Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Venus Attack Visually one of the most outstanding films I've ever seen is the Japanese film 'Dolls'. My top favourite for last year's Intl Film Fest, this film says so much with just colours and its stunning cinematography. The film basically contains 3 different stories and it started with an arranged wedding. The groom ran away from it and visited his ex-girlfriend in the asylum who went mad when he was forced to marry into a rich family.There wasn't much dialogue between the 2 characters as they embarked on the most bizarre journey, with the female lead always in a daze that the male lead had to tie a red string on her hand to keep her from wandering off. 6 They walked thru spring, summer, autumn and winter all the while intersected with 2 other side stories. One is about a woman who waited for her lover since teenage years till she's about 40+, preparing bento lunch for him everyday and waiting for him at the park. He finally came one day but ….sigh….The next story is about a popular singer and her number 1 fan, the pretty girl got disfigured one day and her fan, in order to meet her, decided to blind himself with his last vision of her poster. Pretty strong love huh….We've reached winter and that's when the female lead finally remembers the guy and the scene was so heartwarming. She just cried and u can just feel their love after going through so much. Seasons transit in such way that they walk from red leaves to snow ground in a step, very beautifully done and the colour motif is splendid from bright red to pure white.**Magical Journey**

Lisa Falour I am pleased to rate this a ten out of ten! I do not go for "odd" movies much but this one is different. There are several story plots and you have to sit patiently and watch them play out. The theme is relationships and love. The colors are beautiful, it is well acted, and the music is gorgeous. I did cry a lot though. If you don't want to get out your handkerchief, then don't see this one. It would be good to see this movie with a lover. If you are lonely and don't have a lover, this might cheer you up, because it shows how relationships can be sad, negative and even fatal things. I am perhaps swept up in the emotion of just seeing this film, but really, I think it deserves a "ten."

beatnick49 I saw this movie late last night and while I saw only one hour of it, I liked it very much. It is a great film.There is a lot of silence in the movie but it works. In the tradition of the French film, Friday Night, it is a movie without dialogue that delivers.On top of that it is just a nice movie in terms of nature and visuals. It is story of love, no violence, profanities, heroics, or sex or clichés. The photography is wonderful, that scene of the couple walking through the snow beneath the lamp really stuck with me. Our subjects are in fact tragic heroes, giving it a degree of realism. Two of the stories end in tragedy, while the third is bitter sweet. It should also be said that though the characters do not say much they are largely sympathetic. They just want to stay with or be with the ones they love.I might also add that the women in this film are just so pretty and petite.Can't say much but this is great good movie.9 out of 10. Nice work Kitano and cast.

Michael Storer Just saw Dolls on Television. I am a great Kitano fan.I disagree with many of the other people who have written here, but deeply appreciate their views too - almost everyone has said something deep and beautiful - and that is the purpose of this film (perhaps) to let us see the beauty of what is around us in both human and environmental terms.To me this film strips away the conventional outward focus of what we all take to be the nature of relationships.We all focus on specific times as being joyful or sad, we remember the arguments, the holidays, the parties, the waking up together, the partings and the rejoinings. The other side is how other people stand outside and judge us - imprint THEIR view of what our relationship looks like to them. And we stand outside and judge their relationships for what we take to be the "facts""Good relationships" and Bad relationships".But what is the nature of that bond - what is its real form. To do this you have to strip away all the inessentials - strip the actions and the words - look at the shining light that a relationship is made of.That's why I differ in thinking that all the relationships in the film have not failed = they are intact and perfect - they don't exist in time and space - they ignore the space that self help books trade.What really ties us together? The two at the end are together eternally - just like the puppets at the beginning - eternally ready to play out the nature of their relationship. Myth and metaphor are things that bite well beyond the surface of things.And cut to the truth.