You can’t review this film. It’s like trying to describe breathing—how do you explain something that just is? How do you explain how you remember your phone number? You just do.
You sit there, and it sits with you. It gets under your skin and you don’t talk about it, you just feel it happening to you. You might want to say something about the acting, maybe about the writing, or perhaps the way the camera lingers on faces a little…
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This isn’t the kind of movie I thought I was ready for because it didn’t give me something to grip onto. It let me drift. Maybe you’ll wonder—like I did—if you’ll get bored. There’s no obvious tension in the film plot description on google. No strings pulling you along, no ticking clock to keep your heart beating faster. But recently I spoke in short time with someone who ended up giving me a simple utterance: “try it”. And that’s it,…
This movie definitely seals it with the realism I look for when entertaining the idea of looking for a piece of film to watch. Everywhere from the awkward form of conversation and the bare honesty of a teacher who cannot care to pass a student who does not show a willingness to pass. The effects of alcoholism and it’s slipping into normal day to day activities and even the simple lies about his father being a pilot when in reality,…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Before anything I should say that the cinematography of this film as well as the acting displayed is beyond amazing. The scene of Tyler escaping provided such a feeling of realism for a moment it seemed to be hyper-real; that is to say it felt more real than the real (reality) itself. With this said, I think the plot though developing slowly through realism begins to decline into optimistic fantasy. The manner in which Emily has this amazing moment of…
