Plastic schizophrenia.
The first time I saw it was when I thought I was 9 years old, but even then this cartoon was far from new. We then had a friendly DC, where almost free children from school went to watch strange new movies and cartoons. It all made a strong impression at the time, because working with the visual seemed to be
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Plastic schizophrenia.
The first time I saw it was when I thought I was 9 years old, but even then this cartoon was far from new. We then had a friendly DC, where almost free children from school went to watch strange new movies and cartoons. It all made a strong impression at the time, because working with the visual seemed to be on the verge of fiction, besides it was the first work for me that explored the topic of death so deeply and emotionally, talked about it from different angles for an entire hour, beautifully and inspiringly. At the time, it was a kind of revelation. Especially touched the moment when an old man and an old woman, preparing for death, write their diaries next to them, and then he writes alone. It broke an emotional barrier. And a writer who is not afraid of death, but who follows it himself, is something new for a child-viewer, a break in the template, because other cartoon characters have never chased her. When I left the room, I realized that I was experiencing a new emotion, a mixture of delight and grief, from which I wanted to be silent, because this feeling was stronger than words. Much later I learned what this feeling is called. Catharsis.
Alas, to experience this cartoon, you first need to be a child and secondly to watch on the big screen. Adult look dispels almost all this charm. And it’s not the fault of that view itself – the piece does have a very big problem. This is the case when the authors were too carried away, and they were carried away. They had plasticine, you could do anything with it. And unfortunately, the authors did just that – they did anything. Everything. An airship with teleport doors and an animatronic arm chasing a comet, two Mark Twain dating their characters, speculations on the subject of Adam and Eve, Satan, the ghost of a character in an alien paradise, a frog disabling the self-destruct system, a living caryatid on the nose of an airship beating meteorites... You realize that's crazy? Yes, some viewers and critics appreciate this flight of fantasy as a manifestation of pure creativity, unfettered at all. But since childhood, I was a supporter of the position that works should be adequate, structured, and the schiza should be let off the leash only sometimes. The cartoon has a semantic core: Mark Twain wants to die beautifully, believing in his connection with the comet, and on his last journey he is accompanied by his favorite characters, with whom he experiences a number of small stories. That was absolutely enough for a good story. But no, for some reason they sculpted Satan, who wants to prove it is unclear what, portrayed Adam as a complete idiot, made two Twain with the idea of a light and dark self, although the topic was not disclosed at all and was not needed in this work, and many other deranged images.
Over. It was possible to make an adequate cartoon, but the authors did not want this. They realized the limitlessness of their creative possibilities, so they completely lost the vector, began to talk about everything in a row, and the result was confusion. But again, there are some strong scenes here, and they deserve attention.