While Episode 10 might be my favorite, this episode means the world to me. For years I have been searching for something that explores how repressed childhood trauma manifests itself from the past into the present future, and finally I have found it. The entire story tied itself together here thematically and narratively. I am so glad I watched this. I don't understand the reviewers who prefer the first half to the second-the second half is where all the subtext and subconscious, psychological aftereffects of events and emotions we repress finally come out.
Oh and I love the whole Silent Hill escapism aspect, and the father/daughter aspect between the former detective and the creator of Maromi. Not to mention the detective's flashback, tying things back to a brief storyline from my next favorite episode: ETC. I will say his resolution came a little bit too swiftly, but hey maybe I can build on these ideas in a movie or show of my own.
I'm so sad Satoshi Kon passed away in 2010; he was a genius and I am so grateful to have been exposed to his work.
Oh and I love the whole Silent Hill escapism aspect, and the father/daughter aspect between the former detective and the creator of Maromi. Not to mention the detective's flashback, tying things back to a brief storyline from my next favorite episode: ETC. I will say his resolution came a little bit too swiftly, but hey maybe I can build on these ideas in a movie or show of my own.
I'm so sad Satoshi Kon passed away in 2010; he was a genius and I am so grateful to have been exposed to his work.
