Its so good

Rating: 10/10 (20 October 2008)

This film is good simply because it is one of the only film that lives up to the grandiose it carries itself with. What i mean by this is that there are so many big budget action Hollywood films that pretend that they are more influential and better made then they are. Which use "clever" camera shots stolen from a much better movie and in which the main character holds an intensely false serious look on his/her face throughout the entire movie. I can't name any specifically, but everyone knows the ones i mean, they churn out about five a year and they're fine, if you like that sort of thing. Me personally, in the cinema when the main cop American guy says something like "you're stepping way out of line there man" i can't help but scoff and think "calm down,for gods sake this is such an average three star movie, why you getting in such a huff?". I can't take them seriously, i prefer my cheeky little romps were not much happens but there is plenty of jokes and soul searching and tings. The ones that offers themselves to you with a shrug and say "here dude i made this movie, it's kind of cool" and don't try to suggest they will change your life or deeply move you.
This film though is different, very very different. As soon as it begins it slams it's fist down and says "Listen to me, i am not to be played int he background,I am not just a film, i am a piece of art" and unlike many films it frigging delivers. It manages to pull off lines such as "i want to see by eyes unclouded by hate" and talk about river gods and forest spirits and not at one point do you scoff. It is one of the only serious films i have honestly been caught up in, and not at one point joked about. It's one of those films that while it's playing you just think "how can i care about my washing or the state of the house or how much work i have to get done when this is happening?".
As a viewer i can only really comment on the effect, and don't really like breaking the film up into it's key elements and commenting on them but i will just say it is very beautiful, best animation i have ever seen.
There is no good or evil in this film, which is nice because too many films focus too much on good vs evil as if that is what life is like (star wars am talking to you)"Good vs evil" plot lines inspire single mindedness and that is bad 'cos it leads to racism and such. In this film instead of good and evil there is two opposing sides, both with different priorities and motives. It shows characters as having more than one dimension, no one is purely good nor evil (as in life). Instead of rooting for good the audience can root for the main brave character, The Prince. The real hero of this movie is San, the movies main girl and namesake who is just brilliant, it's always good to see a feisty girl in a film, I've had it up to here with drips. She exudes such passion, which lifts the film right up and her character blooms lovely against the conflict filled storyline.
The film carries serious issues and the epic storyline very well, and there is also a love story that is hinted at but never quite reaches it's peak ( which is how true love stories should be),which makes it more beautiful and heart wrenching which adds passion and lights up the film magnificently.
see this film, it deserves it