Visually magnificent, words that come to mind to describe Kogonada are rituality and aesthetic musicality, if it makes sense. A philosopher of tea, after this?
I felt an incomplete connection with the characters. Maybe it was too reflective to allow to create attachment and delve into them properly.
I think I loved Columbus more because of the exchanges of ideas, the dynamic between the characters which led to a mutual growth. Here it felt more one-sided: through Yang's eyes, a blossoming for Jake.
Still, beautiful and poetic
didn't know skinny, soft-spoken teashop-owner Colin Farrell was something I needed to watch until now
A decent contemplative film on what it means to be alive and to have lived. Beautifully shot and the future world is realized and hinted at in a great way. My main nitpick is you kind of get it within the first hour and the film keeps hitting the same themes again and again.
The dance scene in opening credits might be my favorite opening credit scene ever. The rest of the movie is pretty boring, especially Colin Farrell as Jake, even though the concept of an android used to assist in parenting would be cool if done right.
A contemplative and aesthetically pleasant film which went down well with me.
This starts amazing and funny however the dance intro credits scene has nothing to do with the rest of the tone of the movie. It goes nowhere and is very boring, yawn inducing nonsense. I watched this due to having 7.5 on imdb at the time, Colin Farrel and A.I. - it sounds like a great mix on paper.
By the end I was disappointed, this was not for me at all, I think it is meant for the more "arty" types and it reminded me of the "Birdman" film and how I felt after watching that. There is a boring disconnect between him and his wife, they adopted a chinese child and decided it would be a good idea to get an AI programmed to be of Chinese origin to really raise the child for them and teach her about where she came from. They seem to palm the child off on other people or each other while claiming too busy to raise her yet acknowleding it. It is quite sad overall.
Love how colin keeps leading me to those niche premises
Thematically very interesting but the sluggish pace undermines its power.
Don't read this until you've seen it...
I've seen the original, "Fahrenheit 451," at least half a dozen times; I wonder if I'll see this that many. I'd stack this right alongside that. I found it deeply moving, but then I've lost someone close and it's prolly natural to access our own grief when we see someone else who is struggling with their own.
I have two questions, and if I find their answers elsewhere I'll edit in down below:
1. What did Mika say to Yang in Mandarin when she visited his empty room?
2. Did it seem like he ran out of memory, but wasn't willing to sacrifice any of his old memories? And, did it seem that was the cause of his, "off state?"
I hope, if this future happens that we do better at acknowledging them as part of our family -- funerals are for the survivors, and grief should be allowed. However, as much as it bothers me in retrospect that clones and bots have such a diminished status in society, while watching it i was simply caught up in the beauty of the idea their adopted son had two or three seconds a day to record what was important to him...what would it be?
Edit, one month after watching:
This film continues to haunt me. Instead of thinking of how much more engaged the father has become, I continue to focus on Yang's POV. When he spotted the clone of the woman he'd previously known -- I think that must've been the closest he could've come to being happy. When he confided ("Can I be honest with you?") that he was okay if there was nothing afterwards, he was ready...he didn't look forward to, "dying," or whatever, but he'd come to understand his situation,knew what he meant to his charge, knew he was running out of storage space...could see the end was coming, and was at peace with it.
I'm reminded of the closing speech by Robert Redford at the end of, "A River Runs Through It," except Yang knows he'll be survived by a couple of People close to him.
In a not-so-distant future where Muji has taken over the world, a multiethnic family has to deal with the loss of their android babysitter. The film invites us to reflect on family, technology, and existence through fragments of daily life and bittersweet memories. Although the philosophical questions posed might be nothing new, it’s the approach that makes them relevant, as it’s rare to find sci-fi narrative themes combined with the warm and intimate setting of a family drama, within the walls of a house that seem to be lost between past, present, and future.
Although I confess that I teared up a little during the second half, the film is not built around an emotional climax, and might discourage some audiences due to its low-key meditative tone and tendency to rely on artsy cinematography over raw emotions.
Koganada does not disappoint and i cannot wait to see more of his works in the future;
the way each scene in After Yang is so carefully crafted, even the simplest of pillow shots have the most intricate details & effort put into them and excellent frame compositing,
the vfx, as subtle as they were, from the car rides to the memory flashbacks, absolutely stunning work, i especially ADORED the flashback VFX they did,
the musuem's set was very well designed, i really loved the usage of mirrors like in one of Kogonada's previous movies (one of my favorites of his and of all time), Columbus (2017); and when that Cello melody / OST starts playing in the background during the museum scene? absolute chills. // Ryuichi Sakamoto and Aska Matsumiya did some incredible work with the score;
Collin Farrel was amazing in this movie, and i'm starting to like the actor a lot since i've seen him in The Banshees of Inisherin and now After Yang;
one of my favorite shots has got to be that one towards the end of the movie, after that heartbreaking flashback scene of the Alpha memories that is accompanied by that sorrowful & melancholic piano in the background, absolutely beautiful, the shot had a sunset sun peaking through many tree branches, the shot was so well framed and stunning, oh GOD
the end has left me a bit confused and curious, the way they ended the movie in that Hold Frame style, as to indicate that it might have been another memory that was played through to the end and it just stopped, or could it be more? damn
Like a brain dildo for mental masturbation.
This sequel to Ex Machina was originally titled Ex Machine. Just kidding. But this movie about a dead android (techno-sapien) only went skin deep and its lack of a human touch meant the movie didn't really touch me.
I'm not embarrassed to say I didn't like this film that everyone else did, but I will say many people whose opinion I respect really loved After Yang so you should probably go listen to them instead. At least this time.
This is definitely a cool and interesting movie to watch. It’s definitely a very slow movie artsy mellow drama, with amazing cinematography. It’s also a new concept of AI and humans living together and co-existing.
Not my personal favorite from A24 or Colin Farrell. It is still quite good and a pretty unique family/sci-fi film. I could certainly see a large chuck of people loving this one, but for me I prefer others.
Rating: 3/5 - 7.5/10 - Worth Watching
Gave this garbage 35 minutes to actually see if it was going anywhere - waste of time.
very boring .not impressed there was nothing exciting about this movie . its extremely slow and I only watched it for Colin .
The credits with the dance, as in "Pachinko" (2022) seem a characteristic of the director, as does the exploration of memory, even if it comes from AI. There is a beautiful expressiveness in the representation of the database that contains emotions, which turns the memory bank into personal identity, the past as a reconstruction of the present. Kogonada is also sometimes lost in his contemplative gaze, languishing in emotions that become all too apparent in the latter part.
Considering I’m not the biggest fan of sci-fi, this is one of the more interesting films I’ve seen in the genre. It’s a tad bit too slow, and it did take me two turns to finish it, but its themes and hypotheses for the future are really fascinating and food for thought.
My favourite aspect of the film is maybe its conception of a post-racial world, cultural heritage and what it means to grow up in a family composed of people of a different race than yours. It’s not the film’s most futuristic theme, but its approach and “solution” to it, is. Otherwise, the themes of human (dis)connection, relationship with tech, and the humanising of tech are all very interesting and super pertinent.
Kogonada’s directing is marvellous and intentional. I especially liked the way he cinematically translates the process of “remembering”. Beautiful and poignant visuals throughout with a minimalistic score that compliments them perfectly.
A bunch of humans who grow attached to a materialistic item. The parents show regret for having let a “technosapian” look after their adopted child and reflect on what they missed, as a result of being poor parents.
Nothing to see here, move along. No more than 6/10. Soooo slowwwww! A tedious watch.
After Yang attempts to reach with one hand but sips its own tea with the other. There are moments of charm, but they lead only to boredom. Maybe Kogonada should sub in coffee.
Shout by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2022-03-07T08:17:38Z
Well, Peacemaker’s time of holding the the title of best opening credits dance sequence of the year turns out to be short lived.
This is like a great Black Mirror episode (the philosophical kind, not the dystopian kind).
I’d also highly recommend it if you’re a fan of Alex Garland (the visuals in this reminded me a lot of Devs).
We’ve seen this concept of humans and AI living together done before (Westworld, Blade Runner), but this is more focussed on family relationships and drama, which makes it very fresh.
The cinematography is out of this world, acting is top notch across the board, good score, interesting storytelling that goes in directions you don’t expect, thematically rich, tight editing, it’s really great stuff.
Just know what you’re getting into: it’s reflective and meant to give you food for thought, it’s not a pulpy thriller about AI taking over the world.
8.5/10