Seriously... I wanted to stick a pencil in my eardrums just to blot out the noise.
I understand the point he was trying to make with the dialogue of this movie, but the "sound effects" made me want to kill myself...
Perhaps that was the point?
It went in and out for me. At first it was tolerable, then unbearable, and finally it just became amusing.
“I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.”
It was the moment where I got frustrated with the car honking that I realized that I would love this movie, just because it got to me so much but I couldn't turn away from it. It's the perfect example of a filmmaker entertaining while annoying a viewer. It also pays off at the end.
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Exactly! All well worth the payoff!
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I agree. Got me silent..
shareSome of my favorite movies are like this .... irritating, frustrating, chaotic and then all the sudden everything just congeals into its own logic.
shareI thought the honking took on the qualities of a piece of modernist music - like Cage or someone.
The horns are just a technical tool to continue the bickering that continues through most of the first half of the movie.
It also got me thinking about how none of these people seemed to be able to interact with each other, except in an angry way - just "get out of my way". No one cares about the cause of the traffic jam. Why build such a device into the cars? Anger as a consumerist commodity?
I also love the fact that we hear (and eventually see) a group of children singing as they are led along the side of the road. Its such a welcome sound after all the beeps. Are we seeing a subtle clue that there is another way to deal with all this?
It also got me thinking about how none of these people seemed to be able to interact with each other, except in an angry way