Visually uninteresting. The themes presented could be interesting, but the characters/actors are held back juuust as things start to get interesting. You can tell where scenes are going to go from a mile away, and the dynamic between the characters gets repetitive after some time. The score just blasts on cue and never does anything interesting. No idea how this got nominated for anything other than production design, which is quite good if only for the drab coloring the editors have done to it.
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