A Little Escape

Don't get too close; it's dark inside It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide

KimetsuNoYaiba

So I watch Demon Slayer infinity castle! I went in had no idea and it’s a R rated movie! Gotta say it’s a bit strange to walk in to R rated cartoon but the the girl usher (ticket taker) was in cosplay as the little sister with the bamboo thing, made me felt instantly comfortable.

The movie is long and the actions are great. But most standout about it is the story telling

The use of a ton inner dialogues: Every twists and moves, the characters have flashbacks and analyze the actions!

The use of backstories: A lot of them..they are quite touching too. It brings humanity to the characters, their struggles and challenges and even fallen into the evilpath.

With the above two made the story telling very compact. A ton of information is coveyed to the audience in short jammed packed actions. For example in the middle of falling off a building or chopping of a demon’s head. The movie, instead of going straight line, felt like dense tree branches or multidimensional structures. I think the anime medium uses of these self dialogues seems to be common, it is a no no in other movie types. But it’s a short cut, like anime ioconography, very quickly you get the character’s emotions state. I guess in written medium (i.e. novels) they are just adjectives or adverbs. So, mixed medium of written words (inner dialogues), ioconography and extended backstories, condensed a lot stories and story arcs.

I particularly like it shows people in the olden days struggle to live or people live in labor class or farmer class that resonate with the working class. Instead of showing aristocrats or princesses, the characters all went through struggles and tragedies in lives. The backstories are gritty.

I liked it. Unfortunately the movie finished but the story wasn’t finished.

After getting out of the movie theater:

I went home starting to watch the anime from the first episode. Oh.. man… that first episode was so touching and soul crushing. Omg 😱😱😱😭😭😭