Tuesday, August 25, 2009

In the Realms of the Unreal Review


I watched this film some time ago when I was a part of Society of Illustrators and they hosted big indie film nights. What always strikes me is the amount of work he did over a lifetime and the crap he went through growing up that made him dream up of these characters. The effects most definitely give life to his characters (the Vivian girls) and their adventures through war. Some of the imagery sort of gets to you especially the girls since they are sort of guys also. I don't know.....but what I do know is that the visuals being enhanced like they were just made everything seem like a storybook come to life. Like a refined kandinsky. Such a deep touching tale about Henry Darger and the world that occupied his apartment space/mind. Sadly the world never got to meet the man before he died.

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