Killing us softly...
A work of art... but why is it timed SO slow?... it would be easier to take if you were not so in love with dragging out every shot and frame. He's depressed and lost, the city is bleak, people are deluded scum... we get it! Move it along! Frankly, the ideas mostly are trite and pretensious, stuff that's been seen many times before, but not unworthy, and something worth watching if you can make it through the increasingly agonizing minutes of predictable tedium. Overall, the style and design is interesting (an comic book you watch and read) with some great touches (the animated traffic and rain effects.) Tell the story you want to tell, but don't make the classic animator's mistake of worshiping every frame you draw. It registers on us much more quickly than you think. And I mean this with respect.