I think this is by some definitions a good movie, it is well made, has clearly had a lot of heart and soul put into it visually and in terms of worldbuilding, but I think the characters and the story detract the entire runtime of the film.
The Robot is the epitome of innocence always smiling and wanting to make Dog and others happy. For 80% of the movie it is mentally tortured through events it control control or escape from, and all the while Dog is shown just living his life, and it is the most frustrating sequence I have watched in a long time.
I want to give this movie a 3 based solely on what I've described in the story and the awful character that is "Dog" a self pitying piece of garbage who is a waste of runtime as even in the ending of the film there is no payoff for watching his terrible life unfolding. He just gets another robot and he's so disgustingly void of person that he simply stops caring about the one he abandoned.
The second half of the movie, about after the 1 hour mark is much better to sit through then the first, but by that point I was already so frustrated watching this film I didn't even want to finish it. Do I regret watching, no, but I think this movie is a punch in the gut cryfest and not something with intrinsic value.
The Robot is the epitome of innocence always smiling and wanting to make Dog and others happy. For 80% of the movie it is mentally tortured through events it control control or escape from, and all the while Dog is shown just living his life, and it is the most frustrating sequence I have watched in a long time.
I want to give this movie a 3 based solely on what I've described in the story and the awful character that is "Dog" a self pitying piece of garbage who is a waste of runtime as even in the ending of the film there is no payoff for watching his terrible life unfolding. He just gets another robot and he's so disgustingly void of person that he simply stops caring about the one he abandoned.
The second half of the movie, about after the 1 hour mark is much better to sit through then the first, but by that point I was already so frustrated watching this film I didn't even want to finish it. Do I regret watching, no, but I think this movie is a punch in the gut cryfest and not something with intrinsic value.