Amazing movie!
I really loved the way you conveyed your thoughts in this movie....keeps interest and makes people think. Awesome job.
Reviews for "counting bodies/neocon"
Cool!
Next you should show the blue democrats killing babies, oh oh and then have two of the male blue guys get married to eachother. Just have them break every morale that this country once stood for, that would be awesome.
Overall awesome movie, the graphics were stunning and the animation incredible (though the elephants walk cycle looked a little funky) You got your message out there, though I totally disagree with it. Theres alot of good happening in this war, and the media only hides it. And your certainly not helping
it was alright...
...but...what the hell? Fuck USA
Give this a thought...
I'm a social conservative, and I thoroughly respect your views. However, I want you to consider the following so you can evaluate the messages you're sending out in this flash. The aim is not to sway your views, only test them.
First of all, the idea behind war in Iraq is to prevent a society like the one you portray. In a theocratic dictatorship such as those found in the Middle East, religion is law and dissent is treason. While I don't think it's our nation's place to go and wage war, I think more people should stand back and realize what the war is really about. It's not killing for the sake of killing--the way Republicans see it, it is the way to prevent a totalitarian regime from controlling the lives of its citizens. The Patriot Act and HSD do not contribute to totalitarianism; they are meant to fight actions, not words.
On the note of dissent, I watch Fox News. I don't buy into everything their reporters believe, but don't shut them up. I think it's fine to have a more conservative network; what right does ANYBODY have to get bitter if there is a single news organization that doesn't agree with all the others? How about a little dissent? Anybody has the right to disagree with Fox News' viewpoints, but squelching them altogether is an attack on free speech. Get as many views from as many angles as possible, and the truth comes clearer into focus.
The whole concept of the reds versus blues comes off as divisive to me. It sucks that there are those Republicans who would label Democrats as sympathetic to terrorists, but it does not help to portray Republicans as these Nazi-like individuals. Sorry, but I think this kind of mudslinging exacerbates the problems we already have in the country.
Now, to expand on the Liberal-Conservative fallacy. The political spectrum is not a line. It is instead a circle, wherein moving too far to the left leads to the right, and vice versa. Neo-conservatives make up the Republican party for the most part today, and they take a surprisingly liberal stance of expanding the government by extending its control. A traditional liberal government viewed as closer to the Democrat party's goals is more like Socialism, in which the government would help out citizens with free healthcare and a broad range of services in exchange for higher taxes. As a social conservative, I think that the government works best when smallest, with no frivilous taxes to pay for the beauracracies of the current system. Truth is, the Democrats and Republicans are really not very different in the long run--in the end, we're all living in a constitutional democracy, and the checks of power between branches of government keep everything on track. The society your flash portrays really shows the dangers of a government moved too far to the right OR left: totalitarianism. It is potentially dangerous to tie the problem to just one party. Society is moving in a pretty steady direction, and the solution is for both parties to work together, not pull in opposite directions.
All this is simply my analysis; I don't expect you to come out of this a different man, or even to change your views a single bit. Keep doing what you're doing to warn the unweary, but you may get an even wider audience if you keep your views less partisan.
Besides all that, I rated your flash on artistic merit as you requested. I think the graphics could have been done better, or at least varied a little more. The animations get a bit repetitive with everybody walking the same way (but this could also be a social statement). Also, when something reflects in a mirror or reflective goggles, the image should be reversed. I don't like A Perfect Circle too much at all so I dock major points from the sound category (I wish MJK would just stay with Tool). There was no interactivity, no humor intended, and I don't consider violence to be a determinant of my rating. Keep up the work and you will definitely make some killer flash in the future. For now you get my six out of ten for the good effort bogged down by music I don't enjoy.
This country needs more truth-tellers like you...
...who tell of the grim future vividly and convincingly.