That pregnant woman who got eaten by the pterodactyl-esque things reminded me of a fairly obscure fairy tail-y thing, and the part with the... uh... cat soup seemed rather similar to Hansel and Gretel. I got the overall plot, but did anything in the middle mean anything? Also, what's with the ending? Did anyone get anything? Question mark? Argh!
shareI think the point was to make the viewer go "awwww" and then "ewwww" as many times in a half hour span as possible.
Just keep telling yourself...its only a poodle...it's only a poodle!share
I think the point was to make the viewer go "awwww" and then "ewwww" as many times in a half hour span as possible.the single best statement of the board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekojiru :
"The major themes of her work are a child-like zaniness, cruelty and nostalgia. And, as we know from Dream Memo, included in the posthumously released compilation Nekojiru Udon 3, many of her bizarre works of fantasy were based on her own dream experiences. Psychedelic mushrooms and LSD also often appear in her works."
All I understand is psychedelic mushrooms and LSD... I think that explains everything right there.
If an author never wrote a sequel, she knew when to end it, but movie people don't.
it always came off as rather taoist to me
shareIt was confirmed from the director that none of it really meant anything.
In an interview he stated that people put a lot of their own meaning into it, but basically it was whatever he thought would be interesting, while keeping it based on the surreal rare manga on which it was based.
Well, I think that one theme in this movie was rascism and koreans and chineses in Japan. "It's just a pig"
sharethe thing that is cut in half by god and has the red stuff in it that disrupts to gear work of the universe contains "primordial soup"... :] there's a lot of references to a lot of things. if the whole thing was supposed to mean something, i don't know--but the little brother got his big sister back...and then everything glitches off because, afterall, they aren't real--just animated things.
shareI think sometimes art can just be "random" creation. It doesn't have to have a meaning, but the viewer can put a meaning to it. Now I haven't looked into this subject, but look at the painting Andy Warhol did of the soup can. He may have just wanted to paint a can of soup with no underlying meaning, but people have studied it so much that they put a meaning to it. I may be quite wrong about this, but it's just an observation.
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shareIt has meaning AND it has no meaning.
It's all very Zen, eh?
But seriously, everything you see or experience affects you and therefor has meaning. Even just replying "no" means... something :)
Yeah I thing the "aaaw" and "eeeew!" thing is correct, mostly "eeew!"
here's the plot:
the cats sister is sick and he sees her being taken into the underworld by the god of death. he grabs her and her soul is split in half. when he comes home he gives her back half her soul. the rest of the film is their journey to find the flower where the rest of her soul is hidden. though i'm still struggling over the end.
"here's the plot:
the cats sister is sick and he sees her being taken into the underworld by the god of death. he grabs her and her soul is split in half. when he comes home he gives her back half her soul. the rest of the film is their journey to find the flower where the rest of her soul is hidden. though i'm still struggling over the end."
That's my exact take on it as well. As for the ending, I'm as clueless as you are about that.
I didn't even try to analyze this one. Just enjoyed the animation and the creativity.
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