Perhaps the closest animated film experience to the later film productions of Andrei Tarkovski.
Angel's Egg felt like an eternity of some lost soul wandering the unending plains of nothingness to only reflect itself as a dream to me that I will never be sure is just that.
Superb. Just for people who want some mistery and don't mind a bit of surrealism. The rest avoid it, is not for you and you won't appreciate it for what it deserves.
Don't waste your data and your money
this movie for me is more of : “Wtf did i just watch but w/e it's fkin awesome”
A bleak, moody dose of otherworldly weirdness from artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D) and writer/director Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell). As this is primarily intended as an artistic (or poetic?) exercise, the story doesn’t make a lick of sense. Something about a young girl in a floating cathedral, crashing into the ocean and then exploring an abandoned gothic cityscape while caring for a head-sized egg. She meets a rugged male warrior, twice her size but with matching shock-white hair (95% of Amano’s character designs share this feature), and the two proceed to sleep, share Biblical allegories and gaze silently into the abyss. Elsewhere, a squad of ninja launch an all-out assault on a school of gigantic, fish-shaped shadows before disappearing into the night. No further explanation is necessary there, I guess.
Cryptic and weird, drab and sluggish, I found Angel’s Egg dull and unrewarding. The expectation that someone, somewhere, will eventually do something of interest is swiftly beaten out of us, amidst the leads’ glacial migration from one sooty, towering temple to the next. By the time it all draws to a close, after a merciful 71 minutes, I felt little more than relief. There’s style on display here, oodles and oodles of style, but no spirit or structure.
Intriguing with nice animation and art, but too abstract without any real information for the viewer.
The animation first and foremost is the reason I watched it and the reason I think it is worth watching. However, the rest of it didn't really do much for me. Not the story (whatever you can glean from what we are given), the sparse characters, and the complete lack of explanation with anything. I'm just not into movies like that.
I can still appreciate it for the craft involved and rarely have I seen a film that manages to so perfectly illustrate a bizarre but beautiful dream that you wake up from and don't know what the heck it was even about. That's this movie in an eggshell.
Shout by MokiNSBlockedParent2016-02-16T23:10:46Z
This movie is my definition of the phrase "WTF did i just watch".