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this was a good flash with great graphics and the story that people need to hear so u got my thumbs up on this flash
Reviews for "Suppressed Emotions 4"
Good message.
Some people need to know that it's ok to take risks. They get so worried about the pain they might feel that they create real problems for themselves.
Pain is a part of life. Its ok to hurt. But it's good to feel joy as well.
When you choose to trust someone, you are taking a calculated risk. They might let you down. But if you don't place your trust in anyone, then they will never be there if you need them.
If you try, you might fail; but if you don't try, you will never succeed!
interesting
Dork666 - It's easier to start a fire then prevent one, if you keep wanting to start fires you're going to get burned.
1) - I am not sure of the state of the author of the flash, the flash however is definately egotistical in its nature. The whole point of it 'is' to open your opinions freely on the subject, not to assume a high ground. You criticize the flash author as being a 'whiny bitch' and go on a pseudo-intellectual rant about how wrong he is and how he is sensationalising it. This is NOT the intention, I seriously doubt anyone is as One-dimensial as the character on stage (do forgive me author, I just believe this is the unconcious 'Jungian shadow' aspect of your personality, it isn't your actual personality - I think your intention was to create discussion and not sympathy).
NOW IF HE WAS, the flash would be 'oh so emo' and portraying it in a melodramatic way.
2) Dork666 you pulled a straw man argument with the analogy of this movie comparing to people with social phobias, you made him appear like an arsehole, and not too mention he replied politely to you and shown you courtesy. You throw it in his face. You're attacking the author and not the flash.
3) He left himself deliberately vulnerable, you should of not taken the movie so literally, i believe his intention was to criticise the 'woe is me' people and not to glorify it. I don't think he glorified it at all, im sure everyone's been there where they don't feel comfortable with themselves, i honestly doubt the author wants to be lonely and cacooned or pushing people away.
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Sorry, onto the flash. Awesome use of cinematography, very retro-victorian. I must say impressive use of one-perspective-drawing, it must of tooken time with drawing all those chairs. You managed to create a '3d' effect with the floorboards and the stage when the camera was rising higher. I know you used maybe at least 3+ layers for this camera action-script effect. How do you transform a 2D pseudo-3D perspective room and give the illusion of 3D movement in flash? (when the layering objects are obviously going to be tricky as there has to be good timing to do sync. Maybe this is why you zoomed in and out instead of side to side with the camera as this would be very difficult).
I probably advise you read Nietzsche(For his aphoristic writing style), Schoepenhauer(for his pessimism) and Chuck Palahniuk (for his style) and you can go along way.
Maybe you should of made it more clear to the audience at the end and ask them a question like 'If you where me, what would have you done?' this is breaking the 4th Wall yes but its effective.
Maybe one criticism was the walking looked a little goofy but that can't be helped it is very difficult.
Can you email me an actionscript for zooming if possible? I would be very greatful, if not its cool.
desc3 responds:
Thanks man, I really appreciate what you said! By the way, there's no camera action script or anything in this movie. I basically worked with stretching and twisting the floor and shoving the rest along. I had to use movieclips for every character-movent so it would run smoothly, which made it a real pain in the ass to create the stop- and play-buttons. ^_^'
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To locate ones happyness in and around freindship - 'where all your problems will fade' - stands to criticism. While the work is well designed, the spacific locus of the subjects 'emotions' were lacking. Taking the puppet stage as a motif and the particular narrative style serve to make this a fable. The subjects appaernt lack of escape except though the very institutions that lead him there is not critically brought up - an essential part of the fable that should have been explored.
Any more and it would turn into a paper criticising how you misplace the notion of human subjectivity and particularity within a socialy mediated discoruse that essentially seeks to undermine its very particularity - which is correct if read in light of several thinkers of 20th century social thought, namely Ardono and Heidegger in particular against a confrontation between Hegel and Nietzsches' appropriaton of a Kantian polemic that stands in the center of the notion 'I'. But thats for a paper.
I'd rather have those minutes back
But that is only the case with your this flash. I like your others but I just dislike this topic. As for the flash quality and sound it is getting better with each flash. I gave a one for violence becuase he died at the end. I will have to keep an eye out for this series.