Totalitarian Blueberry: What a concept

The Totalitarian Blueberry
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by Warren Wagner

The Totalitarian Blueberry is a concept move, so it won't be getting the full-out review, just so you know. Blueberry boasts a custom palatte and soliloquy based humour to carry it along. While a good setup for a concept movie, and certainly impressive given it was created and completed in 4 days, it suffers from stale camera angles and fairly obvious dialogue.

Story
A man is obsessive-cumpulsive, and is bothered by those little things in life, and boy does he let us know it. Wagner seems to know all the ins and outs needed to portray this sort of disorder, but his writing is heavy-handed, optioning for the obvious rather than the subtle. The internal monologue works well enough for its purposes, but it lacks the opportunity for the audience to figure out the problem.
This would make a great scene inside a movie, I suppose, once the audience has learned more about the character at hand. Then there might be more of a chance to find out the problem rather than have it fed to you.

Presentation
The movie is presented with a custom color pallette, boasting the technical powers of v3DMM. The only color is blue, a device borrowed from such movies as Schindler's List, Pleasantville, and Sin City. It works well for the storytelling purposes.
The bother is some of the camera angles become overly repetitive. In some movies, it's good to have the camera move, in some it's not, but this isn't one of them. For some scenes it works well, but others scream for some panning effects.
There is one zoom that utilizes the campan feature of 7gen, but it comes off as jerky in the end.
Warrens style is all there, though. This movie succeeds because the lack of camera movements clearly feels like the director's intent, not just some lazy method of moviemaking. The camera belongs to Wagner, and it shows. From an artistic perspective, I disagree, but he doesn't.

Visuals
The star of the show is the custom pallette. The implementation really adds to the feeling of being inside the character's head in ways that otherwise would have necessitated much more work.
Other than that, the visuals are pretty basic. The concept is key here, and because of it, one can ignore the 2000-like visuals.

Sound
Two words: Sammy Sagitarius.
Sammy's delivery of Wagner's script is spot-on, and, I'm sure, just what the director ordered. Sammy draws the audience in with the sometimes frenzied tone of the character. His portreyal helps to build towards a climax, as he starts of calm, but slowly descends into further madness before completely freaking out at the end.

The Final Word
It's hard to form a full-length review on this sort of movie, so I didn't try to. Blueberry is a solid concept piece, but lacks in cinematic aspects. It's a worthy download to see a short, funny, and effective demonstration for v3DMM.

****** (6/10) Above average