And due to seeing people getting extremely disappointed with the film for being too short, for having only 7-10 things happening in the first film, and in the entire 1 hour and 3 min. In term of the scenario, situation, or the interaction scene between characters. It's justifiable for those to criticize this movie for being mediocre, or slow pacing to the point where you would feel like the long wait for the kizumonogatari series was just a joke.
And let me start off by saying this. The pivotal components of this film itself is the cinematic techniques that was used in this movie. And we could clearly sees that this is just the exposition of the other parts of the kizumonogatari movie and that's why it's called part one. And the pacing of it is extremely slow as well because that's just how it's. And from what I've seen. This Kizumonogatari movie contains both parts of the plot-line. The exposition and in the progress of undergoing a rising action. And in term of the cinematic technique that was used within this movie. I would say, this is prolly one of the best cinematic technique that was used in an anime ever. One of the many things that it did, is to build up its atmospheric environment, atmosphere, setting, the sound tracks, and the symbolism involvement with the voices of other external correlated things (baby crying, sounds of someone stepping on a door etc.). That created a kind of cinematic moment which is considered to be called as, "noir". And other term during the flashcard thing that usually appear when you watch the monogatari was a film contextual words. That was "noir", and "rouge".
And this is what "noir" means, a movie about crime that uses dark shadows and lighting to show the complicated moral nature of the subject; also : this style of film. And it was delivering this kind of cinematic "noir" in the movie so well. And the atmospheric environment are that of a realistic images of an actual place. As well as the background setting that was used in the anime as well. And the application of various sources of imagery and animation in the film is pretty interesting as well. And based from what I've seen in this movie, the director seem to spend most of his time to create an extremely less repetitive frame of animation to each scene, or body movement to make it look even more realistic. This though, is at the opportunity cost of some of its character design texture, intricate lines on them, details, and the welly drawn entirety of the character in motion. This is probably because their budget for this movie isn't really as much as the fate zero franchise.
And certain character's interaction aren't really that logical. Maybe because of the time constraint of how long the movie gotta be with their current budget for the movie itself. Or the fact that this is how it's done in the light novel already. But the characters, especially Hanekawa. And here's my character analysis of Hanekawa in the movie. She was pretty clingy, show no certain kind of disturbance or faze when she show her panties to Araragi when they first met with one another, and actually talk. Then they started talking like they were very close despite them only being just a stranger, and they began to hang out with one another. This includes other form of other character's interaction within this kizumonogatari when we get to see Araragi interacting with them. And that shit makes no sense. But the character is pretty likable enough, they have a very good voice cast, etc. So I'm not going to say that the character in this show was illogical and bad. But they're likable enough (coz, moe) to be able to enjoy the story and the character interaction nontheless.
And the weight, or the dialogue itself were render short within this film. And my guess would probably be because this is just the exposition to the entirety of the Kizumonogatari story.
But the much more intellectual, maybe containing puns, philosophical arguments, uses of English words, English puns, hardcore symbolism with its visuals, or structuring their arguments of any of the related topics in a logical sequence (Premise, Premise, Premise... all of those premise will support the Conclusion. Which makes them valid and sound). We will probably see those in the upcoming film, or either of the part 2 and 3 of the kizumonogatari. And because the film itself was concentrating more on the cinematic techniques, and the uses of "noir". I still find the kizumonogatari as enjoyable, or even more enjoyable than their usual ways of compiling all of their dialogue within their visual novels, into a single episode of the their monogatari episodes. But in the overall sense, I'm cool with the lack of dialogue within Kizumonogatari for part 1 of its entirety, because of the cinematic technique that was used, and interesting animations within it.
But on the side note, each episode of Fate zero cost around $200,000-350,000+USD. And imagine how much does this movie even cost to make in the first place. Based from the quality of the art, the high level of animation, and the editing, OST, voice cast, staff payment etc. I would prolly think that this movie cost as much as 2 or 4 episode of Fate zero, approximately.
And I'm not gonna lie here, I was laughing my ass off on a scene that wasn't intended to be funny several times. Maybe because of the silliness of over exaggerated animation, the lack of gravity/physics, and the somewhat sloppy art-style during character's body movement, boobs physic/boob size xD, or when the characters is moving in general. But nonetheless, I fully enjoyed the movie because of the cinematic techniques that was used in the film in a very professional manner, the variation of jazzy, chill, suspense/intense, dramatic, majestic and friendly OST. And the light hearted, cute, comedy like art scene/parody of some other comedic work in the manga industries. I would probably recommend this to many of you to check it out. This review may be pretty long to read, but to get the overall idea of what the objectives of this Kizumonogatari is. I would recommend you to skim it over just to get the overall idea of what to expect while you are watching the film :)
