Here is this initial setup for the movie:
- Kurumi struggles with the loss of her boyfriend, Hal, and shuts herself off from the world. She remains a recluse until an android is made to look like Hal and sent to help her cope.
From this point the audience is treated to an even paced "slice of life" which slowly pulls you in to where you buy into the plot devices completely.
Hal maintains the premise through most of the movie. There are the odd moments however when Hal is it would appear, reintroduced to childhood friends who are completely nonpluses when Hal doesn't recall them at all. Now this would at first blush be expected, however it is the friends reaction that begins to be telling. Not all is as it seems. That mixed with an ofttimes melancholy and often tearful happiness.
The ending moments are hardly a given. I was privy to the concluding moments and still found myself asking why such and such a development happened.
The film at times is cute, other times heart breathtakingly sad and through it all is woven a thread of mystery.
I would give the movie a solid 8, I would take off some for what appears to be deliberate confusion
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