Edge
This was a descend for sure. Into waste. Of time.
Yeah, the pun does not work that well, but the same can be said about this movie. Honestly, average slice-of-life 4-coma anime adaptation has more plot than this one. It's not like it's not there at all, but so much that it does not lead anywhere. They will edge you, while you are at the edge of your seat, but then you will get absolutely nothing.
There are certainly themes here. Fear of parenthood, childhood trauma, loss, suicidal ideations, physical trauma, alien abduction, loss of self, danger of guns... Lots of themes, really. Each one of them is important, and the movie does have a good basis for all of them, interconnecting them quite nicely. Presentation is really good, actors, cinematography, that "hint" at a "bigger picture" at the end, but...
All of it is for naught, because it does not lead anywhere. There is no climax. There is no "moral of the story". There is no final destination. I do not mind ambiguity in the ending of a story, but here it felt like we were following a path, events were escalating (kind of), and one would expect some culmination, something mind-bending or maybe something completely prosaic, but we got nothing. Everything, all that tension and self-searching was for naught, and Sean just integrated back into his normal life, as if nothing happened. As if he did not suffer at all, or as if that suffering was normal.
Yeah, ok, some aspects of his suffering may, indeed, be considered "normal" under circumstances, but since the story was showing a "normal" man, this sort of emotionless at the end felt unnatural. So, I would not recommend wasting your time on this, unless you just want to see good actor play.
Yeah, the pun does not work that well, but the same can be said about this movie. Honestly, average slice-of-life 4-coma anime adaptation has more plot than this one. It's not like it's not there at all, but so much that it does not lead anywhere. They will edge you, while you are at the edge of your seat, but then you will get absolutely nothing.
There are certainly themes here. Fear of parenthood, childhood trauma, loss, suicidal ideations, physical trauma, alien abduction, loss of self, danger of guns... Lots of themes, really. Each one of them is important, and the movie does have a good basis for all of them, interconnecting them quite nicely. Presentation is really good, actors, cinematography, that "hint" at a "bigger picture" at the end, but...
All of it is for naught, because it does not lead anywhere. There is no climax. There is no "moral of the story". There is no final destination. I do not mind ambiguity in the ending of a story, but here it felt like we were following a path, events were escalating (kind of), and one would expect some culmination, something mind-bending or maybe something completely prosaic, but we got nothing. Everything, all that tension and self-searching was for naught, and Sean just integrated back into his normal life, as if nothing happened. As if he did not suffer at all, or as if that suffering was normal.
Yeah, ok, some aspects of his suffering may, indeed, be considered "normal" under circumstances, but since the story was showing a "normal" man, this sort of emotionless at the end felt unnatural. So, I would not recommend wasting your time on this, unless you just want to see good actor play.
- simbiat
- Aug 28, 2025