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Angel’s Egg & Malice@doll
Posted by Skrud at Tuesday, July 27th 2004 at 3:43am
So… two more Fantasia updates for you.
<p>First, <a href="http://www.fantasiafest.com/en/films/film_detail.php?id=1006">Angel’s Egg</a> (天使のたまご) from 1985. One of director Mamoru Oshii’s first films, Angel’s Egg is dark and full of fantastic imagery. While there isn’t much dialog, the story is more of an introverted journey that involves, among many things, a little girl who carries a large egg around with her wherever she goes. There are machines of various types that disturb the sanctity of her world, and she encounters a strange crusader character. (I call him a crusader because his weapon resembled a giant cross, as it is no doubt meant to). What little dialogue there is mentions the story of Noah’s ark and questions a lot of it. The film’s imagery suggests some pretty interesting ideas that I haven’t the slightest clue how to interpret at this point. I think I would need to see the movie again (and again, and again) in order to gain some sort of understanding of it. (I kind of wish I took some cinematography classes to learn how to analyze these things). Either way, this movie was pretty deep, and very interesting.</p>
<p>Then came <a href="http://www.fantasiafest.com/en/films/film_detail.php?id=1062">Malice@doll</a>. This movie takes place in the far future ones humans have gone extinct and all that remain are the robots that humans created. Following (what could probably be considered human nature) these robots are mostly sexual “love dolls” designed to adhere to virtually every fetish that man can have. The story revolves around one such doll, Malice, who after discovering a strange hidden area in a “dream” becomes human (through a process involving multiple tentacles). She then proceeds to kiss all of her companions (other love dolls, and their “master”, Joe Admin (a pimp-bot?), as well as a maintenance bot). However unlike Malice’s beautiful transformation, all the others become disfigured hideous monsters. The animation itself is done entirely in some really very awesome CG, which is actually some of the most impressive CG work I’ve seen given the fact the dark CG style of this movie is being used to convey a rather dark and even deep impression of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai">hentai</a> genre. Either way it was a very interesting movie… I think it may have been a little much for Adam though.</p>
<p>Just some food for thought: I’ve noticed (while submitting an entry for “The Bottled Fool” to <a href="http://www.imdb.com"><span class="caps">IMDB</span></a> ) that my site once again appears right near the top when you search Google for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Bottled+Fool">The Bottled Fool</a>. Pretty cool, eh?</p>
