From Inside

Last year I saw Machine Girl at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (2008), now it's called Imagine (2009), God knows why. I thought they didn't get any worse than that movie, but I was wrong, dead wrong. From Inside is terrible, really awful. What's the point of this story? Everyone dies, the animation is slow and has a very old school feel to it. Anyone who has seen the 80's Lord of the Rings animation knows what I am talking about. But the point is this, this movie has no point and during its 70 minutes the audience is thinking something like this: "what is this? it must be a metaphor? but for what?".

Peolple left the screening room disappointed, and so did I. This movie is not recommended at all, not even if you could see it for free.

The world has ended due to nuclear apocalypse.Cee is a pregnant woman who survived.She and other survivors are on a train riding among hellish landscapes of blood and debris.The girl has a very vivid nightmares.The world became hell and Cee questions herself if she really wants to bring a child into this world of agony and destruction.Very depressing and bleak animated horror with grotesque characters and almost never ending seas of blood.Some elements of "From Inside" are obviously digital like the train,other are hand draw.The film is pretty short as it lasts only 70 minutes.It's hard to enjoy "From Inside",but this animated feature will surely leave a lasting impression on any curious viewer.7 trains to nowhere out of 10.

This film is absolutely rubbish. Storyline is very feeble, if you can call it a storyline. Some reviews said it is very depressing. I would say there isn't one. Soundtrack is good though!

I watched this movie at Fantaspoa 2010, and I was very impressed by it. It really took me to another reality, or rather, unreality; a bad dream. The great graphical quality of it, together with a matching soundtrack, and a well performed narrative, telling such original and uncommon story, accomplished what many top-budget Hollywood horror movies failed to. It made me feel uncomfortable, even though I shouldn't be able see myself into any of the characters, as it tells us about an apocalyptic world. This animation's characteristics, though, made it easy to feel like in a nightmare. A nightmare that could be mine. A nightmare that, for 70 minutes, was mine.

Technically speaking, the soundtrack is not great. It's suitable. The graphics are great. Most of the time, it doesn't seem like hard things to make, like it was a challenge. But each element was well orchestrated, making each frame a painting, a portrait of pain, despair. The narrative of the main character was well elaborated, completing the portrait with the colors of agony, lack of hope, compromise to emptiness. The pace of the movie is slow. It gives you the time to assimilate each and every bad moment the character is going through. It helps you enter the torpid, dormant feelings of the train's passengers, as life passes by outside. The engineers of the train made the important decisions, practically nobody else cared. They let themselves be taken.

The story is coherent overall, as a dream can be. Many elements go unexplained, but you should consider that as not relevant. It stands clear that the important thing is Cee's point of view of the things that happen around her. The other characters' behaviours aren't unrealistic. Greed, altruism, envy, pride. Nothing is exaggerated or stereotyped.

I won't recommend it for most people, as it is strong. It is, after all, also like a nightmare in these points: you don't want it. You don't like it. You wish you never had it. It makes you feel bad. But it ends, and then you're glad that you can be awake in your real world, in your real life. Back to normality.

So yes, I liked it a lot, and there are a few people I would recommend it to: the few people who are aware that nightmares are a part of ourselves. A part that helps to keep us sane. The same part that helps us understand the difference between reality and illusion. Good things and bad things. Ultimately, it helps us understand the balance of life.

First of all this movie is something very special and It is not for everybody.If you are searching for action,horror or something with a complete story that makes complete sense you will be disappointed. This movie is a perfect example of an art piece. It is an interesting and emotional,slow paced dark story that is very open for personal interpretation.There are a lots of loose ends in the story but here lies the beauty of it.Not everything has to be explained.Like in real life not everything is known to us.We don't really know where we are,why are we here and where we are going.Just like this woman doesn't know the destination of the train.And the train represents the life itself.It is a big,long journey,sometimes very dark and in the end all that matters is love.In this case love towards her son and husband. Don't get me wrong,this is not a classic love story.This is something very deep and real for all of us.Life can be harsh and unforgiving and there are some decisions we do not want to make,but we have to. If you are one of those people that search for deeper meanings in movies and art you will be very pleased.

If I have to name only one movie that portraits a real nightmare it would be this one.A lot of the images can be disturbing,but at the same time they are not so disgusting.The viewer really feels like in a dream,a nightmare.Anything is possible and acceptable.In dreams we accept the weirdest things as completely normal.Even in life we do the same.We don't seek explanations,we just accept them as the facts of life(like death) and we continue our journey searching for something.

I liked the film's style very much.The story is told in animations and images.Like a comic book coming alive.Really special and original.Everything was coordinated perfectly:the music,sounds,animations etc. This movie is so simple and yet so complex that I am sure the books could be written about it.

I also liked how the whole story is told by only one person. It is subjective and represents a story of a personal journey through the dark waters of life.It shows that the love is the only thing we can grab on to,the only thing that gives us purpose in spite of life being a nightmare sometimes.

I think now you can make a decision if you want to watch this film or not.For some it will be a complete waste of time and for some it will be a true piece of art.