Aftermath

If you haven't watched anything by animation director Tekken, you're missing out on some very interesting work, and watching one of his pieces will take only about as much time as reading this review. He's known for making distinct looking shorts set to music that convey strong emotion, and Aftermath is no exception.

In five minutes, Tekken tells the story of a solider missing home and dealing with the complex political climate of the unnamed war he's in. He interacts with locals, deals with feeling like simply a number in the army, and dreams about his family back home. The short hits all the beats of ... a war movie and while it doesn't do anything particularly new with it, it does these things masterfully.

There's a great "war isn't all black and white" pun here somewhere...

This music video is not bad. It's pretty unique with the black and white style. For the gist of this short, it features people during a war, and then at the end, they all join together. The story is good for its short length, as I pretty much just explained the story, I won't bother explaining it again. The art isn't bad, black and white cartoony style. The song isn't bad either, not my cup of tea, but not bad. Very little character development in this short, though. It's one of the things this lacks the most. I actually did enjoy it a bit, overall, ... it is not a bad music video.

*Disclaimer*
Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal

Art: 5/10 Minimal. More like doodles some student could draw in class while they were bored. Seki from My Neighbor Seki could totally have done this.

Animation: 5/10 Choppy. Didn't fit into the storytelling like Follow Me did.

Plot: 5/10 Not really much of a plot. More of an inspirational piece. Didn't inspire me personally though.
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Development: 5/10 Standard inspirational piece development. Sad transitioning to happy ending with a short glimpse of it just being a never-ending cycle at the end. Unmoving.

Music: 6/10 Didn't like this song from MUSE as much as I did from Follow Me.

Overall: 5/10. It was okay I guess. One thing to notice is that at the very end of the video you see a small glimpse of tanks still firing despite the happy ending just seconds before.