Komaneko is an 1hour animation, about a cat named Komaneko who wants to made a short film. She starts everyting from scratch, right from making her own doll, writing the storyboard, design the set to taking the pictures, she take pictures of her own doll frame by frame, which mades it into a short film.
How lovely it is! Komaneko is so cute. And yes, part of the story is touching too. It is sad to see Komaneko cried when one of her precious doll was stolen by a gorilla, which was in fact, a dog in disguise.
It drove me to tears in the end. I cried, even though this is not some melodrama or weepy soap drama, but it touches my heart. Sad to say, it is not easy to get the DVD here due to the very limited demand in Singapore. Why not release the DVD and the merchandise here?
The cute little kitten has sweeten up lonely Saturday morning.
The next day, went to watch 30 Days of Night, a horror film based on graphic novel of the same title. FYI, you got a pretty good director (David Slade of Hard Candy fame), a average actor (Josh Harnett) and some unknown actors and actresses and well known producer (Sam Raimi, the man behind Spiderman trilogy.) and what you get is a pretty bad show.
Perhaps i pinned my hopes high on Slade, since Hard Candy was highly recommended by critics.
Set in Burrow, a small town in Alaska, it is about the town is facing a heavy snowstorm, which the town will be in 30 days of darkness. A sheriff (Harnett) and his wife decided to give each other a break from their marriage for 30 days. The wife was trapped in Burrow when she missed her flight. Horro attacks the town when a group of zombies came into the town and eat up the people there. Survivors has to get themselves out of the town under the heavy snowstorm, where they could avoid being eaten up by the zombies. It ends up survivors being attacked by zombies when getting ration from supermart. The only way to survive is to hide themselves for 30 days, when zombies could not survive when the sun rises.
Many details were not explained in the film. More rather, it starts with dull dialogues, and tonnes of gore and violence. (Think the young girl devouring human head in supermart.) In someway, it reminds me of watching Planet Terror, but it has no way looked like Planet Terror. Rather, think Dawn of the Dead in Alaska instead of a shopping mall.
Hollywood desperately needs some fresh creative juice soaked in the scriptwriter's brain.