films for Apple TV+, presenting a relationship between humans and robots. However, the film doesn’t explore any different perspectives from other films. For example, The Terminator or Her investigated all human-robot relationship possibilities.
Sunny is a film about a Japanese widow. Her husband and child have gone missing in a strange plane crash. She is lonely. She receives a domestic robot, named Sunny, made by her husband's electronics company. The film is adapted from the book by Collin O’Sullivan, The Dark Manual. The book focuses on meditation and grieving. Everyday objects reflect the emotions that people project onto them. But, A24 and Apple came up with a new perspective. They made a film that concentrated on humanoid puppetry, and how the robots are portrayed as friends.
Suzie finds out that her husband is not a refrigerator technician. She starts looking for answers about him and his work. The film also has an engaging conspiracy. Big Tech underground coders, cults, and Yakuza gangsters are involved. Sunny is a film that makes you question the ambiguity of other people’s minds and the secret of perception. Even if Sunny is a CGI (computer-generated image) robot, her feelings are true or seem to be.
The new film uses CGI. But, the bond between the actress Rashida Jones (Suzie Sakamoto) and Joanna Sotomura (Sunny) is not as lively as it should be. Sotomura’s animated facial expressions were in real-time. The interaction between the characters made them create heavy characters. AI represents the center of this story. It’s about a woman who fears technology and is overwhelmed with grief.
What can make people watch the new film, Sunny, is the relationship between Suzie and Sunny. Suzie becomes grumpy and rude after the death of his husband and child. She treats Sunny badly most of the time in the first episodes. Sunny responds with kindness but is sometimes impertinent. The characters’ differences make the audience continue watching the film.
Sunny is not just about style. It’s not insubstantial. It is a film about grief and the bond between a robot and a human. Every scene is perfectly shot. Sunny’s emoji-like expressions are always appropriate They make the audience not notice differences between human and robot expressions.
The film illustrates the life of an American woman. She lives in Kyoto, Japan. It will premiere on 10 July on Apple TV+.
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