Yet another brightly-coloured nothing.
A humanoid robot made by a massive company stumbles into a forest and saves an entire ecosystem from … functioning as it should? Truly a story that needs to be told right now.
… I think it's time for me to stop watching Hollywood animations.
Weird, hard to follow, melodramatic, entirely over-the-top, and problematic in at least half a dozen ways. I think I kinda liked it. Maybe.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
--- Mild spoilers, but not much more than what the description above already reveals ---
When you make your main character this despicable over the course of the film, you better have a darn good point to make. I felt like Queen of Hearts tried to lure me into liking Anne, only to reveal that she's capable of doing terrible things. But so what? Should I feel bad or culpable for having liked her? Should I feel conflicted about her…
I did not expect – nor wish – to see a woman with the mental age of an infant getting continuously and relentlessly sexualized, but here we are. It feels like Lanthimos has teamed up with Nicolas Winding Refn, Luca Guadagnino and Alex Garland to convince people that men should stop making movies for a while. Even about feminism. Especially about feminism.
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