The story of an average Japanese worker’s love doll coming
to life is a bizarre premise, I admit, but the result is a fantastic
film.
She awakens to the world without prejudices, sees it with new eyes and an emotional state that’s untainted by years of modern
living. Through her we meet a small number of lonely people with secret lives, people
who do no harm to anyone but exist on the fringes, for whom the city is a
collection of impersonal aspects and cold, unknowable faces.
The story does most
of what you’d expect it to do but with so much heart ingrained in the subtext that it touches perfection
many times.
4½ deep breaths out of 5
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