AlanDSouza1

I think I prefer Tezuka's shorts when they don't verbalize their thoughts and use music and visuals to tell the story he wishes to narrate. For when the narrator does open his mouth to elucidate on the temporal unreliability of memory and the inconsistencies of the human mind storage system, the exploration is pretty surface level and tinged with an objectified view of women that would be widely offensive today. Memory is clever in short bursts - mostly when it uses the animation to play with double entendres and misidentify objects with the narration to achieve a comical effect - but in terms of substance, theshort is quite weak and perhaps even vacuous. I got to add that I love the sound design in these shorts. I love how the Hyoshigi are used to create the distinctively percussive sound that substitutes for tempo and rhythmic pacing of the animation - which relies primarily on contrasting still images. It gives these shorts a distinctive Japanese, yet experimental identity.