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Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kōjō, Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou, The Illusion Factory of Alice and Therese, Alice and Therese's Illusion Factory, 아리스와 테레스의 환상공장, Alice and Therese's Illusory Factory, 앨리스와 텔레스의 환상공장, Фабрика иллюзий Алисы и Терезы, Мабороси, توهم, سراب, 爱丽丝和特蕾丝的梦幻工厂, 마보로시, maboroshi:愛麗絲與特蕾絲的虛幻工廠, มาโบโรชิ, مابوروشي, maboroshi:爱丽丝和特蕾丝的梦幻工厂, Maboroši: Továrna na iluze, מאבורושי, माबोरोशी, Maboroshi – Az illúziók gyára, мабороші
While the animations was really good, the story felt very bland and wasn’t closing in on all the question mark it brought to the movie. This film felt like it could’ve been 30 to 40 minutes shorter and the results would’ve been the same.
Also, what are these layers of incest? Freud would love this
Another anime movie where the character got trapped in another world. And who could have thought that caught in the love triangle with your own daugher is a thing?!
it started out as a cautionary tale about over industrialization and the exploitation of natural resources, and then it devolved into bad science fiction rooted in an unexplainable love story following the sword art online blueprint of a teenage couple and their child that is not an infant but a grown kid??? i was not entertained
Took a long time to get to putting this review down as there’s a lot to take in with this film, but there’s one thing you can say about it without any doubt: this is the sort of singular work you’d expect from a creator like Mari Okada.
I’d want to look at the production cycle for this film but so much of the story and direction of this film feels not just defined by Okada’s own openly-complicated views on family and love that she’s tackled throughout her work, but on the shift in our understanding of the social contract in a post-COVID landscape. This is a film set during the time of Okada’s own childhood and definitely reflects those…
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