Dec 26, 2021
Presumptively, the namesake of this anime is the line from Macbeth, in which he suggests that life is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Which makes for a fairly apt description of this OVA, or rather, OVA with the incidental bit of live action, although it's really just a compilation of a total of 9 music videos, and while most music videos like to include a bit of ambient noise or dialogue, usually to try and stop people from ripping them off Youtube, there is none at all here, so the only thing they have to work with
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are the visuals. Which were at least good, apart from one of them which had some rather poor CGI, it was all of a high quality, the production value's all there, but only sometimes did it feel like they were really putting their all into it. One of the characters who appears multiple times is a hitman, who's got one of those credit card payment machines which goes off every time he kills someone, and more importantly, both the usage of the angles and his physical movements each time he shoots someone are something which are certainly stylish, and in the 3 minutes in which he's going around killing people, it's fun to watch, one of two parts that I thought were legitimately good, the other being a POV from a cyborg who is denied entry to a bomb shelter, (or, as they called it, an LGBTQ safe space), and then has his last moments with a cat as everything is destroyed around him. Despite its short length, this particular one has some impressive visual design, they could've just made some generic high-rise apartment buildings and nobody would've really noticed, but they made some legitimately cool looking sci-fi architecture. Comparatively, the undeniable absolute worst of the bunch was the one where some samurai just dances with a bunch of topless geishas, with the incidental eyesore Instagram filter laid on. Maybe it was wrong of me to not expect to see a dance number in a compilation of music videos, but considering this particular piece maintained the previously established setting of future samurai with motorbikes and rocket launchers, you would think they'd have done something with it, it feels very last minute and out of place, and it's not the only one of its kind, not to mention, the worst thing I can say about it is it's uncreative, there must be thousands of music videos out there which just involve dancing and nothing but dancing, they made an effort to depart from that, but they must have ran out of time, because it's not the only one of its kind, as there's also the opener which is just 3 minutes of watching a car drive at a leisurely speed towards nowhere in particular.
Feels a bit weird for me to write and not talk about the story, but it probably also felt weird for the people behind this to make a piece of audio-visual entertainment in which they were entirely barred from using the audio part in order to tell their story. Sound & Fury is far from bad, despite a few pieces that fell short, I did overall enjoy it, but their good ideas were spread very thin. All things considered, if you want a piece of animation with no dialogue, minimal story, and some quality music, you'd be better off watching Tom & Jerry.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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