More Than I Want to Remember

Lovely animation style, and the type of story I wouldn’t have come across without watching.

Lovely animation style, and the type of story I wouldn’t have come across without watching.

I feel like this style of animated documentaries that are just narration with some animation to go along never really work for me that well. They sometimes just feel like they’d work better as news stories on the radio or a podcast and never really stick out. There have been some standouts like Love, Dad or Granny’s Sexual Life, but the two that got shortlisted just didn’t do it for me.

I feel like this style of animated documentaries that are just narration with some animation to go along never really work for me that well. They sometimes just feel like they’d work better as news stories on the radio or a podcast and never really stick out. There have been some standouts like Love, Dad or Granny’s Sexual Life, but the two that got shortlisted just didn’t do it for me.

I’m not quite sure why all the reviews here on Letterboxd aren’t necessarily the best, and I find it pretty disrespectful that a lot of people on this app seem to be saying “the short is nothing new, and told in a way we haven’t seen before.” Like, this is a victim talking about an experience they had, told through an animated short. You can feel the pain in her voice as she recounts everything.

The animation here is without a doubt the standout, and helps to profoundly convey the horrors and outright gruesome brutality, tragedy, and side effects of war. It feels like you’re watching a memory you want to forget, and certainly lives up to its name.

I’m not quite sure why all the reviews here on Letterboxd aren’t necessarily the best, and I find it pretty disrespectful that a lot of people on this app seem to be saying “the short is nothing new, and told in a way we haven’t seen before.” Like, this is a victim talking about an experience they had, told through an animated short. You can feel the pain in her voice as she recounts everything.

The animation here is without a doubt the standout, and helps to profoundly convey the horrors and outright gruesome brutality, tragedy, and side effects of war. It feels like you’re watching a memory you want to forget, and certainly lives up to its name.