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| The Congress (2013) Korean Poster |
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This is a wonderful movie. After some lazy introduction, the most beautiful and fantastic animated pictures of dream world fascinated my eyes. Really great job by Ari Folman. The idea that digitaly scanned or created charaters take place of real human is not a new one. What matters is that how we, the viewers, are goinng to influenced and changed by that technology. Ari Folman expressed the emptiness and hollowness of the people caused by the desire using technology in a wrong way. Not satisfied with watching and manipulating scanned actor/actress, people are going to take more intense pleasure by being the characters themselves, even losing their own personality. It is an irony that in this insane and distorted dream world, the only sane human is Robin herself, because she is still living in the real world, even the real world is painful life-time burden for her. As the Buddhism teaches us, we can get to the real pleasure not by denying ourselves, but by appreciating ourselves as we are.
