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[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

it's really fucking long but somehow hugely compressed at the same time, they do lots of hop-skip-jump over sequences that could be entire movies in themselves (characters getting from A to B etc.) and as a result the movie starts to just become a series of disjoint events happening instead of something that follows smoothly. However, it has unbelievable art design. It keeps throwing machine/weapon/setting designs at you that would be standalone iconic in any other film.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The disjointed sense of time is an important plot point though.

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very much so

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The alien language operates outside of linear time. As the MC is learning it she starts to develop an ability to perceive non-temporal existence. IIRC there’s a plot point that the daughter she mourns is not actually born yet at the time of the alien visitation etc.

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

we're talking about the creator, not arrival

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Damn, my bad. Got the threads mixed up