Forgetting Space
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"The weather is pretty good. Let's have a cup of tea and chat together."
Xiaoyu lives an empty life alone. After an incident, she wakes up in a hospital and has a "I see dead people" moment. Some ghosts approach her and extort her to help them fulfil their wishes.
The first thing that came to mind was the similarities and borrowed ideas from The Sixth Sense. A certain unexplained little detail cannot even be understood without watching The Sixth Sense. But Forgetting Space has a completely different plot, and turned out to be a comedy rather than horror.
Another movie that came to mind that was Amélie (of Montmartre). Amélie also was a lonely girl doing missions, and the low profile humor has a similar feel.
The actress who played Xiaoyu mostly retained a deadpan face, but would sometimes change into comical expressions. The ghosts didn't talk much and seemed weird at first, but became very likable after closer acquaintance.
But the funniest actor was probably the psychiatrist, who looked fully perplexed when asking about Xiaoyu's invisible friends.
Overall the acting is not realistic but performed in a comical mode, though calmly and without outbursts.
There are not many special effects, but the production quality seems high, with good editing, timing, and fitting music.
The setting is deceptively clean, simple, and cheap, but is probably not random but carefully composed with certain colours reappearing in various scenes. Creating a uniform, specific art style. Almost any screenshot looks like a painting (not necessarily beautiful) with large coloured or white areas, and can be recognized as belonging to the same movie.
Although not much stands out, everything flows smoothly and most every scene is heartwarming, mildly funny, and infinitely rewatchable.
The first thing that came to mind was the similarities and borrowed ideas from The Sixth Sense. A certain unexplained little detail cannot even be understood without watching The Sixth Sense. But Forgetting Space has a completely different plot, and turned out to be a comedy rather than horror.
Another movie that came to mind that was Amélie (of Montmartre). Amélie also was a lonely girl doing missions, and the low profile humor has a similar feel.
The actress who played Xiaoyu mostly retained a deadpan face, but would sometimes change into comical expressions. The ghosts didn't talk much and seemed weird at first, but became very likable after closer acquaintance.
But the funniest actor was probably the psychiatrist, who looked fully perplexed when asking about Xiaoyu's invisible friends.
Overall the acting is not realistic but performed in a comical mode, though calmly and without outbursts.
There are not many special effects, but the production quality seems high, with good editing, timing, and fitting music.
The setting is deceptively clean, simple, and cheap, but is probably not random but carefully composed with certain colours reappearing in various scenes. Creating a uniform, specific art style. Almost any screenshot looks like a painting (not necessarily beautiful) with large coloured or white areas, and can be recognized as belonging to the same movie.
Although not much stands out, everything flows smoothly and most every scene is heartwarming, mildly funny, and infinitely rewatchable.
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- frostbow
- Jun 14, 2023
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- 遗忘空间
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- $16,919
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