Inexplicably, the doll has a heart and a key, and can open the door of the male number one's house, go out and meet the male number two, and start a romantic love story. Unfortunately, in the end, the doll heroine found that she was a substitute after all, just from the replacement of the ex-girlfriend of the male No. 1 to the replacement of the ex-girlfriend of the male No. 2.
Not only the female protagonist is a substitute, but many characters in the movie are substitutes and can be replaced at any time. The male lead is a middle-aged waiter who can be replaced at any time. The lonely old man has been doing it all his life. The substitute teacher and the older, single front desk lady often worry about being replaced by a young and beautiful female colleague, and even the second male is replaced by a voyeuristic otaku after his death. These characters all have one thing in common - life's losers.
How to treat these losers in life, this is the director's concern. It was Hirokazu Koeda who was very different from Yasujiro Ozu. He was compassionate, more like Confucius in China, and Ozu like Lao Tzu. And this film expresses his concern for these vulnerable groups. He expressed his criticism through the mouth of the lonely old man, "Everyone is the same, but it's empty inside", so bluntly criticized the emptiness of people in the city; "People with cold hands usually have warm hearts. ", is an irony, criticizing people from the negative side for lack of sympathy, because normal people's hands are not "cold".
It can be said that Hirokazu-eda’s compassion in this movie is obvious, but the story structure is flawed and unreasonable, so that when the movie appears at the end, the second male lead will ask for the heroine’s anger for no reason. , and then help her blow air, causing the heroine to mistakenly kill the second male lead and lead to a blunt ending of self-destruction.
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