2013 · sci-fi · drama · romance
Real
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa2h 7m2013
Neurosurgeon Koichi uses an experimental technique to enter the brain of his beloved Atsumi, who is in a coma after attempting suicide. In his quest, Koichi drifts steadily further into the sweltering marshes of the spirit. It is soon no longer clear what is real and what is not.
Our read: Real (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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