Sunday 30 October 2016

True Art

To me film is art. However, not all art is created equal. Anyone can create art with whatever means they choose, whether it be with a video camera, a pencil, a pen, paint, computer equipment, anyone can create art. True art however is something else entirely. True art is when you see it and are moved to feel emotion by whichever way it grabs your heart whether that be what it looks like, the meaning behind it or something it says to you that maybe only you can hear. True art speaks to you, although that same piece might not speak to the person sitting or standing next to you in the gallery. Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. If you see it as art then it is art. True art moves the soul.

Film moves my soul more than any other art form. Literature and other more traditional concepts or art can also move me but not to the same level or on so many occasions as film does. Film, to me, is the truest art there is. It has the power to move to me tears on so many occasions. It reaches for my heart and refuses to let it go again. The most powerful is animation, animated film moves me to my very core. The films of Disney, Studio Ghibli, PIXAR nearly all have the power to move me to tears. However, few move me to a point where I just sit there afterwards and take it in. To name a few, Lilo and Stitch, Dumbo, Your Lie in April all move me to a point where I am unable to literally move from my seat or think about anything else, let alone watch anything else.

They move me to create my own art, they evoke emotion in me that few other things can. Film moves me to the point where I can't take it anymore. To the point where I hurt so badly that I can no longer stand watching it anymore (talking to you Dumbo). Maybe it's because they touch a raw nerve but I'm not entirely sure what they have in common apart from being animated. They make me think and feel the way that nothing else can. I believe that is the marking of true art, at least for me anyway.

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Sunday 23 October 2016

Anime revaltion

I have finally given in to the world of anime. I have always watched Studio Ghibli films but never really given into the world of anime series such as 'Attack on Titan', 'Death Note' etc. I decided to check out crunchy roll as that is apparently the best way to watch anime legally (and I refuse to watch things otherwise). I went for a genre that I new I would like, so went for romance. Scrolling down the title listing one particular anime caught my eye: 'My Little Monster'. Oh my gosh, I didn't know I would become hooked so quickly. You know you're past minor interest when you horrendously groan when the adverts come up on your screen. I didn't realise that I would get hooked so quickly, I thought I would enjoy it but I didn't realise that I would finish it within a few days during any free time I had that I wasn't asleep. I didn't even watch it when I was sleepy because I didn't want to miss a minute of this delightful programme.
From the character design (dear god, Haru is the cutest thing in the world) to their outright confessions of love that somewhat shocked me at first but you get used to it. I guess they just talk like that in anime. I love everything about it, and now I just need to find out if it was this specific anime or anime as a whole that I love. I have already begun watching my second anime, around 30 minutes after finishing 'My Little Monster'. (It's 'My lie in April' for anyone that is interested. So far so good, lets face it I'm already hooked.)
I don't know why I never gave in to anime, I mean it makes sense that I would entirely fall in love with it. I love animation and the art of animation, and really anime is just so beautiful its unreal. I love western animation, it is beautiful but in a different way. I don't think anime is anymore artistic than the animation Disney or PIXAR create. I hate it when people say it is because it's just different, not any more or less artistic just artistic in a different way. I look forward to my future anime adventures, woo!

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Sunday 16 October 2016

When you're down

I have compiled a list of films to watch when you are feeling down. Whether you want something to pick you up, let you escape or to get the tears out because lets face it, that always makes one feel better. Let's get started...

Number 1: Lilo and Stitch (2002)
This Disney film tells the tale of an alien called Stitch and a little earth girl called Lilo. It tells the story of how they help each other and those around them with their issues. This one is definitely going to get the those tears out, if it doesn't I don't understand your brain. However, after the multiple emotional teary moments it has an uplifting and very happy (yet still tearful) ending.

Number 2: The Lego Movie (2014)
It literally tells you that everything is awesome (try and tell me that you didn't sing that). This very funny film has punchy jokes, a killer song, and the voice of Morgan Freeman throughout most of it. How could it not lift you up when you're down?

Number 3: Say Anything (1989)
Absolute classic that will lift you and your expectations of men way way up. The story of blossoming young love between Lloyd and Dianne will let you escape whatever is going on in your life, even a hard break up believe it or not.

Number 4: Ghostbusters (1984)
Ok, if that song doesn't lift you up I don't know what will. It's just a fun film about a group of friends that run around NYC catching the ghosts that plague the city. A bit of romance is sprinkled in there among the the sarcasm and sliming to...I don't know, maybe because all films have a romance...I just like Bill Murray chasing Sigourney Weaver ok, it's funny.

Number 5: Back to The Future (all of them, the 1985, 1989, 1990)
The story of time travelling Marty McFly and Doc Brown as they go back and forth between past, present and future (although not anymore technically). This popular 80's franchise could lift me up from pretty much any funk I am going through in that moment, Marty is just so cute and it's just so funny, I love it.

Ok, so if you couldn't tell that I am literally in love with the 80's and so many of the films made in that decade then you clearly are blind and I apologise. Hopefully, this list will help lift you out of the funk you may have found yourself in. But y'know you could watch a majority of these films even when you aren't feeling funky, maybe leave out Lilo and Stitch (it's very sad in the middle but actually bring you down if you don't need to cry). Anyway, thanks for reading.

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