What a load of crap! I remember seeing this a couple years ago, right after moving to Vienna, and kind of enjoying it. Was I so much naiver back then that this crappy dialogue sounded deep to me? Or maybe was I just enjoying seeing for the first time a city that I lived in in a movie? Or maybe I was just single and impressionable?
Anyway, this movie does something right; the direction is pretty great, I liked the…
In isolation most scenes are pretty cool and thought provoking, with nice dialogue. I can't say that I got the point exactly though (yet?), but it managed to move me. Especially the final reveal somehow touched me for reasons I cannot fully decipher. Maybe it's a bit boring in the middle section, but I do not regret watching it, for sure.
Jude Law has a slappable face and his character is an insufferable loser; I was genuinely happy every time…
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I liked this movie!
The "borgesque" interplay between reality, fiction and media was pretty cool, although it lost traction at the n-th "that was NOT actually reality... or... was it?" iteration, and I got a bit tired.
The movie is quite stylish, with good animation and music, and the quirky idol aesthetic plays nicely with the dark themes. It's an excellent thriller but also touches en passant on important themes, such as women's agency and freedom, the reality of stardom,…
I just did not like it. I wish I did because I had so much anticipation, but I just did not. This is not to say that the movie has nothing going for it, but not my cup of tea.
My biggest gripe with this is that it is not a brave film. The film does not have the guts to bet on its audience's intelligence. Instead, it takes everything abstract and implied in the other movies (and to a…
