Highway Jenny

basically an extended journey through one man's mind and his contemplation of life, death, war, etc...also it's a meditation upon love and love lost for the girl jenny set to some really beautiful music throughout - the songs echo the thought of our protagonist in a really amazing way with atmospheric, moody, psychedelic music...the art/animation is really amazing and very minimalist, just white lines on black background with words of poetry coming in and out...if you like really artsy, impressionistic, and poetic stuff, you will like this, if not, stay away, as this film definitely is not a straightforward story in the conventional sense, more ... of an extended tone poem on lost love...genius!

"I enjoy the sickness of my heart
And I tread up a trail that lead along the frozen highway
My head was numb and I was starved
But right from the start, I had this calling"-Madrugada

If you have made it here then I salute you,along the tombstones where we all await.Have you ever stood on the pavement,smoking a cigarette,starring into the night sky,remembering all those things about her ? About the one that made your heart race and dared you to dream an endless dream ? If so then you will heavily resonate trough this journey of a man's lonely and broken soul,only memories remaining until eventually they ... become ash.But what of dreams ? Dare to dream a long forgotten dream ? Even if impossible to happen ?

While centered primarily around one person,this OVA also has a lot of subtle undertones.A minimalistic image with surrealistic music accompany this visceral and somber ride.

"Nihilism" is just reality.

While it's not in the tag system, I think that this should be aproached entirely as a musical, because it is. The music feels a bit disjointed, sort of like Daft Punk's Electroma, but while that one had a very basic plot that felt sort of empty this one has a mess of a ideas a bit too pseudointelectual for my taste (humans are the same as animals, every day people are born and die, I'm just one more of them, "Motherfucker while you sleep your all my sheep I'll conquer the world", all this taken from text on screen). If you can see it ... all as music lyrics then, you know, music doesn't tend to get the most insightful stuff in the world anyway. You're not going to get mad at Interstella 5555's lyrics.

Visually it's a mixture of rotoscopy, computer generated backgrounds in lineart and extremely hands on snippets of either constantly changing figures or hand written stuff. It feels like a middle point between one of the less interesting Waking Life parts and 12oz Mouse.

The music is okay for me, but I think this is the key point for enjoying this. If it's you enjoy the sound then the pictures pass as an extra you didn't ask for. If you don't you'll suffer through trying to understand what's the point of all this and how has it been only 18 minutes so far.