Aquatic Language

A short film that delivers an interesting reflective message through its premise. It has entertaining moments in terms of animation and others that are questionable.

"Mizu no Kotoba" is a 9-minute experience that promotes the importance of language, perspectives, contexts, ideals, reasoning, and analysis of both conversations and events. With the aim of providing the viewer with another window for personal growth.

However, its narrative argument may not be to everyone's liking, as understanding it requires full attention to the details and words of each present conversation. It is important to mention that they have different purposes, but they complement each other overall. On the other hand, the short film has good sound, providing that perspective of the environment and how it aids in understanding.

From my perspective, it could have been much better; it has tremendous potential, but it was largely wasted.

The 2D and 3D animation is simple, but it works. It should be noted that it could have had a better level of detail regarding the characters, as for brief moments the line work is quite mediocre. With everything related to the environments, very well.

The metaphor about the fish, excellent.

Aquatic Language starts well and is definitely intriguing for a while, taking place in some sort of bar or cafe and jumping quite suddenly between various conversations that are happening there.

It establishes a neat rhythm within almost no time at all, and I was wondering how long I'd actually be willing to go along with such a premise for. If done right, I think you could make something almost feature-length that just keeps jumping from one set of people to another every few minutes (maybe like Linklater's Slacker, or something by Jim Jarmusch like Night on Earth).

I don't think it ended as well as it started, and despite the brief runtime, Aquatic Language did still lose me. Oh well - it was good for a time, and still felt decent enough to be worth the watch.