![]() In his review, Tim Maughan argues that the film is “animation for animation’s sake,” and his point is understandable on a conceptual level, but his words nevertheless leave me cold.Īt its core, the original “Star Wars” trilogy is nothing more than a hero’s monomythic journey. Like the odometer that has gone beyond its limits, so has “Redline.” What I see before me appears to be a hero’s journey to win glory and his love, but it is gone before I can form any emotional attachment to the characters onscreen. The simple story that I’ve outlined above has lost all form and structure it is like a ghost of what we expect to see. Unfortunately, there is too much detail being hurried through almost every single scene despite the film’s generous 142 minute running length. With a start and finish, a beginning and end, a race is much like a journey. There’s a simple story here in fact, the premise couldn’t be any simpler: a young man sets out on a journey to win glory and the love of his life in a no holds barred competition known simply as Redline. ![]() that one loses sight of how the film truly makes him or her feel: cold and detached. There’s always the temptation to temper one’s own words - oh, the animation is top-notch, the action is simply “exhilarating,” the movie oozes sublime energy, etc. Writing about a movie like “Redline” is always tricky. Likewise, “Redline” and its characters move through an eclectic world at such an electric pace that I can hardly connect with the film on any subjective level beyond “whoa.” The odometer is incapable of measuring anything I can comprehend. It has markings, numbers, a needle - I mean, it sure does look like an odometer, but can anyone rely on it to measure anything? The odometer retains a ghost of its original symbolic meaning, but its practical meaning has long disappeared. As both characters careen toward the finish line, the world around them blends into incomprehensible blotches of colors - brown and blue - and the needles on their odometers transcend the devices’ own limits.įrom the looks of it, the odometer above appears nonsensical anyway. Undeterred, JP kicks his own vehicle into the next gear and he soon catches up to his opponent. ![]() Senoshee punches a button and her vehicle rockets off into the distance, leaving behind only a wall of broken water. Our hero JP is in a dead heat with Senoshee, a rival racer. A moment early in “Redline” encapsulates my misgivings with the film as a whole. ![]()
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