Friday, August 14, 2009

The Iron Giant


www.anchoragefilmfestival.org

Some people who are animators told me this was a good movie, and I’m always interested in an animated movie that gets a good review.
A movie that believes in itself, carefully crafted, and having a soul. And yet—it doesn’t seem to care about the deeper issues it raises, or it sees those issues in a an unaware, popular-art, folk-art way, so that it seems to be in mono, not stereo; to put it another way, it seems to be a movie for children, or for the child in an adult (not that there’s anything so wrong with that), not for adults. Compare Persepolis.

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