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The Other Side of Reason. The Other Side of Fate. The Other Side of Truth.
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
MirrorMask
2005 Directed by Dave McKean
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La máscara de cristal
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Film #20 of "Scavenger Hunt #3" Challenge!
Task #14 : A film about/featuring a circus!
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___________________________________________________________________The exquisite wickedly dark visuals were so breathtakingly beautiful I forgave the extremely weak story and dialogue! I also loved it for best use of the Carpenter's tune "Close To You" in a motion picture film ever!
Director Dave McKean is an artistic genius! He's also a nincompoop for allowing an inferior script to sabotage this visionary masterpiece!
The perfect fantasy world to let yourselves get lost in!
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I can't tell you how many times I watched this when the dvd was released in 2006. It's kind of silly to say, but at the time I really identified with the character. I was at a weird age - a little older than her but probably at the same maturity level. I had a strained relationship with my Mom and just wanted to draw all day. Also, I was dropping acid fairly regularly, so you could say I experienced 'Mirrormask' under the best possible circumstances.
Once the initial shock of the slightly over-filtered cgi haze wears off, you can allow yourself to become immersed in the dream world. The music and dialog take you to another place. I always…
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Neil Gaiman Films Entry #1
A bizarrely charming "Wonderful Wizard of Oz"/"Alice in Wonderland" style film written by Neil Gaiman. The story follows a young girl transported to dreamlike world where she's coveted by an oppressive mother figure (Gaiman explored similar themes in his book "Coraline" which was adapted into a fantastic film). The film's visuals by director Dave McKeanare switch from dreamlike to nightmarish on the fly. Stephanie Leonidas carries the film convincingly as a teenage Helena despite being in her 20s. A tantalizing escape down the rabbithole film for kids and adults alike.
A critic's thoughts:
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a rating of A-, saying that the film is a "dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman (The Sandman)" and that it "has something to astonish everyone."
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There are strange films that have a sense of unique beauty to them.
There are strange films with a sense of brilliance to them.
There are strange films that try to have some hidden brilliant but end up being stupid.
Then, there's Mirrormask...a little bit of all of the above.This is about a little girl named Helena who is apart of a family circus act. She'd rather live a normal life and after sharing some harsh words with her mother, her mother ends up in the hospital. Filled with guilt, Helena can do nothing but escape into the confides of her very bizarre dream...or is it a dream?
Mirrormask is like a more bizarre version of Wizard of Oz.…
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Terry Gilliam could never
The real world bits looked like a horrendous student film but i embrace it all in exchange for gorilla pigeon men
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Neil Gaiman is one of the most creative writers out there. I have read all his books, comics and watched everything based on his work. This film is, by far, my favourite Gaiman based work. This mainly has to do with the matching of Gaiman's incredible fantasy to the visual art of McKean.
Now, there is a lot of evidence here that this is a first time effort at a full-length feature film. The pacing is off and it has structural problems, but it doesn't matter one tiny bit. It is visually stunning, original and in certain scenes completely unique.
This is Gaiman's Alice in wonderland and he, as always, delivers a truly original story with memorable characters.
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I’ve never been so horrified by a children’s film. It’s ugly and incoherent and weird and IT JSUY DOESNT MAKE SENSE OMG THESE PEOPLE WERE TRIPPING ON ACID WHILST WRITING THIS I SWEAR.
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You can tell this was originally intended to be a direct-to-video, with all its odd (not terrible, but odd) CGI moments and a relatively simple parallel world fantasy plot. I'd like to think of it as Neil Gaiman's own spin on the tropes of that particular fantasy plot structure, but Coraline already exists (and was published earlier than the production of this film). Even as its own thing, I found the plot itself quite run-of-the-mill — it's the icing all over it that gives MirrorMask the edge.
The mirror world feels as if a concept artist was let loose to do whatever they wanted, because that's exactly what happened with Dave McKean. You can see fascinating visuals all over the…
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uncanny valley 2000s pre-rendered cutscene digital hellscape, major silent hill/psychonauts vibes, it's like someone took a handful of my exact specific aesthetic interests and put them all in one film. neil gaiman doing the writing certainly helps tie this beautiful package all together
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Sometimes a film holds up better than you remember-the story is simple enough, but that's not a problem, given that the film focuses so much on the texture of dreams, the feeling of getting stuck in them, and the weird ways they bounce off of real life (Such as it is, I mean, have you looked around at 'Real Life', lately?)