The Glassworker

The Glassworker: The film is narrated in a winning ‘western’ style, laced with Middle Eastern traditions. We appreciate Bizang’s mastery, eyebrows, lips, and faces while maintaining subplots that include a battle kink and village life adding a unique freshness to the farm. The pace of storytelling is superb as well!

I fell in love with the production aspects; embossed close-ups of the kitchenware, decoration, and furnishing where walls came alive with enchanting flora, the artistic directoroub in Paris astonishingly crafted an Art Nouveau-themed copper staircase, as well as the astonishingly beautiful art pieces hanging from the building’s podium: an incredibly detailed swallow on a backdrop of delicate red and golden colours. Mr. Nabawan I imagine, In terms of Natural Language, looks amazing! He is infectious.

However, despite the fact that The Glass Worker is entirely fictional and does not contain any Historical Context, it still manages to distinguish itself due to its cultural factors and most importantly, the Urdu Language, which its Director Usman Riaz from Manoanimation Studios describes as, “a way of taking ownership”, and yes! the recognition certainly does seem cool.

Summary

THE GLASSWORKER is a fascinating story of two young spirits of creation who are master glassblower Vincent Oliver and master violinist Alliz Amano and their artistic lives span a time when their town is beset by War’s fury. Life metaphors abound as glass is the core theme of the film. Life like glass; beautiful but fragile. Romance in the ‘this is Pakistan, this is how the drama goes’ mould finds a place and grows through the tale keeping the young eye in line.

What can be told is that there are interesting factors such as family related issues. Like background interaction, father’s disapproval of war due to morals and essence of Vincent’s nationalism being contested, and the plight of Vincent and Alliz in battling war tragedy to forge art portrays struggle of many of the artists in Pakistan post events of 9/11.

A battle in the head of Vincent himself, and a love story of Vincent and Alliz occupied with fragments of romance. All of them combine to make one’s emotions run wild. Therefore, the movie has a multi-dimensional appeal and viewing angle for audience of any age. No wonder Pakistani filmmakers are perfect in wooing the target audiences of The Glassworker.

DEVELOPMENT IN RELATION TO THE CHARACTER ARC:

While watching the film one will keep in mind that time invested in the movie will surely not be wasted as the characters in a journey are constructed quite well. All characters have clear links with their work, one can even say all characters are working professionally which is rare and tragic elements are introduced within past forty minutes so the story doesn’t sound to be a roller-coaster but an intriguing tale of love, grief, and unparalleled hope, courage and resolve.

A NARRATIVE AND ITS CONNECTION TO GHIBLI:

The storyline is also interesting and not exaggerated. However, to say that it’s on the level of Hayao Miyazaki films would be going a bit overboard. The story is engaging at first, and then it just drags towards the end when emotions from the Post-war setting of the country are lost. Personally, I didn’t experience any feelings of grief towards people affected by the war because there was very little or almost no representation of the post-war state of the nation. In contrast, in “The Wind Rises”, due to the circumstances of the hero’s dualism and the crisis of Japan in the Second World War Jiro was forced to love both his homeland and his working wife.

Interesting but not captivating. It’s predictable that the Japanese HERO’s goal would entail fighting for his country and winning the love of a European woman. Instead, the head PEACE negotiator gives in to JINN a side character who is an interesting concept of a character, but poorly developed, and all of this alters within a very inappropriate moment for the protagonist to toss war towards his homeland which ends with his father losing an arm. There may be a deliberate intention to portray Vincent as a frustrated hero, for there are wars within selves and even a hero can succumb to their own rage.

In another vein, Alliz Amano the girl whose love for Vincent is in vain as she chooses Malik khan owing to her father’s fateful save and a slew of defeated military men referring to this junior Guard as a ‘Hero’ of The Glassworker movie. Hero for what? The quick transition between what is supposed to be pre and post war situations hangs like a sore thumb on what is already a perfect plot.

For her, that Jinn which resides deeper than the underground has none other obligation than to maintain the image of the lettered-love’s endurance – except for the fact that it’s a quest for its amiability. The enchantment I have been anticipating and waiting for, instead came and remained latent, and unexpectedly of course, I was not let down. I am still in anticipation for the magic.

AMBIGOUS ENDING:

The conclusion I will describe as ambiguous, but not flawed, it is a great example of how open-ended one’s interpretation can be of this story that has been told. It is, in fact, enjoyable to leave the viewers in suspense and until the screen credits finally came out, I was fully absorbed and misappropriated. I would not regard this as closing the loops, but still what made it fascinating was this peculiar ‘JINN’ who has been impersonating himself as Alliz when there is no sign of Alliz or her family after they have taken the train out of the village and Airstrikes continue to prey on people. Whether Alliz is still alive or goes with the dead, the End remains very much unresolved and as I said imaginative along with your self-made theories, perhaps a sequel is in the offing? Who knows the The Glassworker!

SOUNDTRACKS AND VOICE:

Now talking about the soundtracks, I would say they were on point. And bet you! The BGM is simply amazing, it is totally satisfying and sweet to the ears. Overall, be it the transitional scenes or the subtle sounds in one of the scenes, it all was a pleasure to watch. The Aircraft SFX and Bombs SFX are sufficiently good enough to add soul to the scenes devoid of action. Furthermore, the voice actors portraying characters in Urdu with such intense and powerful voices truly makes it a captivating experience.

I challenge anyone to feel that they should turn away and concentrate on something else because it is entertaining for the ears.

ANIMATION AND CHARACTERS SKETCH:

Finally, considering the fact that it has been a decade since hand drawn images were created, animators would find it much easier to create engagement through hand drawn directions instead of looking for imagery or sounds which little to no background history, If it’s just very cute. I was more concerned about the South-Asian face styles or skin tones, but as the Director himself said, it was the Ghibli Studio in which he placed western scenes and therefore it looks good, so it felt really good.

But the Peshawari Topi, the Mother of Alliz’s cultural dress, and a Pakistani scene in the background provide plenty of Desi warmth to the motion picture. The Animation is simply stunning, I mean backdrop scenes as well as vivid colors in every frame of the picture are very satisfying, and like every Pakistani watching first-time a Pakistan-made international show, I’d imagine it’s, “Ye Pakistani to lag hi nai raha”. I will speak about Settlements.

TAKE OUTS: The Glassworker depicts a beautiful narration of love and them, love and the fight for survival in war. Such movies portray life as a war with no happy endings, as a ghibli fan one should brace himself/herself for the expectations this film will generate. It isn’t one of those films which bombard you with public expectations or sudden outbursts of different emotions, but slowly and gently takes over you through its 80 minute journey of how love and life unfolds in the most uncomplicated manner.

The characters offer Pakistani Humor dialogues which provokes laughter out of time to time and makes it a so-so and entertaining watch. In terms of the emotions one feels when watching such images of a war torn country, the emotional outburst could have been eye opening.

In contrast to the modern capitalist notions regarding relationships, the feelings shared by Vincent and Alliz see them as people tangled up in separate boats; nevertheless, it still possesses the aspect of waiting over one’s shoulders; or waiting until they are “shuffled” to us by the sad moments, and the story comes to an end which gives personal interpretation.

It’s kind of insane and yet, fictional. As the concept seems. Most recently, It’s highly advised to visit Pakistan first because it’s the first ever The Glassworker film from the country and it’s best to view the movie in the theatres for the ultimate visual fictional portrayal.

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