I just finished viewing Vexille, then I read the review from TwitchFilm, and I gotta say I completely agree with the reviewer's assertion. While Appleseed has a number of interesting scenes, this is the stronger film overall. The animation is crisp and believable, the settings are beautifully realized, and the narrative is stronger by far and carries with it a poignant message of dissension to benign racism and ultra-nationalism.
There's a recurring scene in the film in which a "community leader" sits vacantly and hangs his head. This basically captures in a snapshot my view of the adult Japanese person - the conservative fatalist who contemplates a pressing issue for a long time and in the end makes the wrong choice. I'm glad to be proved wrong in this case.
7/10
There's a recurring scene in the film in which a "community leader" sits vacantly and hangs his head. This basically captures in a snapshot my view of the adult Japanese person - the conservative fatalist who contemplates a pressing issue for a long time and in the end makes the wrong choice. I'm glad to be proved wrong in this case.
7/10