Synopsis
In a sapless, heartless and colorless city full of skyscrapers, an old and tired inventor is doing a monotonous job of making same products over and over on a factory's assembly line. He expects his invention of something would make his life meaningful.
Inspired by the happy memory of childhood, he invents a binocular which gives gaudy colors to the colorless reality. This stirs the world and the old man becomes the
boss of the factory, respected as the greatest inventor. Nevertheless, there still arel emptiness and fear lingering in his mind. Why? His binocular can create a beautiful image but fails to revive the essence of his memory he so much cherishes.
More is a dystopia fantasy, dark yet fascinating enough to make us feel it's like a dense mixture of Metropolis and Citizen Kane. The pathetic theme is rendered fully while a combination of clay and cell animations create an overflow of desolate and fantastic images.
The gloomy sound track, < Elegia > by British techno-pop band NEW ORDER suits the mood. It is said that Director Mark Osborne was inspired to come up with a story when he heard < Elegia > in a car.
Sundance Film Festival awarded the Grand Jury Prize on More for the first time for an animation film. It's the first stop motion animation in I-max format and had run at the I-max theatre of Science Center in Los Angeles, California.
(HONG Sung-Nam)