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.

I've seen the movie Dolls. It's from Japan and directed by Takeshi Kitano. This movie has three different stories about unrequited love. The first story is about a young man named Matsumoto; he's supposed to get married to his new girlfriend. Horrible news happened on his wedding day: his ex-girlfriend went insane after a drug overdose an was sent to a psychiatric ward. That made me feel upset when Matsumoto and Sawako took a walk on memory lane. Third segment was about Hiro, the Yakuza mob boss. His childhood wasn't unsure to reunite with his former lover Ryoko, the girl at the park. Finally, there was Haruna Yamaguchi; a pop star who confronts her past after a tragic accident left her face disfigured. Her number one fan named Nukui needed to help that desperate situation that ruined her career.See what I mean, all three stories were somewhat great but sad throughout the movie.

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.

***SPOILER*** Takeshi Kitano proves himself a multifaceted filmmaker with this tragicomic look at the debilitating power of love. While love is the one real tie that binds (in the case of the co-dependent couple here, quite literally- or metaphorically, depending on how one chooses to look at it), Kitano never loses sight of the fact that it's also a symbiotic sadness that permeates the soul. Ambrose Beirce, if memory serves, once referred to love as "a temporary madness." Moving moments are allowed to run their course on screen, to the often bitter end(s). (The finale lends new weight to the phrase "the old ball and chain." Though it leaves you hanging, it doesn't...) Another fine example of Neo-Asian art.