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Score: 10

"????"

by: Arexeum

date: November 30, 2009

Sorry I dont quite understand this pice of work, please send me a message and explain it, i just started watching the NOIR section XD

Score: 10

"Excellent"

by: Gobblemeister

date: November 21, 2009

I think I see what you were trying to communicate, or at least my interpretation of what I saw.

I think that it is about a man who commits suicide. He had been a man of God and lived his life by his word. But, in one fell swoop he betrayed him.

By taking his life he not only betrayed his family and his loved ones, but God. God who had breathed life into him and shown him the way. He gave him purpoes and this man decided that the life God had given him wasn't what he wanted, to the point of suicide.

Then comes the dilemma of the elevator. He, along wiht the other spirits reach the elevator. Many will descend and others will ascend. But this man can choose, can he take the penalty for taking a life, his own in this case, or will he face God in heaven.

CAN he face God, doing what he did

Score: 7

"i...don't...get it..."

by: Leafy-Greens

date: October 19, 2009

i probably just missed it, but... um... is there any explanation to this? it just seemed completely out of the blue to me... then again, i am agnostic, and apparently it's a religious short...

...but really, where did the title come from?

Score: 8

"Tight Visuals"

by: kreoche

date: October 6, 2009

I would hardly call this preachy. I see here an old preacher who's lost his family, so he walked away from his faith, and took his life. Yet in the afterlife (very nice depiction! Gondolas, Elevators, Ferries), he still went Up.

I've witnessed something similar in my life already (and I suppose this is my interpretation); I don't see why people believe that suicide is an instant ticket to hell. I'm thinking it's a scare tactic used by the Far Right-Wing influences; however justifiable the motive may be, I think it's an incredibly misleading (rather, completely off-base) concept. I don't think God's some sort of prick who wallows over technicalities; I mean, Christ is supposed to mediate that sort of thing, no? Anyway, I come from a religious background, if it wasn't obvious, so that's where I'm coming from with the interpretation. :p

Anyway... the film: it looked nice! Again, I loved how you differentiated between Earth and Purgatory. The sfx were spot-on, and the glow/blur effects were used nicely. However, when the preacher gets on the ferry, the chain-link barrier is severely rasterized, while the man's silhouette is vectored (very smooth). I'm not sure if that's a contrast you were trying to make, but it seemed to take away from the quality of the scene. Overall, it was an excellent short! =]

Score: 8

"absract,"

by: wildpandagames

date: October 3, 2009

dark, intruiging use of sound and sillouettes. A respectable interpretation of human sublime 8/10 good work!

Score: 9

"Dante's Inferno"

by: Blapple

date: August 20, 2009

Heavy and unfulfilling, nothing like a comedy and more like going through hell. Points for the red.

Score: 7

"Interesting, but controversial."

by: doido69

date: August 18, 2009

First of all sorry for my english, I'm from abroad.

Second of all - It is the kind of animation I've been looking for. Something with a meaning, something that may trust you some kind of purpose, but only if you enough brains to understand it.

At first I tought it was some kind of abstract, meaningless and another full of bullshit noir animation that fills up NG to its tops.

But by the third time I watched it, I was finally able to understand the pain of the character.

Your vision of the purgatory is deturpated, but yet creative. I've never seen that before.

I am a strong atheist myself, but I respect the christian ways, and more than that, I like it - when it is used for the right pourposes, wich means peace, mind and salvation.

But let's supose that I belive on all that crap:
Ok, so the guy loses his wife and jump of a bridge. Wich means SUICIDE, wich means "You automatically go to hell", according to the book theres no salvation or forgiveness for suiciders.

How do you explain that?

Score: 5

"???????????????????????????????????????/"

by: boshy0boy

date: August 6, 2009

okay i don't really understand it but my mate took weed and he said it helped

Score: 7

"Nice symbolism"

by: Duiliath

date: July 30, 2009

It's quite intriguing and thought provoking to understand the meanings of the scenes but to me it's way too religious and preachy, I quite hate the concepts of religions so to me it was a major draw back.

Score: 10

"Woah.."

by: animchan

date: July 14, 2009

Very disturbing, but good.. somehow I manage to grasp what's behind it, but I'm not sure (TheHollowSoul explanation is good). Nice, you make it look dull and gloom, very nice - the sounds kinda creep me though.

10/10, 5/5 and fave.