I was enchanted by the very first air battle scene and then Kenji Kawai's peaceful and stunning score. It was something. And the music somehow made the film deeper maybe than it was.
The Sky Crawlers is a mixture of stories about war, love and self searching and living forever. The story is set somewhere in future where wars are not waged between countries but big enterprises. And the pilots are actually children who never grow up. And it's actually pretty intriguing. Almost like forced Peter Pans fighting each other (maybe not exactly the right comparison). Only difference between Peter Pan and kildren were that Peter didn't want to grow old the kildren didn't have to grow old because they supposed to die in the battle anyway. That kind of makes The Sky Crawlers a twisted tale of Peter Pan. There are many allegories in this film that I don't care about. It was visually stunning film.
The Sky Crawlers is somehow one of the most beautiful war movies (if you can call it a war movie) I have ever seen.
7,5 out of 10
The Sky Crawlers is a mixture of stories about war, love and self searching and living forever. The story is set somewhere in future where wars are not waged between countries but big enterprises. And the pilots are actually children who never grow up. And it's actually pretty intriguing. Almost like forced Peter Pans fighting each other (maybe not exactly the right comparison). Only difference between Peter Pan and kildren were that Peter didn't want to grow old the kildren didn't have to grow old because they supposed to die in the battle anyway. That kind of makes The Sky Crawlers a twisted tale of Peter Pan. There are many allegories in this film that I don't care about. It was visually stunning film.
The Sky Crawlers is somehow one of the most beautiful war movies (if you can call it a war movie) I have ever seen.
7,5 out of 10