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Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

CountZero313 An inflatable sex doll acquires a soul and wanders off to explore what people are really like. At first she feels different because she is empty, but she comes to discover that human beings, too, are empty.That's pretty much all this film has to say, but it takes a very long time to say it. Some may say the lyricism, visual poetry, episodic delight and elegiac moments are reward enough. Personally, I found the lack of narrative coherence and complexity crushing. There is no philosophical exploration here, unless you consider on-the-nose dialogue about the fleeting nature of existence and our Godless mortality philosophy. The lack of character differentiation - everyone is lonely, maudlin, mildly misanthropic - makes the narrative progression flat and laboured.The film most closely resembles Koreeda's Maboroshi. Both films feature outstanding performances from female leads (Bae Doo-na being more expressive than Esumi) displaced from their usual realm and facing existential crisis. Both films have gorgeous imagery. Both films take too long to convey very little. Still Walking is Koreeda at his finest. The cruelty, humanity, wicked humour and scalpel-like dissection of human interaction portrayed in that film are all absent here.Far too self-aware as art house and lacking any motivation for the characters, the film itself ends up being the very theme that it intends to explore - soulless.

zetes A big disappointment. It comes from one of the world's finest director (among others he's made Nobody Knows, Mabarosi, After Life and Still Walking). It also stars one of the world's finest actresses, Bae Doo-na (The Host, Linda Linda Linda, Barking Dogs Never Bight, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Take Care of My Cat). To boot, it starts off fairly well. Bae Doo-na plays a blow-up doll who comes to life. Initially, she is absolutely fascinated with the human world and enjoys life to the fullest extent. Sure, it's not deep. Pretty much it's just Bae Doo-na walking around in a French maid outfit looking adorable. At worst, that's perfectly tolerable. Unfortunately, around the halfway point, the film changes from a goofy, fantastical romantic comedy to a ridiculously maudlin story of loneliness. Some of the plot twists are flat-out laughable, and the fantasy itself is fairly silly, but it's treated like this is the universe's greatest tragedy. Perhaps the fact that I had to watch the film in two sections made the change feel more abrupt (I'm definitely open to giving it a second chance someday), but, whatever the reason, the movie as a whole did not work for me.

KineticSeoul When I first heard about this movie, I thought it was going to be similar to "LARS AND THE REAL GIRL". But instead of the plot revolving around the guy that is obsessed over a blow up doll, the story is mainly told in the blow up dolls point of view when she comes to life and finds a heart. And yeah some aspects of the film is creepy as it's sounds, kinda creepy version of Pinocchio and also seems to have more depth to it as well. The thing is for the most part, the premise is sort of original and was pretty interesting for the first half of the movie, but slowly started to lose my interest. Basically starts out with a living blow up doll that acts similar to a girl that has amnesia and has to learn everything all over again while falling in love, than later goes in the darker parts of life direction. Which worked fine, but didn't really grab my attention all the way through. The theme is about the value of life that makes us human and goes in the bright and dark side of life in a sort of a fairy tale manner. While also showing how people make substitutes for the stuff they want or have lost. From what I know blow up dolls are made for people that don't have a chance with a real girl, so it's there to help satisfy the sexual desires. I am not sure if Doona Bae was the right actress for this role playing the live blow up doll, but she did a fine job playing all naive and innocent. This is one of those movies where you have to just go with the premise of the movie, although some of the character reactions just doesn't make sense or awkward at times, your just gonna have to go with the flow of how the characters react to a live blow up doll. Although this has some bright elements to it, most of it is pretty depressing while showing life in general in a realistic way and the loss of innocence. I don't know how many japs use blow up dolls as substitutes although I heard that a lot of them uses it. This movie did a decent job of portraying the sad parts of society. All in all it's pretty good fantasy film that reflects on some societies and some people in general. There is also a lot of erotic scenes in this.7.5/10

russian29 Air Doll is a rather sad and delicate story about the loss of innocence, urban alienation, loneliness, and what it means to be human. The film touches upon a theme of men treating women as mere sex objects, but it is in no way related to prostitution.The film is intended for mature audiences who can appreciate the issues raised by the director. Fans of Bae Doo-na will find a lot to like here, as the actress has done an admirable job portraying a sex doll come to life. She is in almost every frame, often in her birthday suit.A cast of supporting characters is introduced, but their stories only briefly touch the main plot line, and we do not get to spend significant time with any of them. It works as a perfect illustration of fleeting encounters with strangers in a big city.