its lengthy but worth the time!
I thought the animation was pretty good! The story is pretty accurate. pretty good u decide.
Reviews for "Autumn Tree"
Meh... Not that great.
Frame rate was poor. Content was a little sickening. I know it's the truth, but still, there's something wrong in there that I can't quite make out.
The animation got really poor near the end, and you'd think this would incite more emotion than just a little disgust, and a yawn. (Is a yawn even an emotion?)
Overall the looks were good, but without the movement, that doesn't cut it.
My suggestion is this: You're obviously talented people, but you need to apply your skills better. Perhaps you could spend a little more time on a shorter, higher frame rate animation.
Misguided
Technically, this film is adept. The concept behind it is where the trouble lies.
What happened at Columbine was tragic, there is no argument. And while I consider myself a leftist, I refuse to give sympathy to sociopaths. I had a shitty high school life too. I was picked on and had the shit kicked out of me and called every name in the book. But I didn't pick up a gun and hold target practice at lunch hour, and neither did the thousands, if not millions, who can sympathize.
So why do kids bring guns to school and take their revenge that way? Maybe because stuff like this, or Gus Van Sant's Elephant. While I thought the film was exceptional and this flash (at least in terms of construction, animation et al) was well done, both make the mistake of glamorizing/exemplifying Eric and Dylan as tragic martyrs of a society that had no room for them, and that's precisely the message to give if you want this to happen again.
I guess if I have to shrink my thoughts to a sentence or two, it would be this: life is hard for everyone, and most of the time it stays that way. But the truly strong are the ones who survive. Those who bring guns to school for their "revenge" are merely cowards, not heroes or martyrs, and there is no beauty in their plight. Just the ugly truth of what they are: murderers.
Bad Reprsentation
Where the hell is the socialism. These kids were hitler idoliters. You completly missed the point of thier motivation, thier influences, environment, and personal style. "Besides" the nazi stuff. Complete lack of gracful transition in thier emotions. Where's the rage and the hate. Where's the drive in these charicters. Basing all the little things on facts doesn't constitute accuracy. You can't throw in references to movies assuming we've all seen them. They don't do a good enough of establish an atmosphere or state of mind in the kids. Your attempt to show it from all angles really leaves you with none. So what if you don't know what they were really thinking and feeling at those moments. You don't have the luxury of knowing thier charicter so craft one! For the love of god you could have given us a little charicter developement.
There's no good reson why you couln't use the real killers names and apperance.
It all to soft. Your leaving to much to the viewer to fill in the appeal of the movie by fantasizing it's deeper than it is. It needs to be more dynamic, and pull you in. Horrible enough to "make" you watch. Insted I see bad anatomy and events that blunty show what's happening. The story seems to told childishly, not meshing well. It doesn't seem done yet. Spend more time in the animation department, and throw in an event or two to let us get to know these kids and watch them change.
You've missed the fantasy.
Deep...
This was an excellent piece of work. The message really gets across that what happened was horrible. In a way, it also gets across the message that the shooters were trying to make. Things go way too far. This was just beautiful. Really deep, it touched me.