Life changing, beautiful, and cute.
Pro Tip: There’s absolutely no dialogue in this. Plenty of characters, arcs, etc., but no dialogue. If that’s not your thing, be forewarned.
Otherwise this is a very beautiful and relaxing film. It’d work in an enormous number of contexts: Theaters, as a cozy movie in, with your friends, as a date movie, etc. High rewatch value.
Young boy processing the death of his mother descends into a pocket dimension where a man is The Creator with the assistance of a mystical rock from the actual Creator. There, he gets to process both his mother’s death and the collective trauma of Japanese Fascism.
If you’re willful to what The Creator gives you, your entire world will fall apart.
The grand-uncle is in a sense willful to the actual Creator like this, in creating the pocket dimension. The…
It’s like they had a really intelligent movie and a good alien movie and then added a bad alien movie to it
After reading more about the series (have only seen this, the original, and Prometheus) I realize that this movie encapsulates the whole series and my concerns with the series. It’s at its best as a suspense thriller, and it’s a masterpiece then. It has some strong themes that it struggles slightly to communicate, but that keeps it a…
