Ryan this so-called documentary is far from anything that is a documentary. The reason is the way they were showing this film was overall just weird and I felt that people would lose the whole basis of what the documentary is about. The animation mixed with what they were feeling and how the tentacles came out of their faces just creepy. A documentary is to inform people on certain subjects through informative commentary and images of that convey great meaning to the subject, not images that show off the feelings of the individual in a strange way.
This documentary was also poor in conveying information about the subject which about this animators work and how he fell into drugs and lost his job. Ryan is also an inspiring animator who find himself in the same situation but not falling into drugs. Though what really creep me out was that the dudes did not have a full body they were missing much of their skin and had colorful tentacles coming out their bodies overall just an awful way to deliver information about an event.
Who says documentaries can't show the feelings of an individual? May I be so bold as to say you missed the point? This documentary was not meant to explain how Ryan, the interviewee, made his films or built his career. It wasn't a bucket of facts to be sorted and represented in an engaging way. The documentary was recording the man. It was recording his conflicts, his desires, his wants, his needs and his declining state of health and sanity. While these would show if the video was a "real" recording of Ryan and we saw him actually throw a fit or him actually sit on a street, we would miss how he saw things. We would not understand how much of him had gone missing, or what was going though his head. He was tied up. Also, we would miss the power of him looking at his reflection and seeing his entire self. The contrast added so much power to the documentary. It was meant to be creepy, and it was the event.
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