Anya Anya

It's a game of appearance and falseness. It throws a lot of fake elements into the action just to reveal to us that we live in a world of illusion: fake love (Candy is selling it), fake body cream, fake woman (the supermarket owner disguised in this way), fake cat (Doraemon), the object of illusion (the picture on the wall that may as well represent two friends instead of a couple), fake name (Marine Chan). Even the beginning itself looks like offering an illusion: I wonder what viewers think of when they hear something ringing near a bed and see Ikuta lying on it; I, for one, thought of an alarming clock; then we see the room phone, but it wasn't even this that was ringing; it was his mobile; then we see the clock on the wall and the hour: 6.00 I wonder how many of us associated it with the ringing and thought that it was 6 am; I did; in reality, it was 6 pm, but "pm"is written in tiny letters so that it lead us to fake track and make us enter this game of of surprises. Towards the end of the film we have a remarakble dialogue between Rui and Amida: "Will you take me to Cat Parade?"- "I'll take you to Doraemon Parade." Which shows us he's not in the least better than her former boy friend, who was going to offer her the same FAKE destination. (Doraemon is a toy cat, not a real one.) Even the two policemen get their hands hurt while trying to get some money that did not belong to them - the police itself stealing. The only two characters that seem to be willing to save themselves from falsity are Candy and her wanna-be boyfriend: "Do you want to run away with me?", she asks him, which seems achievable by the two, in a more or less near future. The song "Runaway" that the movie ends with, is a symbol of courage to escape into a better world, resizeable to your own principles.