While I feel like there is some much needed context as to who Boogie is as a character and the world he inhabits in under to “get” what the film is doing, I doubt that prior knowledge would help many people get over all the crass misogyny and racism and homophobia baked into the film. Boogie himself is a product of war, having served in several of them, most notably Vietnam. This has shaped him in weird ways, exacerbating the incredibly old-fashioned ideas he already had about gender roles but also giving him a penchant for violence that he seeks out constantly. At the very least with each time Boogie says something misogynistic it starts to feel more and more cartoony. The man is rude and crude and not meant to be appealing. He is sometimes called out, but not enough to warrant a difference in his demeanor until he changes near the end and decides that he loves Marsha, the female lead of the film, but purely only because she listens to what he says and follows what he says.
He’s this big, bad killer in a ransack world and yet he still comes across as pathetic and worthy of disgust. One scene has him shoot a puppy. No reason. He just does it when it walks up to him. He is so shit off emotionally.
The animation itself is a mixed-media approach. Characters are clearly animated with a mix of hand-drawn and puppet animation positioned in a 3D program. It’s not a wholly appealing art style at first glance, but the film makes the style its own and stands by it well enough that it does have moments where it shines, such as the action scenes. Honestly, it’s a style of animation that I wouldn’t mind seeing more of. A different kind of story that weaves the aesthetic into the story itself would probably fare better overall
While I feel like there is some much needed context as to who Boogie is as a character and the world he inhabits in under to “get” what the film is doing, I doubt that prior knowledge would help many people get over all the crass misogyny and racism and homophobia baked into the film. Boogie himself is a product of war, having served in several of them, most notably Vietnam. This has shaped him in weird ways, exacerbating the incredibly old-fashioned ideas he already had about gender roles but also giving him a penchant for violence that he seeks out constantly. At the very least with each time Boogie says something misogynistic it starts to feel more and more cartoony. The man is rude and crude and not meant to be appealing. He is sometimes called out, but not enough to warrant a difference in his demeanor until he changes near the end and decides that he loves Marsha, the female lead of the film, but purely only because she listens to what he says and follows what he says.
He’s this big, bad killer in a ransack world and yet he still comes across as pathetic and worthy of disgust. One scene has him shoot a puppy. No reason. He just does it when it walks up to him. He is so shit off emotionally.
The animation itself is a mixed-media approach. Characters are clearly animated with a mix of hand-drawn and puppet animation positioned in a 3D program. It’s not a wholly appealing art style at first glance, but the film makes the style its own and stands by it well enough that it does have moments where it shines, such as the action scenes. Honestly, it’s a style of animation that I wouldn’t mind seeing more of. A different kind of story that weaves the aesthetic into the story itself would probably fare better overall
