When the world is following the footsteps of Hollywood to give life to artificial intelligence and robots, and to develop interesting stories between people and things, a Japanese director named Hirokazu Kore-eda chose a tool commonly known as inflatable dolls to give it a human soul.
It was Director Zhi who filmed "Air Doll", which was completely different from his shooting style, after reaching his creative peak in 2008. Previously, he was expressing the intertwined emotions of the characters with restraint and calmness, and was accustomed to the way of filming documentaries; now this film does the opposite, highlighting a person's emotions, the actors perform a lot of individual performances, and analyze the characters in a delicate and in-depth manner. He did not overemphasize the horizontal changes of the characters' emotions, but made a vertical analysis of the characters' emotions, which became more and more in-depth. It has to be said that Hirokazu Kore-eda is the recorder of emotions, a master of emotions recorded on film.
It is Zhi who mostly uses fixed shots. In this film, slow moving shots are used, which are gradual, conveying emotion from every breath of the audience.
This movie doesn't have the old stalk of seeing new creatures like the type of "I, Robot" fantasy movies, but completely weakens it and focuses on the undercurrent of emotion. Movies of this type generally make the protagonist a concentrated reflection of the humanity of the people around them, while "Air Doll" reflects the various emotions of the protagonist in the surrounding people.
This work is actually a branch, and there are some shortcomings under the superb acting skills of Pei Doona and the in-depth exploration of human emotions. For example, the connection between the protagonist and the grandfather is a bit abrupt, and there is a segment of recitation similar to preaching that lowers the grade of the film, and the too delicate depiction ignores the coherence of some plots.
However, the scene design of the video store is in line with my taste. The warm-toned picture processing makes Pei Doona very beautiful, and the picture as pure as air tightly clasps the word "air".
All this turned a male film that should have been "passionate" into a warm popular film (although the design of Dew Point could not pass our country's review). This can be regarded as the new attempt to break away from the "Ozu-style" style.
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