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Feb 21, 2017
Voices of a Distant Star has a certain charm in its swift execution of an introduction that puts the viewer in complete suspense with questions to answer questions, staging its several plot devices at the forefront without giving too much emphasis on who Nagamine Mikako or Terao Noboru really are or how the Tarsians have arrived as a threat.


From the start, the audience is invited to a serene atmosphere sounded by ambient lighting, slides of images that would inspire awe to the earlier generation of anime viewers. The character designs are not comparable in aesthetics to our today's ideals of how animated chins should be presented or the propriety in the locus of the eyes. It must be said that given the time frame and its contents, the short film can worry less about how the characters look and focus more on the feelings they should convey.

"I'm not in that world anymore."

The film is meant for the rush of silence in our everyday lives where the short, sudden moment should invite the unsettling thoughts: Just how should we measure the lengths and pursuits of human pride? How long can a love that treads on the thin ice last? Where at surface, the crystalline white glimmer with hope only to soon submerge in the burdens of a future told inevitably by time.

In a short time's manner, two individuals will ironically tell the story of the greatness in time itself.

Time is a measure. No. It's a distance.

No.

It's a thought.

Time is brilliantly concluded to be the series of thoughts accumulated throughout each passing day of our lives. Every moment is to be remembered or forgotten. Although the plot seems almost too fantastical in its likelihood, it presents the utmost extreme into which the end of time is made. The longingess for one another was what had been carried across the great lapse in time and it was this very longingess that, on their final stage, reminds these characters of their previous chapters filled with such simple senses from the sound of the rain to the light touch of spring soil.

An end in time was what was able to make these unthinkable thoughts that were once lost in the backgrounds of our daily lives all the more memorable.

My final words are: If you have the little time to spare, give this film a go. I promise you that this is worth every second for its message that should be carried out even further in time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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