I decided to watch 'Anomalisa' as it sounded interesting and it's not often you get an animated film made exclusively for adults. It's fair to say that this is a very weird film and, although it had me hooked from start to finish, I was left with mixed feelings overall.
The animation is really fascinating - the attention to detail and the way the characters move and act is somehow both realistic and robot-like, which I'm sure was done deliberately. It's also very creepy, especially when all the characters start acting and sounding identical. I liked the sheer strangeness of it all.
The problem is that, for all the film's uniqueness and originality, there isn't much of a plot. It's about a sad and lonely middle-aged man who experiences an 'anomaly' when he meets a girl - it would have perhaps made a decent short, but there's just not enough going on to justify a full length film.
The animation is really fascinating - the attention to detail and the way the characters move and act is somehow both realistic and robot-like, which I'm sure was done deliberately. It's also very creepy, especially when all the characters start acting and sounding identical. I liked the sheer strangeness of it all.
The problem is that, for all the film's uniqueness and originality, there isn't much of a plot. It's about a sad and lonely middle-aged man who experiences an 'anomaly' when he meets a girl - it would have perhaps made a decent short, but there's just not enough going on to justify a full length film.