Millenium Actress, when journey of one woman becomes one of the greatest adventure ever.

(I've been busy working on my new project I even forgot about updating my blog, now I'm still busy but I decided to update it with the first review article I've ever written, quite sometime already. Hope you like it)



OVERVIEW

Millenium Actress (Sennen Joyu) is a master piece from Satoshi Kon, the well-known director of Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfather and Paranoia Agent. The story takes you along with Tachibana Genya, a filmmaker, and Kyoji, his cameraman on their journey of finding the long disappeared actress, Fujiwara Chiyoko.
As they met the aged actress and Genya presented a piece of her long lost precious... the interview,or I might say, the adventure of a girl named "Chiyoko" began...
For the back story, I would say things that I mentioned above is more than enough for anybody who haven't seen this movie, no need for you to get more information or preview or anything since the funs and impressions of an adventure lie within the adventure itself, right?
For storytelling aspect I'd say this is one of the best already, since I've watched so many animes (as well as Mangas), this is the first time (and one of a few times) that I really see the whole character development, and the story itself is so simple you feel like Chiyoko's just an ordinary fine lady, so simple you'll be dragged into this heart-warming film before you ever known.
Thanks to the script written by Satoshi Kon & Sadayuki Murai which will bring you the magic of Millenium Actress, but the story itself is just only "a part" of the so called "Magic".

My IMPRESSION

Another part of "Magic" of Millenium Actress is the style and art-direction, if I say something more than this, I'm afraid it'd ruin your appetite for this movie, I can only say that from the moment Genya started Chiyoko's interview session, the magic of art started casting on the whole movie you're watching.
The style of this movie itself is enough to make Millenium Actress a worth collecting movie, everything from the acting of characters to colors to cutting to compositions is brilliant! Either watching it from a normal audience, art-direction or production perspectives, this is a very high quality work... and a piece of art.

The music scores by Hirasawa Susumu are nothing but another and the final part of "magic" which brings Millenium Actress to life. The music goes along very well with the pictures showing on screen, and the only words I can use to describe the music of this piece is. Imagining the magic you feel with your ears in the masterpiece "Cinema Paradiso"



CONCLUSION

I guess this is the end of my review, but it's not the end of Chiyoko. Usually I'd never give these much positive feedback to any pieces of movie, manga or anime like Millenium Actress before, of all those mangas (160+ titles) and animes (50+ titles) I've ever experienced (including the masterpieces like Monster, 20th Century Boys, Akira-the comic and Studio Ghibli's movies), it wouldn't be a over-exaggerated if I say Millenium Actress is my best impression among all Anime/Manga.

Other than the movie itself, the commentary part of Millenium Actress is another well-made piece I'd like to talk about, unlike other commentary feature of most movie, the one for this movie is told by imaginary Tachibana Genya as we're actually watching the documentary made by him. Normally I've never feel like giving comments for commentary parts since they're mostly information pieces, but this 40 minutes comentary is really worth watching.

Pomme-Genozide
www.GenozytE.com

 

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