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Apple’s Sunny is a grief-stricken crime dramedy with a smile on its face
Animatronic puppets abound in Apple and A24’s new murder mystery.
Even with her overbearing mother-in-law Noriko (Judy Ongg) constantly at her door, and everyone being connected by their Devices — pillow-like smart gadgets that feel inspired by It Follows ’ shell phone — Suzie’s loss leaves her spiraling into a profound loneliness. But as painful as it is living in a house full of memories, what unnerves Suzie most is the unexpected arrival of a domestic homecare robot called Sunny (Joanna Sotomura), who insists that Masa programmed her specifically for the mourning widow before the crash. In place of the book’s allusions to tensions with North Korea, Sunny puts more emphasis on yakuza boss Hime (You) and the shadowy community of people illegally jailbreaking homebots to perform functions they’re not technically supposed to be able to do.
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