The art style of this film is very fascinating. Ma Kuang-Pei uses a lot of paper texture and hand-drawing sketches to form a kind of old times feeling. Also, he joins a lot of details to every shots to make it looking like still paintings. By doing these things, the whole animation is just like a magical moving-picture book, presenting a thick feeling of loneliness and sadness.
Its motion graphics and camera works impress me so much, too. Because of the film shooting in only one take without cut, it brings audience a continuous visual effect by unceasingly pictures' moving and changing. This kind of animation skill will make people always amazing about how a scene or an object transform to another, and Ma Kuang-Pei does it very well.
The story is about a heart broken man’s life and imagination. It’s from Ma Kuang-Pei’s own experience of felling out of love. Then he uses these grieved emotions as materials and motive power to make this animation. During the process, he was trying to cast his hurt soul to the character in the film.
As a result, this film not only heals some part of his broken heart but also brings something wonderful to him. The Soliloquist won Annecy 2009 Graduation Films Special Distinction Award. That’s the first time Taiwan animation got award in this national festival.
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