A film that falls into a my personal category of “More interesting and fun to think about than it is to watch”.
So interesting - there were moments when I thought the dialogue was trying way too hard, and tragically fell flat. Relatedly, when this movie tried to be fun, I found it to be dry and boring.
Performances were masterclass, all around.
Awesome color scheme.
Incredible score.
Loved the cinematography.
I found its themes to be very intriguing, and…
“I have electric dreams
Where my dad, when he can’t fix something
Smashes it on the ground
He gets angry, shouts, calls names
We scream our love for each other, sometimes with blows
That’s what we are
A pack of wild animals with dreams of humanity
Sometimes one needs several lives to comprehend this
The rage that turns through us doesn’t belong to us”
Had some time to reflect on this, and wanted to revise my review:
I unfortunately have nothing positive to say about my experience of this movie, and it’s the first movie in a long time that I had the impulse to turn off halfway through. The structure of storytelling, frequent cuts from past to present, the invasive and overwhelming presence of the score (the tone of the score didn’t seem to fit altogether), all led to a feeling, for me,…
