Homunculus (2021)

I enjoyed this movie, it was definitely different to say the least. I never got why everyone kept drilling into each others brain. But I did enjoy the story. It felt a bit drawn out at times I wish it could have been faster. I recommend seeing it and passing your own judgement. Cannot wait to see Ito in another movie, I loved his character the most. Even crazy he was still very much on the attractive side.

Fmovies: Horrible movie! The whole movie is pretty dull and trying to force acting some comic book plots which turned out to be quite bizarre and awkward.

It's full of cliché and misogynist plot. The main character practically raped a teenage girl but portrayed in the movie as practicing a kind of exorcism on the demon in her mind.... straight-up chauvinist, twisted heroism! Seriously, WTF.

Got tricked by the trailer with cool CGI thought we would see different kinds of peculiar spirits (the homunculus), turned out the trailer already showed everything. It's more like a shallow, twisted self-searching journey. Regret watching it.

I was very excited upon hearing about the adaptation from Netflix, but after finishing the whole movie, I felt as if there was no point in watching it at all.

Although the movie was rather slowly paced in the first hour, there was barely anything that makes you care about any of the characters. Themes and plot points that are supposed to be deeply thought about are forgotten minutes later. The movie picks up a little after the halfway mark, but sadly, the little plot is unable to do much for the rest of the film and the ending is unsatisfactory in the bad way.

Overall, it just feels static. It was capable of doing something interesting, especially given the tone of its origin, so why was the end result so uninteresting? Please use the almost 2-hour runtime to read the manga instead. I'm begging you.

Homunculus fmovies. Most people specially the western liberals will have a difficult time digesting this. What the Japanese creative wants from his audience is that they throw their own morality into the dustbin before they immerse themselves into the world that has been created by the Japanese creative. This is easier said than done. Most of the time it is practically impossible for a person to do, because the boundaries that we have prescribed to our imagination are too narrow. Even the grey area that we leave outside our limits, is wildly insufficient to digest Japanese creative works. Gantz, Berserk etc are some of the building blocks of imaginative width that people need to be exposed to before they appreciate this work for what it is. Today the world is more composed of ideas than it is of tangible materials. Yet, I find that there is not enough stress laid on expanding imagination. Clearly the Japanese are not limited by this handicap.

Warning: this is not the cortical homunculus with big hand and lip.

A new Japanese movie on Netflix that adapted from the manga with the same name. A homeless amnesiac got his forehead drilled, which allowed him to use his brain more and see into people's inner trauma.

I didn't know about the manga, so the review is based solely on what I saw. The first half was very interesting, as the main character explored his newly discovered ability. That one scene with the high school girl was so weird and mind-boggling. This first half got me invested to see how far the main character would take his ability.

The second half made a sudden change in tone, and became mystery and drama. I had major issue with this story because things did not have explanations, the buildup did not address the character's background, and the story itself didn't even make that much sense. This second half might improve a little bit of there was more impactful background music. Honestly the second half story wasn't that intriguing.

Also, the premise that if one drills a hole into the brain, and somehow this makes more space for the brain to be used more, was just stupid. This reminded my of Lucy, a movie with Scarlett Johansson where the main character got injected some weird blue stuff and was able to use more than 10% of her brain. At least that makes more sense than the premise of this movie. And the 10% brain usage is a stupid myth.

Overall, an interesting story about guilt and trauma, but the second half became convoluted and messy. 5/10.

This just his Netflix and I turned it in expecting to read the English subtitles, but it was dubbed in English. Very interesting movie, kept my attention well throughout, except for 1 brief moment where the storyline slowed down, but it didn't last long. Good ending, I really hate when movies end without wrapping things up- but they did nicely- but quite unpredictable.

Definitely worth watching! 👀