Damn fine animated cinema, my friend. The character animation wasn't always particularly cohesive, but the cool color atmosphere and the backdrops were great. Very stylish, the character designs went great with it. Music choice was choice, and the story was great, bringing up really harsh human questions about what makes life worth living, and if life is worth living without the struggles that breed cohesion between people. Damn fine animated cinema.
Reviews for "Crew 54"
I was really surprised by this. It was a bit hard to understand at the beginning and it seemed to have a strange overtone. Halfway through the cartoon, it got MUCH better! I was truly impressed at how much better it got! I will admit that I'm a bit confused by the ending. If he died, how was he there as an old man?
Was he in Purgatory or something and moving on to Heaven? I appreciated the decent animation. You reminded me a lot of those Ninja cartoons that were recently popular. I knew you couldn't be the same guy because he wasn't Russian. I'm glad to have come by this.
very good con-grats on getting it to 15 min
Pacing was slow, and what I got from it was that the old man was never there to begin with because he was shot at that day and died along with his friends. He may have been in limbo, or hallucinating because the fish was infected. He came to terms with his death and now his soul is reunited with the rest of his crewmates. That, or the picture of him getting shot was just his desire to join his crewmates taking form also due to senility. Maybe he also believed that he should have died there as well because it wasn't fair for him to be the sole survivor, taking him closer to the paradise which doubled as both heaven and hell. Of course people have different interpretations of it, but I don't believe that this is as well-rounded and breathtaking as others might have seen it to be. There's no substantial message to it, no underlying moral to enlighten people about the war. It's just the grief factor that gets people to say that it's absolutely brilliant. Story 8/10 Art 9/10 Playful yet with the capacity to shift to a grim mood. Music 8/10 Nothing noteworthy there.
So at first it's a memory of the past, but then he remembers that he was fatally shot, meaning that it was all just a hallucination, but atleast he was reunited with his crew in death. I kinda wanna see Odin, the Valkyries, the Grim Reaper, or any other psychopomp show up to take them away.