Film Review: The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a multi-seasonal film spearheaded under the commissioning direction of Henry Selick and Tim Burton's visionary conception, and is immediately discernable as a motion picture emblematic of the filmmaker's esoteric and arcane hallmark machinations. A film angled at a family audience, the bizarre mystique inherent to Burton is pervasive throughout the thematic tone in ubiquity, but is conveyed with an attitude palatable on a universal scale; And the testament to that ambition is palpable for its endurance by way of the lead character-the ordained "Pumpkin King" of Halloweentown, Jack Skelligton-as he ventures out into the vague haze of the unknown, spurred on by his exhausted fatigue with the monotony of a relentlessly recurring perpetual cycle of the annual ceremony of the festival of Samhain. Desperate for the invigoration of new discovery to infuse excitement in his life, he inadvertently blundered into Christmastown, and was enlightened to the available delights that he relished in and yearned to share the ecstasy with the fellow inhabitants of his indigenous town.
A Pristine Parabolic Masterpiece
While even the most pedantic and meticulous scouring of the material wouldn't necessarily settle upon any single element of the film that would drastically distinguish itself from the sundry of sensational aspects the film is fraught with in the best of ways, the plausibility of Danny Elfman's representative encapsulation of the astonishment and glee that Skelligton was inundated with as he embarked on his voyage of discovery was utterly compelling. And it combined seamlessly with the execution of the visual splendour to complement one another in attempting to ingratiate the audience's own mesmerism. There is a vital contrast in the aesthetic depiction of the moroseness rife within Halloweentown, and then the spectacular appearance of Christmastown's vibrancy, and that is reflected in the comparative dawning of the lead character's exuberant blossoming emergence.
The transcendence of the feature's versatile and expansive appeal is echoed in its salient relevance to multiple festive seasons-A remarkable feat that few others have accomplished, or even attempted to the same degree. There was an endearing "it" factor to the audacity of the film's faultless ambition, and the advocates it has garnered have attested to the harmonious resonance of the chord it struck within them; Leaving them reeling with reverence and admiration. MAny would argue that that is validation enough for the reason that it has not been replicated since. All of the attributed accolades have culminated in a product worthy of the uppermost recommendation at an epitomising echelon of exaltation.
