Grainy, moving drawings of hyper-modern life in which film cells are like snapshots with back-lighting torqued to maximize presentation of the lyrical in everyday life. The halting, poetic dialogue. The generous silences. Exaggeration of sublime aspects of the present (tall buildings, military globalism, ideological division) to suggest the future. The elision of science and technological progress (treated thematically, not literally--i.e. this is not hard sci fi) with dreams. Those threshold times in life (high school, young love, summer break) echoed in epic, large scale: War, Progress. The focus on the small and intimate within this, often with a natural detailing: a butterfly on the hand of a character, the rustling of the grass.
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