Air doll roams the world

Nico 2022-01-22 08:04:36

With the love of "Non-stop", after that, it was Hirokazu Edema who released a movie "Air Doll" with magical realism. The air puppet possessing the "human heart" began a journey into the world at a loss. She hums and sings the theme song of "Innocent War" and goes to work in a video rental shop called "Circus Journey". After get off work, she took off her clothes, lay back on the bed, and made a puppet again. Her function—a tool for people to vent their desires—becomes a kind of reference: how do people enrich themselves?

According to the interpretation of Japanese traditional culture, people's souls are "hidden" in the abdomen. In this sense, it was Zhi Yuhe who endowed Xiaowang with "people's hearts", which is a Westernized expression. Furthermore, the image motif of "Air Puppet" is the emptiness of human hearts in the process of Japan's modernization. Housekeeping, maid costumes, lolicon, and makeup control can all find a certain degree of teasing in the film. What is particularly powerful is that it is Hirokazu Edema that injects questions about the fundamental way of human existence in this "roaming the world" perspective. How exactly do people live? In the climax passage, Xiaowang cut through Junichi's belly with a knife and asked him, "Excuse me, where is your inflatable hole?" The reference between Xiaowang and Junichi came to the screen.

In the end, Xiao Wang fatefully became a kind of incombustible garbage. Overall, it is Hirokazu Ee's "Air Doll" that seems to be an elegant and indifferent electronic music. Its musical note jumped out of the existential crisis encountered by mankind in the process of modernization.

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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.