The Rabbitte Perspective

An Anime For The Masses? If there's one thing to note in relation to the films that are shown today and the many different film-making practises that are utilised, it's how much directors 'pay homage' to other works that have come to print their mark on this lauded artistic medium. As much as film-makers of this generation are trying to be distinctive and different from the auteurs that have come and gone, it's easy to notice just how much some of the most iconic moments, narratives and scenes in cinema history have been inspired by the films that have come before them. A noticeable example of this happening, is by looking through Darren Aronofsky's pieces of Requiem For a Dream and Black Swan  and how much both of these films instrument scenes and contextual themes from Satoshi Kon's Japanese Animation of Perfect Blue . This however, isn't the only anime film in recent memory which has had its thematic and formal constructs been extracted towar...

A Supernatural Thriller That Leaves You Wanting More As much as the likes of Attack On Titan , Sword Art Online and One Punch Man  have maintained the arguable notion that Japanese animation still has a viability towards Western audiences due to their respective popularity, it's still disconcerting to come across a 'lesser-known' anime in this present day that would instantaneously make you emotionally invested. Although many anime series can implement emotional constructs that can make you feel excited and then sad in quick succession, they can also ultimately falter due to the lack of story-telling and how the corresponding conclusion fails to wrap up narrative elements that weren't fleshed out to begin with. The ending, whether it's an anime show or not, is always paramount since it can either make you feel as though you want to watch the series immediately, or it can leave you feeling disappointed; making you contemplate about the underwhelming outcome t...

A Fitting End To One Of Contemporary Cinemas Fictional Icons Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, Christian Bale, J.K. Simmons, Heath Ledger and of course, Robert Downey Jr. What do all of these actors have in common with each other? They're all actors, in their respective roles, that have portrayed superhero related characters to an authentic and believable degree that it's hard to imagine any other established performer to come in and equally be as convincing. As arguable as it is to state how superhero films of this modern-era are heavily saturating the cinematic market, one thing that remains constant and exciting to see on-screen, are the portrayals of characters that are thoroughly committed and fleshed-out to the best abilities of the said actors and the film-makers that strive to make an adaptation that all audiences can engage with. Much of this is certainly applicable to Hugh Jackman's depiction of Wolverine; a role that he's consistently and convincingly perf...

Spectacle...But No Substance?  As much as one cinema-goer can list off a serial number of action films that have defined what the said genre has become and how it's evolved certain stories and films over-time to this present day, one of the more interesting outlooks to gaze at in regards to this interchanging features are the 'Heroic Bloodshed' films of 1980's Hong Kong cinema. Whereas Hollywood cinema, in the past twenty years, have relied upon set-pieces featuring big explosions, car chases and CGI special effects, the Hong Kong strain of 1980's action films, most notably seen within John Woo's film of The Killer  and Ringo Lam's City on Fire , revolve around not only stylised sequences involving gun-play ('gun fu') and physical acrobatics, but also the implementation of dramatic themes such as honour, redemption and violence that are all seen within the frame of the lens. These features that have applied lots of blood and action to their pr...