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Why are the sets so ugly...is there a reason?


Every room, hall or interior is just ghastly! The walls are either to wavy, to stripped, to geometric, to metallic, to woodsy, to flowery, to black, to red....just an overwhelming grotesque assault on one's sense of aesthetics!

Is there a purpose behind all the ugliness (some metaphor that escapes me perhaps)? Am I the only one that doesn't see one speck of beauty in any of the set design?

That being said, I do like the movie as a whole...if I stay focused on the actors & dialog and not look around the set that is



No offense intended...I've an opinion like everyone else

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Weird. I liked it

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I thought all the wall paper was just to make it weird/strange/quirky.

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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

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It was to distract you from the twist ending style plot. Upon rewatching, youll notice they used backgrounds that caught your attention whenever Slevin was with Lucy Liu, however when hes going after the boss and schlomo everything was very basic and flat

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I like the set design in this. It seemed deliberately tacky.

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