The Gift
The Gift
| 08 April 2010 (USA)
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In a dystopian Russia, a messenger delivers a gift to an old man.

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samboran

When speaking of unicorns, we first imagine a legendary creature like horse with single large horn projecting from its forehead. In this film, "a unicorn" never shows itself. A gift box or something that is called unicorn is regarded as important. When I got what the "unicorn" means I also understood why the robot, who probably only knew what the unicorn is, ran away even though he sacrificed himself. Thinking of this things above, this film is very interesting and imaginative. But at the same time there are a few mysterious points. And the most important point, the identity of the "unicorn", was hard to catch for me. So I didn't like it very much.

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f-27753

This is the very unique and perhaps mysterious film. There is a box which has a unicorn inside, and the box is carried by people one after another. Yet, once they touch the box, they are involved in some accidents and finally lose their lives. You shouldn't miss the ending, which reveals what the box means. The most astonishing things about the film is the fact that the story develops in a very thrilling and exciting way. Usually, the unicorn, which is the key word in this film, reminds you of the fancy stories with the pretty unicorn. In this film, however, the unicorn is an invisible object which forces you to consult your imagination, and furthermore, the story full of action and bloody scene doesn't provide you with the nice drama that makes you feel good. Thus this film tears apart your stereotype toward the word, unicorn. To sum up, it is a remarkably irregular story with unicorn, but its uniqueness makes the story possible to distinguish from any other stories.

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Wisty

A man is on a train and carrying a wrapped present. He goes forward and finds masked robots. And he goes forward more, a robot animal comes to him. After he gets on a long escalator, he comes up on the ground. There are many robots and they look as if they rules everything. A man enters a house and gives an old man the present. However it is the factor of tragedy.First of all, I was surprised by the visual beauty. The image is so clear and I feel I'm there. Also it was shot at a real place, the Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennogo and audiences may think it will happen in the future.The first time I saw this film, I couldn't understand the very meaning. What's unicorn? What's the box? However I can understand it completely.

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alpaca25

This is an exciting and thrilling Science Fiction movie.The location is maybe Russia, but Ido not know when it is.It seems to be the far distant future.In the movie, the technology has developed and humans and robots live together.The robots seems to have human- mind.One robot serves a man. The strange gift for his owner from a guest is the key thing of this movie.The gift seems to have special power.The characters in the movie try to get this special gift,but the same things happen to everyone who gets this box.Is this coincidence?The answer to this question is not known to anyone, and I cannot tell what happens to them.In the last scene,a young boy finds the gift.I think that everyone watching this movie want to tell him not to pick up the box.It is thrilling and exciting movie and also this movie makes us how technologies are.

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