Interstella 5555

Reviewers: G Evans, Becka
Genre: Music Movie
Sit Down, Thrown on a vynal, and sample some Item 9, and then watch this one folks. I am giving it 5 Blazing Leaves up on this one. This animated instrumental masterpiece plays along with the tune of Daft Punks visionary album Discovery. Each track is a short episodic animation.

Becka’s Review of Number 7.
her shoes were cool.

The lead female chacacter is an interesting mix of damsel-in-distress and powerfully
brave female, Her admirer-lover male-lead character is the hero of the piece who saves
the band from the Mental and Artistic Slavery under the villian of the piece. Their love
for each other is the most interesting part of the movie. In most stories where any type
love is depicted, it is the focus of the story. In this movie though it is a extremely
powerful and emotional tragic sidenote of the piece.
It is also interesting because it is introduced in the beginning in then it is sprung quickly
back apon you 7 or 8 songs in.

text is bothersome to becka’s braiin

In this piece the, for lack of a better term, costumes on the characters are interesting to me. The color themes are quite specific at times, the white of the main female characters dress in the hero’s fantasys with her in them symbolize her innocence and a romantic marriage of the two souls.
The history section of the story tells of a prophecy to take over the universe through the talent of countless other musical geniuses of the alternative universe which is the backdrop for the entire story. The band depicted is the 555 musical geniiuss to be harnessed in the 5th section of the book. (5555 from the title) In the depiction of the journey we recognize aliens being turned in characters like Mozart, Mama Cass, Jimi Hendrix and a few others that I recognize by look but can’t name.

In case you were wondering this has been thus far written over 4 different days. The whole meaning behind the beautiful universe depicted as the 4 main characters home land is this theme of music can form a beautiful world and has such an important role in our everyday lives. The action of our earth in our current universe in banding together to get this musical gift back where it belongs is a nice image of our humanity. Interesting in how much our human nature values its sensory pleasures. The cult characters portrayed at the end of the movie are extremely tragic characters.

Becka just brought up a good point that the 11 song is quite different from the others. She thinks that it is a bit less fantastical than the others. think there is an interesting distinction between each song. Each song has a different message to portray. 12 is interesting because it is one of the only songs that has full verses of words. This is probably because everything is revealed to the characters in one song. It is a very informational/action packed episode.

12 also reveals the name of the band is AAPEGIUS. In a very quick split second that unless you are looking for it or have watched in 7 times like I have you would miss it.

Becka:
For me the first 10 videos have been airy and almost space feeling. This video for me is to grounded. And I think the lyrics are screwing me up. Im trying to find the meaning in the lyrics and not paying attention to the vid..

13 part 1

Gary: dark side of the moon Is interesting

The band is such an essential part of the world it is almost as if the characters are the life force of the planet that its people worship and embrace. We see in the end their lasting effect on their short visit to our planet representing how music is an influential force. The end is quite shocking and different. Unexpected but completely appropriate. Overall this movie is a seamless done musical study of the effect that music has in our entire universe and is something worth watching under the effect of Item 9 or just watching with friends or hell even a parent if you can get them through it. It is downloaded in its entirety to youtube.com but I would recommend watching it on DVD. Interstella 5555 is a musical journey that is compelling, rich, and meaniful story worth viewing.