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Dôruzu (2002)
No words to describe it
One of my friends once asked me to talk about Dolls, since it was a movie that really charmed me, and it's one of my favorites.
I really had to think carefully before starting to give any description... How can you describe a movie like this one?
You should see it.
Too hard to concentrate in words the symbols, atmospheres, emotions, silence, and everything you can find in this great work if you're thoughtful and receptive enough.
I'd really not recommend it if you like "light" and fast paced films, that's for sure. Dolls is so sad it sticks to your soul for hours, and its best parts are the ones you can catch from images, metaphors and details, that speak and live more than the plot itself and its dialogs can do.
This film is made for thinking, and it has a very special way to show thoughts, not for everyone in my humble opinion.
Dolls is 3 love stories, but I think love isn't the "main" theme... I'd say it covers a series of details, feelings and absurd things. The characters are always stroke by a world with a series of incidents and expectations that brings 'em far away from their dreams.
Dolls is aesthetic, and poetry.
Kagen no tsuki (2004)
Nice, but nothing to scream "wonderful" about.
Kagen no Tsuki might appear really strange/slow/targeted to fangirls only, but I think it would be unfair to underestimate it so much. Even if it's a movie inspired to a manga, and with a singer as one of the actors, in my opinion, it's not bad.
It has its very annoying moments, anyway... - Spoiler alert - The very start is quite slow and makes it look like some romantic crap for teenagers, but if you can get after the birthday scene and the small "tragedies" striking Mizuki, it gets quite interesting later, if you're a person who likes ghost stories, reincarnation and romantic things.
It's not a GREAT film, one of these movies that will make you clap your hands and talk about it to everyone you know, but it grants a good time anyway, especially to people who is more used to Japanese culture in general.
The story is very sad, and a bit too much "romantic" sometimes, like a fairy tale... but some scenes are really well-designed.
- Spoiler alert 2 - At the very end of the movie, and the titles... you can see both Mizuki and Adam on a boat. That scene is still stuck in my mind. As the "gate" of the house, as symbol to the gate from limbo to the world of dead is another thing I can't forget. Sometimes, when I see a girl handing a present to someone, I immediately remember Sayaka.
Maybe a part of me still likes fairy-tales.