Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
honestly not a good movie. i guess it’s creative but the humour definitely fell flat for me and so much of the movie doesn’t make sense in its own world. the recurring death is an interesting concept but i felt it wasn’t explored well at all. essentially all of the exposition was from narration which is lazy story telling. found myself checking my watch at the cinema.
some of the action scenes were drawn out, however, an overall enjoyable movie. i do like the non-chronological telling of a story that tarantino uses in this film simply as it builds interest. costumes and sets are pretty dope. uma thurman has a cool vibe.
read Janet Maslina’s review and agreed with her glass half full take: “a wake-up call to the modern world" about the nature of present-day youth in urban life. She added it is also "an extremely difficult film to sit through, with an emphasis on societal disintegration and adolescent selfishness at its most sordid.”
definitely a thought-provoking film. i guess by producing a film like this Clark looks to scare us into acting against the forces that cause children to be…