Angel's Egg

good visuals, painfully slow, you could argue that it's message is sophisticated, and not for bottom iq people, but it's so vague you can interpret it in many ways without ever knowing for sure what certain intentions were. Ex. it's about atheism and being free from religion, but what made sense in the world of the movie? what is the death egg purpose? what about the creatures in the egg-trees? what was in the angel's egg? what was really the soldier's purpose? it's not really made sure what was the conflict in the movie, or if there was a villain. You're left with symbols that aren't strictly defining, and can be frustrating, along with how long they drag out beautiful pictures for so long. All these previous things makes it hard to concrete things into meaning. I would say a commentary over this movie would be very eyeopening, it would call out a lot of bullshit that directors pull and try to force on the audience to try and figure out while shifting blame on them for "not getting it," like the Prometheus commentary. I would say if you want to watch this, please do not watch at 1X speed, maybe 1.25x-1.5x and hopefully that makes it have better pacing, but even that is prone to problems for what things happen in the movie.
This movie suffers from what many short films do,(and judging but how long they dragged their feet in the movie they tried really hard to hit that 71 minute mark) they make appealing environments,(sound, imaging, art,) in place of dialog and story, to come off as nuanced and meaningful, whether it is or not. It's like that trick of not telling a message so you have to come up with a solution yourself, and once you piece it, you feel better.Take for example, One Small Step, they spare you the dialog for nice visuals and music, to seem meaningful in a meaning that has already been told many times, and is nothing new, it just invokes an emotional response, however more straight forward than Angel's Egg. Really, Angel's egg is not a masterpiece and doesn't deserve a rating of 10 ever, and it's purpose as a movie seemed to be the same purpose of One Small step; to showcase art and animation and what they can accomplish visually, but not what they can accomplish in clever storytelling.