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Tekkonkinkreet - Michael Arias [2006]

Ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about a little gem. A plastic, not well defined, not free of defects or inaccuracies ... but full of desire to tell and to be seen, with such expressive power that makes one forget the any possible shortcomings or deficiencies. E ' Tekkonkinkreet - alone against all. Do not worry dell'impronunciabile title (translated would reinforced concrete), because it contains within it what is flowing gold.

This spectacular animated film trilogy was adapted from the award-winning manga by Taiyo Matsumoto, which unfortunately I have only the first volume. In fact, the last two numbers are never released in the comics that I usually hang out, so I could not read the work starting in a complete (though in the DVD I found a flyer that advertised the release of all volumes. .. mah ...). So I do not want, but I am compelled to comment all as a product designed exclusively for the big screen, without references or links to the work of the base.

The story speaks of Nero (original Kuro) and White (Shiro), two orphans living on the streets of Treasure Town, known by the name of Cats and for being the author of several incidents of juvenile delinquency. The first is apparently a guy hard and strong, while the second is his younger brother was eleven years old, but with the mental age of a child of three. Everything changes when a group of yakuza in order to increase the profits of their illegal activities, thanks to the advice of a mysterious man named Mr. and slimy snake decided to open an amusement park in downtown Treasury. But to do so must first remove the two cats, and the consequences will be catastrophic ...

It 's a movie that contains within itself many issues, but what each frame rails is the theme of lost innocence, and how it separates the look of a child (the wild life and anarchic City Treasury) to that of an adult cold and calculating (the organization of the yakuza). The stretch of the characters, deliberately childlike and disproportionate, tends to recall the concept.

And it does so using even a crude and violent representation of events, increasing the visual contrast that stands by the viewer these items. Possimao say that it truly is the mistress of violence (both physical and psychological), and only sincere primordial instinct of mankind, can not escape the reminder that not even the most innocent child.

But the real solution is a balance between everything mentioned so far. And it is this nice and simple control that allows the two protagonists find themselves in a final cathartic and liberating, finally leaving that world of absolute and prevented the current of life flowing into the sea real existence. And that's why the film ends on a beach.

The rookie Michael Arias (esoriente as a director, but already author of the wonders of digital The Prince of Egypt and producer of animated films in the Animatrix episodes ), an American of Japanese origin but by adoption, moves his characters with the awkwardness of a boy that goes to the first time on a bike, perhaps crafting a final product much more than him, but managing every single bee in touch with each other and security. Because everything can be said about this film, but that is not true.

Another winning element is finest in animation, which mixes manera magistral in traditional animation and computer graphics, giving sequences and dizzying camera movements that make it more likely a live-action film (damn, the initial pursuit MDP seemed davero a steadicam!). Never has a special effect totally end in itself, but all of the proper end of history and of the whole.
also good music for the British duo Plaid, and this song in the credits Aru machi no Gunji j-rock group composed of Asian Kung-fu Generation.

An anime recommended to all those who will leave behind prejudices and pretextual, leaving dip in the chaotic and violent world of quetsi two cats.