Enviable pacing for a three hour epic that feels so big, not in scale but in stakes. Personal stakes that change and deepen the characters from inside and outside. Second viewing and I felt like I was watching it for the first time, nothing changed in my enjoyment of pure, adult entertainment, which is scarce these days.
There is the fascinating side of revenge that we all love to watch, and to be a part of the thrills of making…
Absolutely delighted by this. Fantastic way of turning something seemingly cliched by genre into what it actually is. And made me think about the rewatchability of these kinds of movies—like, what would make me go back and rewatch something like this but the clever ways of setting up scenes and the way characters react to it all? It might be missing a little of that, some rounder character arcs, and definitely some more polished directing (imagine this in the hands of M. Night himself!) But I am all in on more ideas like these seeing the light of day! More, please!
Movie narration and storytelling can be artful and feel meaningful if done with care, and some seemed to have forgotten this in favor of a formula.
And then, dry humor comes along, to show some low aspects of humanity and how only sometimes there’s an chance to feel actual happiness. BUT THEN, comedy becomes an emotional gut punch on how lives are lead or how someone copes with a major life event and it all blends beautifully.
Really surprised on…
Has some good punchlines and nasty humor, but I wish the actors were delivering the lines with a little more physical comedy. Everyone here just stands there, stiff and motionless at all times. Felt like only Vivian Bang was committed to some more physical comedy and performance.
Embarrassing stuff. Characters get lost, spins the same ideas over and over again, camera never knows where to look, there’s no acting, the mother character is paper thin (like, the most shallow character I’ve seen,) etc. Thinks its very clever in the end, when it only gave a bunch of really repetitive sequences, where almost every single scene leads nowhere. Just from a storytelling standpoint (not theme-wise,) this is truly bad, I was so disappointed.
They’re saying it’s “So rich, so dense, so complex, so puzzling, so philosophical, so psychological, demands multiple viewings.” Lol, it’s not.
