Reviews for A True Story about a Man

[Cyberdevil]

Hmm, that kinda spiraled out of control. :/ Plotwise not much is happening, it seemed like a good premise for something to happen, but it never really does. He goes over to the car, goes back, changes topic... feels like there's a lot of talking (a lot of repeating topics and phrases too) but very little getting somewhere, within and outside the speech. Graphics work with what's being said, but on their own they're not too amazing, feels like at least some color might liven things up a bit. Speech never stops, which is good, but it doesn't entertain as much as I hoped it would. Keep it going!

-cd-

tonyfamous responds:

Thanks. :-) It did happen. I was a witness. It was me. I was there. :-) I pretty much talked the this off the top off my head, so it wasn't scripted or anything. I'm sort of an Animating Minimalist because I suck at Animating and I put almost no Animating effort into this because I didn't think anybody would watch it let alone seriously critique it. ;-)

[NeonSpider]

You probably made the situation worse for her though. She probably got beat later at home for "embarrassing him" earlier due to your intervention. Just know that.

Unless you can get someone completely out of an abusive relationship and permanently away from the abuser, they'll just retaliate later. And most people who are in abusive relationships don't want out, don't see their abuser as abusive (instead blaming themselves), and/or will immediately go right back to another abusive relationship right after.

You can only help someone who wants to help themselves.

tonyfamous responds:

I disagree with everything you said except the people wanting to help themselves part. At least that guy knows that he can't get away with smacking her on a public street. I could help stop that. The rest is on her. On my part, when growing up my dad hit my mom and I wished that more people weren't afraid to do something or say something about it. Even our family wouldn't help. He was a big guy, into drugs and a psycho so she did the right thing and kicked him out so we wouldn't have to grow up in an abusive household. I can tell you a lot about what we went through but it would take hours.