Yoru no Hi

It's very tricky to review movies such as this.
They're all so very abstract and open to interpretation... oh, and short.

For what it is, I find it brilliant. The story is meh, but who needs a story when you have such an ernest setting; the characters are meh, but you learn everything you need to know about them.

The art is brilliant and the score isn't far behind. The story, if you can call it that, is lovely.

It's a movie meant to transmite a feeling and I have an idea what that feeling is and you, after watching it, will probably arrive at a different conclusion, ... but that's exactly what this types of movies are all about.

At the end of the day, the most important thing is that you feel something and I did.

Feel. Philip?

I only watched this on Youtube and it's 240p only, very blurred and I don't know where to watch it anywhere outside Youtube. I don't know what to feel about this short video but it's very interesting. I wonder what's the meaning behind it.

Well, the art style is pretty interesting, I wished there's more to it tho. Very limited color pallet for the art style which, the animation isn't really that great compared to other animation, well it could be the signature of the artist. Story wise, there really isn't anything much to say, like.. what's the context basically? I just don't understand it, ... hahaha.

I rated this 5 as I just see this as average.

Rate a 4
English dubbed
Genre:art film
Special Note: The only reason this film is marked as english audio or dubbed in this case is because of background chatter of a couple seconds of radio. Aside from that there was no spoken words or subtitles.

Story/art
Unclear. Going from the art you see no color aside from black and white. Which one might dismiss to be an old film but they would be wrong. Instead the black and white concept was used in effort to produce a gloomy outlook. As for the art style it was mostly uncut drawings back to back. I say uncut because you can in a ... way see eraser marks. As to why that approach was chosen i am not sure. I am guessing it added a certain statement on constant changes. So, one could say with this information thus far that the story was a depressing tale but on what remains a mystery. My theory is that the message was masked emotions are found in infants. While we want to construct them in the best way we can we can't for what they want won't be clear until they have grown up. Or simply put the madness of the young-lings.

Sound
Clearly off tempo. Also, there were opportunities missed where sound could have been added such as the intro, the child, and the fireworks.

Overall: this film would be best appreciated if you liked films that plot were left unclear or unknown. Or if you are an art lover and would like to see a different type of artwork expression(style).