What a trip!! Restored my faith in sci-fi?? So sweet and adventurous and funny it's actually surreal. No you can't eradicate pain, you learn how to live with it. Yes all them Freudian shit about mothers are true but it doesn't have to be some caricature demonic figure because by the end of the day they're real people too. Gertie the modern empathic H.A.L. the circuited womb. Matrix + Inception + 贝克街的亡灵Therapeutic af
The Ellie-Annie storyline makes me cry so hard. Partly because of the chemistry between the two sister-like actresses. Sonoya is so cool and beautiful. The psychology+sci-fi approach is a bit trite, but the emotional revelations of all characters' back stories and motivations are handled subtly.