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I'm not sure I can do this thing justice. Let me try - you certainly can't put rating stars on a thing like this because it's going to be some peoples' tastes and some people are going to hate it and both are likely right.
Sturgill Simpson is a ?country? music singer. I say that with question marks because although he works in that style he's made a reputation as a maverick, fighting with the big country music establishment. He's also experimented with other styles. Sound & Fury is his 4th studio album, and it's also the genesis for this Netflix ... adaptation? into an anime-based post-apocalyptic half-hour spectacle written and directed by the relatively unknown Jumpei Mizusaki.
OK, that's not working. Try this... imagine if Heavy Metal (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/) was remade with early-21st-century sensibilities, and stripped of all plot in favor of country metal music. Still no?
OK, one more try... imagine if the next sequel to Mad Max was made by people who grew up on Japanimation, violent video games, and country rock. Except without the plot, but keep the violence and greed and over-the-top aesthetic.
Basically, Sturgill Simpson Present Sound & Fury is a heavily thematic pastiche of visual scenes done in black and white hand-drawn, computer animation, stop-motion, and lots of anime stylings.
P.S. Definitely stick around for the post-credits
Sturgill Simpson is a ?country? music singer. I say that with question marks because although he works in that style he's made a reputation as a maverick, fighting with the big country music establishment. He's also experimented with other styles. Sound & Fury is his 4th studio album, and it's also the genesis for this Netflix ... adaptation? into an anime-based post-apocalyptic half-hour spectacle written and directed by the relatively unknown Jumpei Mizusaki.
OK, that's not working. Try this... imagine if Heavy Metal (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/) was remade with early-21st-century sensibilities, and stripped of all plot in favor of country metal music. Still no?
OK, one more try... imagine if the next sequel to Mad Max was made by people who grew up on Japanimation, violent video games, and country rock. Except without the plot, but keep the violence and greed and over-the-top aesthetic.
Basically, Sturgill Simpson Present Sound & Fury is a heavily thematic pastiche of visual scenes done in black and white hand-drawn, computer animation, stop-motion, and lots of anime stylings.
P.S. Definitely stick around for the post-credits
