The whole thing is delivered with the vividness and force of a good revenge fantasy. The theme, if you ask me, is heartbreak and bitter romance and the journey through it all, but experienced as it can only be experienced in the teens and early twenties, when the drama is lurid and the setbacks are brutal and echoing and unprecedented. A ship rolls over humpbacked low-poly waves.

A deer bounds across a fractal winter forest. A highway grows ambitious and launches itself at the sky. You move, you avoid, you collect, you match the rhythm, and around you one thing becomes another, becomes another, becomes another. What sticks this together is interaction. In another it is a dizzying headlong rush of ideas, pranks, nightmares, middle-eights and other glittering fragments. In one way, Sayonara Wild Hearts is absolute simplicity. It's a game I want to shake and then hold to my ear, listening for a rattle, for a hint of the shape of the internal mechanism. Availability: Out September 19th on PS4, Switch and iOS (as part of Apple Arcade)Īnd here is Sayonara Wild Hearts.It's not just film: Ralph Ellison, when asked why his second novel was taking so many decades to finish, generally replied by saying that he was working on 'the transitions.' (Also, his house burned down at one point, which can't have helped.) Sayonara Wild Hearts review

So how do you stick things together? Some of the best film-makers find their movies in the edit, in that frightening, abstract landscape where time is fractured and can spin backwards, forwards, sideways if you want, while, simultaneously, the cutting suite is littered with old Hula-Hoop packets, its tables haloed with coffee stains. It's so strange, really, that at the heart of such a mysterious process should be something so deeply, infuriatingly practical. Simogo shuffles through a stacked deck of rhythm-action delights, mastering yet another genre.Ī huge part of any creative endeavour, I suspect, is learning how to stick things together.

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