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Better Late Then Never

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

If you are a sensitive, emphatic person, you might love this movie. It creates this most real and delightful moments, where you cry and laugh at the same time. Very rare and full of emotional, human depth. Not for people who think in Dual-code, but for those with quanta-think-ability. Its the energy of the movie, which catches me the most and i can not exactly explain why. For me this is Kitanos best movie. I thought, that the purple leaves are not real, but when i went to Japan, i discovered, that they are even more beautiful in reality. The deeper Topic of the movie is Choice and Destiny... Do we have a choice or are we just Dolls in the Hands of a higher Being, or maybe both at the same time..?

The first five minutes of "Dolls" had me at odds with the film, and very close to turning it off. But the first five minutes are extremely important, and as the movie went on I liked it more. I will have you know that there is no happy ending in this movie, and the final scene made me sick to my stomach with sorrow. But it is truly a moving film, that will have you thinking about the dimensions of love and what it has become in today's society. In most romantic dramas, there is usually sex, but not so in this, which made me want to applaud the director for showing the depths of love without the physical part. There is also very little dialogue, so you MUST pay attention to the screen. Overall, it is a bittersweet study of six individuals all coping with lost love in one way or another. Bravo.

Actions have consequences,a concept increasingly recondite in our world of counselling, anger management and loving the sinner whilst hating the sin. Dolls exists in a less forgiving moral universe. A young man betrays his lover and rather than meet her again years later and retrieve her trust in some antiseptic romcom, he is doomed to a futile and anguished quest for his lost honour; another young man abandons his lover for wealth and power and is destroyed by the emptiness of the life he has chosen and the impossibility of a return to happiness; a woman's beauty is destroyed and her life ruined by her most fervent admirer. Each of the three stories in Dolls is a classic tragedy and the first two at least resonate with an irony and a force little seen outside Shakespeare.It is not simply the plots that haunt us, however. The acting is uniformly excellent, the direction equally so and the overall effect haunting and completely absorbing. Mention must be made of the Art Direction by Norihiro Isoda, some of the sequences and settings are literally breathtaking.The film is inspired by traditional Bunraku puppet theatre, wherein the puppets are designed to represent eternal qualities. One cannot avoid the suspicion that Asian cinemas's connection with the values that distinguish what human history often prizes as human nature might form a real threat to the 'audience share' of the relatively meretricious values of Hollywood. If the result is more films of the calibre of Dolls then Hollywood's is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd.

I was flipping channels and came upon this movie this morning. What a depressing piece of artsy tripe! *I am tagging this as possible spoilers, I don't think they are but just in case.So we got 2 people tied together by a red rope who walk around like they are in some sort of catatonic state through the entire picture(totally depressing), the second storyline has something to do with a pop singing star and a couple of obsessed fans that follow her around like they only live for her alone(depressing with no lives) and the third story seems to be about an old woman who sits on a park bench every day at lunch time with two lunches waiting for her ex boyfriend who hasn't shown up in apparently 50 years. (that one is just flat sad)Though the landscaping is very pretty and has lots of contrasts in reds and greens the actors really destroy a decent film about the trees and landscape of Japan.