In some form of facility, humans are training to be animals by dressing up as them and acting out. As the camera pans across the facility, we understand more.
Although it involves climate change, the survival of species and other such grand sci-fi ideas, Floreana is not as deep or weighty as it may seem. It has quite a nice reflective tone to it, but ultimately it is more beauty than substance. I'm sort of okay with that here though, because the beauty is in the concept as well as the animation. The closing of the film has a neatness to it that I found quite pleasing and a little affecting, even if thinking about it for a second meant it crumbled by how little we knew. The animation flows wonderfully, scrolling sideways across rooms and information, looking good as it does it.
I think it in the end it is more about the aesthetics and concept than it is about substance, but it works very well on those terms.
Although it involves climate change, the survival of species and other such grand sci-fi ideas, Floreana is not as deep or weighty as it may seem. It has quite a nice reflective tone to it, but ultimately it is more beauty than substance. I'm sort of okay with that here though, because the beauty is in the concept as well as the animation. The closing of the film has a neatness to it that I found quite pleasing and a little affecting, even if thinking about it for a second meant it crumbled by how little we knew. The animation flows wonderfully, scrolling sideways across rooms and information, looking good as it does it.
I think it in the end it is more about the aesthetics and concept than it is about substance, but it works very well on those terms.