I agree that it is a very flawed film, but I enjoyed more than just the visuals. Specifically, I actually very much enjoyed the story of his battle to find somewhere to live and work while trying to find his sister and find a cure to cold snaps and long winters. I thought the first 3 quarters of the film did a pretty decent job of weaving back and forth between the main narrative and the dream world. It probably helps that I don't mind a slow paced movie and I don't need a living character to be the "bad guy"
My real problem is with the last quarter, where the dream sequences end, along with the quest for his sister, and then randomly he has to die to make the volcano explode and save everyone. And then the just movie ends. While I got tired of the Christian elements, I quite like Night on the Galactic railroad as it more or less resolved all of it's narratives. 'Gusko Budori no Denki' just sort of feels like they got tired of writing the plot somehwere around the climax (lets say when he goes to the university) and just sort of wrote in a lazy ending. It slowly builds up for no real pay-off, which I'd say NotGR for the most part had.
I agree that it is a very flawed film, but I enjoyed more than just the visuals. Specifically, I actually very much enjoyed the story of his battle to find somewhere to live and work while trying to find his sister and find a cure to cold snaps and long winters. I thought the first 3 quarters of the film did a pretty decent job of weaving back and forth between the main narrative and the dream world. It probably helps that I don't mind a slow paced movie and I don't need a living character to be the "bad guy"
My real problem is with the last quarter, where the dream sequences end, along with the quest for his sister, and then randomly he has to die to make the volcano explode and save everyone. And then the just movie ends. While I got tired of the Christian elements, I quite like Night on the Galactic railroad as it more or less resolved all of it's narratives. 'Gusko Budori no Denki' just sort of feels like they got tired of writing the plot somehwere around the climax (lets say when he goes to the university) and just sort of wrote in a lazy ending. It slowly builds up for no real pay-off, which I'd say NotGR for the most part had.