Sasquash's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[what the people want]

Not bad

I love the way it's so innocent and yet so insultingly patronising.

You've expanded on a popular point and presented your thoughts with style.

It's not the greatest thing I've ever seen. It's not particular mind-blowing or life-changing, but it's funny.

[Los Dias Sin Dias]

Give a one-loin summary of your revue

The style was nice, the animation was smooth, the music was fitting.

The only thing left is the message...

I got mixed messages from this piece.

Obviously I don't understand straight away, and will have to go and think about it for a while, but until then, here's what I got:

First, the french quote. I don't know what the word "lyre" means. Google suggests that it means "Quadrant", but otherwise, this quote says "Stronger than alcohol (the French for alcohol is alcool, by the way), more vast than our (Quadrants?), fermenting the bitter stains of love!". I don't know what this means. It could be describing the feeling of dying, at the point where, just before you die, you suddenly love everyone. This seems to be what the movie is about. A boy or man is hospitalized with some kind of (terminal?) illness, and is having delusions. During these delusions, he falls into a sleep where he is a foul, ugly creature who slobbers and drools. He is visited by a girl who seems to love him unconditionally. She dances for him, ends his restlessness, and gives him a scarf (for warmth? comfort?).

She then goes to the window to make shadow puppets, as if she is making a symbol to the shadowy creatures in the yard to come inside. They do, and the boy/man's skin breaks and out of comes a butterfly/angel who is then stabbed by one of the shadowy creatures from the yard. He seems to be struggling with the scarf(?) before this happens.

He wakes up, and it turns out he had just been jabbed with a needle(?). The doctors turn out to be gentle and happy, and the last thing we see is the face of the girl, smiling.

Could this be indicative of the mental struggle that goes on in a person's mind before they reach the final stage before death (the final stage being acceptance, where the person loves everyone around him/her fully and accepts their fate and dies happily)?

The quote at the end seems to indicate this, or something like it, and yet, if the quote at the end applies, then it suggests that the doctors were, in fact, giving the boy/man a lethal injection (taking away his life and freeing him from Earth). It doesn't quite fit, does it (with the smiling)?

A response would be good.

Thanks for your time.

Scarydoll responds:

The point is that you are trying to analize the movie literally. Try to think of it as a metaphor. Or... well, nevermind ;)

[Davedreams]

That's it?

You know, I accidentally voted 0 for this movie because I had just watched "Gil Quest" and was on this page when I decided to vote for it.

Now, after watching that, I don't regret voting 0 for this film because that's what I would have done anyway.

It's not a bad little movie, by the way. I actually would have liked it, if it wasn't for the fact that it's (as of me writing this review) on the front page, that the first review I saw of it suggested that the movie "had meaning", and that the front page description of this movie, along with the picture of the movie being black and white, implied that it was a deep and meaningful one.

You reckon it's unfair?

This is the reason why the public didn't like The Matrix Reloaded.

Sasquash

PS. Death by a concussive blow to the head (after Dave removes his helmet) would have been a better ending to this movie.

Sundial responds:

YAY! finally a bad review. I dont understand your review. You dont like it because it had meaning? huh? And I loved the matrix reloaded. And if you like the ending that you suggested, you'd like my other movie, "Nick jackson's vengeance" it has a sorta abrupt and violent ending too. Seeya.

[There is no god]

Interesting

That was a funny movie. Your explosion noise was perfect.

It doesn't really qualify for or justify a statement like "There is no god", however.

As such, you only got 3 from me.

[B&W Drama Theater #12]

Beautiful

That was absolutely beautiful.

I loved it.

It truly was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

[Retarded Animal Babies 6]

Genius

Man, you are a genius of modern humour.

I salute you.

[smoke kills]

Perfect Score

That was fantastic.

Corny (Titanic) but absolutely fantastic.

Please write out the Music list in your Author's Comments. They go by and you can't see the list again without watching the whole movie.

Thanks

Sasquash

[is nuclear energy ...]

You probably get this one a lot...

It's convenient you had a large explosion at the end of that, because this piece deserves to be BLAMMED!

Slappy