, before killing himself, as the movie Without Ward takes place after the death of the inventor. Or I missed the mark, where it became a Time Travel movie?
But even this rather big thing for me, as I maintain a list of Time Travel movie from 1895 and on, diminishes in importance, because the film just has "that thing, you know".
8/10 (maybe even 9, if someone can negate my question.)