i...don't...get it...
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?
Tight Visuals
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! =]
absract,
dark, intruiging use of sound and sillouettes. A respectable interpretation of human sublime 8/10 good work!
Dante's Inferno
Heavy and unfulfilling, nothing like a comedy and more like going through hell. Points for the red.
Interesting, but controversial.
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?