You rarely see a portrayal the banal, devastating reality of the male condition of loneliness, so props for that.
I enjoyed the realistic animation, but kept wondering why it was animated at all if it was going to be 100% realism.
Oh, and the Men’s Health magazine opened the wrong way.

Superb animation with mixed media! My read of this fever dream is that it’s an exploration into what happens to the art once the artist is gone.
But why do you always have to show your flippity flop??

Definitely felt like a kid again. I love when filmmakers ground their work in reality but take one aspect tweak it. It really gives the audience something to focus on to discover the themes.

Oozing with artistic expression, I really felt their pain and frustration and trauma. Haunted by a past that’s ruining everything. Trying to salvage a marriage but constantly being held back by the memories of unimaginable tragedy. All of this was expressed with gorgeous animation and a deeply penetrating portrayal of each emotion… this one cut deep for me.

Tender and playful, full of whimsy. I could really feel the vibe of “trying to understand the world as a child dealing with loneliness and exploring strong hallucinogenics”

They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

The first half or so felt forced, the second half was fun and got me excited. Favorite scene was the mountain giants, which is funny because the CGI for the rest was generally my least favorite element.
More than anything, at least I remembered bits of a book that I haven’t read for 20 years.

Sean Baker really knows how to tell a story. I have the pleasure and curse of seeing Florida Project and Anora before this, so I found myself constantly comparing young-Sean to now-Sean. That said, I loved the interweaving of stories and lives. He always leaves me feeling like I really got to know a person instead of just having watched a movie. I think some of the emotional moments could have lingered a smidge longer to really let our actors show instead of the camera tell.

Beautiful and devastating and funny. Funny that I picked this movie now, as I've recently been having an existential crisis. "Why do you draw?" easily translates to "Why do you create?" and then to "Why do you do anything? What's the point of any of it?"

Great story, great acting… except I didn’t much care for Connie Nielsen’s performance. Also mostly great editing except for what seemed like awkward slow-mo every now and then?
Regardless, I was definitely invested in the characters and didn’t remember much of anything after the 20+ years since the last time I saw this.