The lonely people in the city~

Chance 2022-01-22 08:04:36

When we look for the beauty of love, when we don’t care about the worldly vision of falling in love, or when we conceal something about love, is the ending of this love story beautiful or a failure?


The film is adapted from the manga of the same name by the Japanese manga artist Yada Yoshika [Air Humanoid]. The story tells the story of a middle-aged restaurant waiter Hideo (played by Itao Soro) living with his inflatable doll Xiaowang (played by Pei Douna) in an old apartment in Tokyo. One day Xiao Wang suddenly found that he had a heart and an idea, and he was no longer just an inflatable doll. He was curious about everything in his eyes and saw all kinds of people. One evening he met Junichi (played by ARATA) who works in a video store. Because of Junichi's kind attitude, he unconsciously fell in love with him. So Xiaowang went to work in a video tape store, and everything seemed so beautiful, until one day she accidentally scratched her wrist and became discouraged in front of Junichi... After



watching the movie, she really couldn't help but appreciate the movie. Anyone who has seen the director’s other works "The House of Taste of Yokoyama" and "Summer Morning Before No One Knows" can find the existing feeling and style in this movie. As mentioned above, Zhizhi's past style always gives me a very plain but simple, simple and deep feeling. Although it is always indifferent, the meaning of the movie actually points out the right thoughts and opinions very clearly. So I was a little surprised and curious when I heard that he was going to make a comic adaptation. But when I learned that it was a remake of Ye Tian Liang's work, I felt that way.


I have never read this book myself, and only used some text introductions and snippets of comics on the Internet to get to know the author. The author’s work is different from the Japanese manga that everyone has been exposed to in the past, but rather discusses current affairs and some social views, and reflects some social conditions (if you are interested, you can refer to the official website of Atomic Image). Previously, his work was also reproduced by Tsutsumi Yukihiko, but the works of Yuji Eddie, most of which reflect the problems of various social strata. Therefore, it is quite appropriate to hear that Eddie reproduced his work.


Originally, after watching the trailer, I thought it would be a story similar to [Pinocchio], in which life is added to a humanoid object. I don’t know how many times I have watched this kind of movie. However, after watching this movie, I realized that it was not just that. On the contrary, the movie looked like a fairy tale, but it was a fable movie full of metaphors.


The inflatable doll is a tool used by modern people to satisfy inner loneliness. It can be seen from the life of the owner Xiu Xiong, who is a little hopeful, that the air doll is not only a tool for him to vent his sexual desires, but also to make up for some defects in his own heart. In the past, we would always show inflatable dolls in an erotic and playful way. But Director Shiede viewed this society from the perspective of inflatable dolls from another point of view. To a certain extent, the relationship between people is sometimes the same as a person and an inflatable doll. Even if there is passion, it still cannot fit in the heart. Just like Xiao Wang always said in the film, "I am an inflatable doll, a substitute that anyone can replace without thinking." Does it also point to the sense of alienation between people in modern society?


Through an inflatable doll's yearning for love and self-worth, the movie allows us to follow in his footsteps to understand the "heart", understand "love", and explore the meaning of "life" to make people think. Although the structure is based on otaku culture, it did not deliberately create a goddess of otaku culture (but Pei Douna feels it), so it seems that the prince and princess are about to live a happy and happy life, but they are abruptly awakened by a knife. . The plot is like a cruel Grimm's fairy tale, which has a great impact on me. At the moment, I don't understand why I need to arrange Xiaowang's life in this way. Love that is already full of restlessness is like holding a balloon in a careful sense. Who can guarantee whether this relationship is more cruel in reality. I think this is a view of people's feelings and feelings nowadays, which means it is a bit abstract.


At the end of the movie, it started lightly and ended lightly. There are many pictures in the film that are amazing. But what impressed me the most was the scene where Xiaowang was thinking about his birthday cake in the garbage dump. It reminded me of the dream that the alien gave the little boy David in the end in "AI Artificial Intelligence". I think At that time, Xiao Wang was the same as David, I hope this dream will never stop. People always have many simple wishes, but who knows that the purer the hope, the harder it is to achieve. Perhaps that moment is the only happiness in this movie.


The film's success is not just the film. The script uses the work of Ye Tian Liangjia, the screen is shot by Li Pingbin, the soundtrack invites World's End Girlfriend (they are really great), and the art director invites Tan Tian Yangping. , Even Pei Dou Na. The director brought together well-known filmmakers in the Asian film circle to produce this film, and also made this film present a coordinated poetry.






Finally, in the


movie, the old man quoted a poem "Life" by Hiroshi Yoshino:


"Life may not be successfully created by its own power, just like a flower, even if the pistils and stamens are gathered, they still need insects and breeze. Visiting connects the relationship between the pistil and the stamen. Life essentially harbours an important lack and is fulfilled by the existence of others. The


world may be the sum of all the others. However, we are both unaware and never aware of our own important lack. I was told that... we are so sown. The seeds are always cold distance, but sometimes it is unbearable but can maintain the relationship. Just like this, the world is cleverly constructed. Why is this? The


flowers are in full bloom. I found a horse like there is fly so he's flying in the wind in light of the


time when I have to be a horse who flies, right?


Once upon a time you are able to perfect my breeze that it "


watching the film, the feeling is almost more Understand the meaning of this poem by Hiroshi Yoshino.

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Air Doll quotes

  • Nozomi: It seems life is constructed in a way that no one can fulfill it alone.

    Nozomi: Just as it's not enough for flowers to have pistils and stamens, an insect or a breeze must introduce a pistil to a stamen...

    Nozomi: Life contains its own absence, which only an other can fulfill...

    Nozomi: It seems the world is the summation of others and yet, we neither know nor are told that we will fulfill each other...

    Nozomi: We lead our scattered lives, perfectly unaware of each other...

    Nozomi: Or at times, allowed to find the other's presence disagreeable...

    Nozomi: Why is it that the world is constructed so loosely?

  • Nozomi: Having a heart was heartbreaking.