Gold Pencil And Alien Boy

Gold pencil and Alien Boy is a very dichotomous film to discuss, especially within a more common review format, it is simultaneously utterly incomprehensible and filled with artistic choices I would call bad at best yet at the same time the film has provided me an abundance of Joy, therefor as a work of art does it fulfill its goal?


it had succeeded to entertain me and allow me to achieve enjoyment, yet it seems to not do this through the intent of the work, If if were to see it as a touching story of childhood perhaps I would fail to enjoy it, for in ... that regards it fails to be anything more than a mediocre film that could easily be surpassed by bonobono or even an episode of sesame street, no what truthfully makes this film so fascinating is similar to what makes the 1976 fensheng bang.

Aspects like off kilter frame timings and absurd animation techniques, horrible sound mixing and literally ripping off pop music for the score (when there is one) it truly stands on its own in this place of a mixture between the naivety of youth and the sentimentality of a genius artist.

Now here is where I must confess something, I do not speak Korean to the extent it would require to fully understand this film, only having done 2 years of high-school level education in it, but I can also say that this film is bootleg to the core and is more about the experience of viewing than it is about being able to understand the narrative, Similar to the music of Aesop rock.

and so in this I will give the film two simultaneous scores, 1/10 and 10/10, it is deeply special in one context and utterly garbage in another, choose what you will.