So. We went to go see War Horse at New London Theatre.
In my opinion it was just AH so aesthetically beautiful.
It's like, stylistically-speaking, everything is based off a sketch. Everything is like an unfinished, structural image. Like the background is so minimalist, and they have this paper ripped strip just cutting through the dark space with actual landscape sketches and animations projected onto it. The puppets, especially the horses, were reminiscent of contour drawings.
I loved that when the war scenes began (which i was a little tentative about, considering the the large movements of the puppets being not as detailed as the small delicate movements), the movements of the humans became much more simplified, especially during the death scenes. Like when the captain guy got hit by a bullet and just became stiff and was lifted away into darkness. It could relate to the idea of the humans being puppets of war, you know?
Also, I loved the movenment of the girders from the ceiling. They came down vertically, looking fluid, like blood dripping. But as soon as they tilted, they shifted into solid, steel, cold objects. I loved that transformation of elements within the same object, shifted only by the slightest of movements.
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