This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Yet another film I was lured into due to the glowing high ratings on Letterboxd. Fortunately, this one was short.
All of the men in this movie were lifeless human-esque creatures, looking and behaving like animated corpses, and quite literally numbers. All of them, tabula rasa style, had no concepts of the 'life' they had (I hesitate to use the word 'possessed'), learning everything, from how to move to how their world operated, with no internal programming or outer cues…
A cute chick, a less than average chick, and Ando Sakura get together for a several mile road trip to save the hot chick friend of the former and latter.
This movie barely has a plot, nearly no story to speak of, and did little with this nothingness. And yet, I thought it was adorable. However, it was the atmosphere that made this so spectacular. The scenery, the dreary and desolate winter backdrop, and the unspoken mannerisms of the girls…
Before my review even begins, I find it necessary to clarify my own opinions and tendencies. I am not a consumer of mainstream media, from cable news (Fox News, CNN), to local news, to radio, to newspapers and magazines, and my trust in it is nonexistent. My information primarily comes from 'new media' (YouTubers, streams), a small few publications, which may include mainstream sources from time to time, and studies, research papers, and so on, all of which I conduct…
I've seen people rave over this film, but I don't see anything special myself. It tells an oversimplification of someone's life with goofy and stereotypical acting. At first, I felt essentially nothing, the film itself conveying minimal emotion and depth. After a few minutes, it did sink in a bit more and I appreciated its efforts, but while the idea may be nice, it suffers from being a little too cutesy.
