Perhaps the most polished of the films I’ve seen thus far at SIFF, Fumihiko Sori’s Vexille is a great example of science fiction. In the future, Japan has withdrawn from the UN because of international law that they not make androids. Japan isolates itself with a complex security system called RACE that prevents any country in the world from spying and knowing what exactly has become of Japan.
As a child, I would pretend I was a woman fighter like the character Vexille. This movie gave me the opportunity to fantasize once again.
