I need to start updating now that I have this blog, and I love writing here, the words just flow out of my amateur fingertips onto my keyboard, I will start with a nice little movie a friend showed me, an incredible Musical with no actual dialogue and few actual Sound Effects. And first off, as a shout out to my wonderful friend, if I use the wrong name for any of the characters I apologize. :3
Once more, I will start with a general observations on the quality of the movie without giving away the plot, and head further in as I go on, however this is the type of movie you watch for enjoyment and not to become a Hollywood blockbuster.
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This movie was majorly produced by the french music duo Daft Punk and Toei Animations and under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto. Japanese in origin it is animated a very basic anime format which comes off wonderful. The movie overviews an alien pop band of four nameless blue aliens, identities only given by a few signs waved by fans, Octave the Pianist, Baryl the Drummer, Arpegius the Guitarist, and Stella who plays Base. There is also Sheb who is a fan who seeks to save them from their forced enslavement to the music industry and keep them from being pawns, willing to go to the extremes to do what is right.
The movie depicts how these happy musicians are kidnapped and forced by a Western Music Company to play on Earth and earn them a Gold Record as 'The Crescendolls', their minds are wiped and skin changed to appear humans, so they have no idea who they once were, now nothing but puppets to this music industry. The movie is absolutely full of symbolism related to how only artificial fake bands make it to the top and creativity falls short, given by a semi-hilarious moment where Daft Punk themselves miss an award in their own movie.
The entire movie has absolutely 'no' dialogue and instead consists of songs by Daft Punk that change throughout, giving the mood of each particular scene as the movie progresses. A truely unique approach, but as stated the movie isn't out to win awards or be a blockbuster, I saw it as a movie you watch to enjoy, there is nothing on tv and you see this, you will watch it. A wonderful, fun little story with lovable characters that get off their personalities without even speaking.
In the end, the movie was nowhere near 'high' quality, but it was an 'enjoyable' movie. I would give it a 6, maybe 7 out of 10 for full quality, but in the amount I enjoyed watching it I would give it at least an 8. This is a short feature length film that I 'highly' suggest watching at least once, very entertaining. The movie is full of meaningful references, symbolism, lovable characters, and great music, it makes for a good time if you're looking for something to make a boring afternoon just have that good feeling to it.
