The good news is that the controversy around this creature, which is supposed to be similar to artificial intelligence, is unfounded. Bad news? Good…
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when Jarrar For A24 Ochi legend The film was first shown for the first time, and some critics of social media (ridiculously) expected that the film was produced by artificial intelligence, which caused a strange sensation on the Internet. Perhaps the glimpses of her fictional world were very clean, slightly immersed in the glow of the bright nostalgia that we now connect to AI-SSP, so that we do not feel that she was present in the physical space. This strange controversy has reached the point that the film’s writer and director Isa Saxon, I felt that she had to respond. It turns out that the opposite is the correct: the effects were largely the result of dolls and mobile electronics that were carried out with great care, and the settings were often a mixture of Roman sites and non -shiny paintings, all of which were supervised by the obsessed Saxony, a musical video director who spent years. Working on this is his first movie. When watching the movie itself (which was first shown in Sundance, before being shown in theaters on April 25), we can feel the level of details and sensitivity that contributed to the imagination of this hand -made world to a large extent and the strange creatures with fur in the middle. Ochi legend It looks great real. It is a fantasy that makes it difficult to believe it is a fantasy.
This is good news.
The bad news is that the same level of attention and care does not seem to have extended to the story or characters, which is fatal for something that is supposed to be a legend in the modern era. Fast plot appears to be collected from general parts of fairy tales and other myths. Yuri (Helena Zengel), a girl born to the father (William Davu) who wanted a boy, finds herself escaping with a lover of Ochi, a type of fictional majority whose community lives on the island as a war with. The bent, the frightened and the armed father, like the homeless knight, collects the village’s youth in an attempt to fight a battle with these alleged “spites”. After her father and followers chased her, Yuri tries to locate her mother (Emily Watson) and then tries to lead her wing safely to Ochi’s imaginary land. There is no real form of their trip, and there are no bumps, subcalities, or unexpected surprises; Until the tumultuous separation period in the supermarket in the modern era it looks like a predominantly defined in advance. The child Ochi, looking for the whole world as if he is preparing to experience performance for Gremings Restarting, evoking the memories of the classics of the eighties. But at its best, these films contained unforgettable wild stories. Their concepts were simple, but they sent us on a journey full of anticipation, terror and sorrow. There is a reason for people to continue to watch these films, not because the effects were great.
On the contrary, Saxon’s ideas about the character looks very rare for what a simple, exciting and profound story should be. The father, who is lost in depression without love and lives in a world of solid combat surfaces, spends his time in listening to the contemplative Russian chants. The mother, whose home looks full of plants, listens to Italian pop songs. If we discover these contradictions, it is assumed that it will form the psyche of these characters and may fill the details of the reason why they are unable to live together, and why Yuri looks quiet and conflicting as they are. But this type of shading does not succeed unless there is already some weight of the characters. Here, they remain just thin paper, and empty embodiment awaiting someone (scriptwriter, director, actor, someone) to fill it with life.
Likewise, we were told that this island was struggling with modernity, and suffers from an existential crisis because its ancient traditions and its irrefutable methods are exposed to technology and foreigners. It is a promising idea that is directly inspired by the school sociology book, and director Saxon finds some beautiful pictures to show this collision in situations. But again, it remains pictures and ideas, a context awaiting the text. Despite all the visual vitality, we only have a little actual feeling of this land, or people who live there. Yes, Ochi legend They look surprisingly real, impressive, but inhabited by characters who do not seek a story.
