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AWFUL

posted 15 years ago by trobert1
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This movie is terrible. It tries so hard to be an indy film that it goes way too far. This growing popularity of ending movies with unresolved issues is getting to be a bit much. I understand that the style of indy films is to make the audience form their own theories and opinions, but this movie didn't tell us anything at all. I mean they let four or five important plot points become non issues. Like how he was responsible for his wives death? Or why he for some reason just can't sing anymore and has to resolve to running a push cart. Not to mention just pretty much dropping the love interest completely out of the film with no follow up or clue to what might have happened between the two. I understand leaving the cart unresolved because it is a metaphor for his life I guess and the emptiness he feels. But come on it was like the director and writer just got lazy and didn't want to put the time in to tie up ANY loose ends. And not to mention the acting. The best actor in the entire film was girl. Amhid is a terrible terrible terrible terrible actor, has absolutely no talent and can't for the life of him portray emotion in any sense. Everything he did was just completely cliche, to him putting his head down everytime ANYTHING about music is mentioned, to the completely unemotional quitting of the job at the end. Just awful

Five out of ten at best

[–] Sarah-Gorr 14 years ago

Actually Bahrani has addressed your complaints himself pretty directly in a talk he gave regarding his follow-up, Chop Shop. He said that his goal is to create films that are more like life than most. And he says while he understands some people's frustration with his endings, life doesn't end like that so why should his films? He said that life doesn't have all it's loose ends tied up and all its problems resolved and that's the notion he's experimenting with.

I think it's unfair to say that's he's just lazy and wasn't trying.

It's okay not to like it (as, overall, I think the film can be fairly unlikeable for most because it is so different), but that doesn't make it bad.

I think it actually had a lot to offer. It explored notions of human kindness and the fleeting relationships we form with those around us.

I get why you don't like it, but I can't help but disagree.

[–] katalist420 14 years ago

The movie is not aweful, its a very well made movie.

[–] William_Hunt 14 years ago

Indeed, it is without a doubt one of the best film from the US that I've seen in my life; a gem

[–] trobert1 14 years ago

Well I do understand leaving some things unresolved and allow the audience to formulate there own conclusions. But you must admit he should have tied at least some of it together. I mean it's very intriguing to see a man who was an international singer, reduced to pushing a cart. But please give me a little incite on how it happened, his situation its very unlikely. And it takes away from the movie because it feels like it's not believable. I understand that this style is celebrated and a lot of people enjoy it and I'm not telling you you shouldn't. But I just feel like anyone could easily write this screenplay. And I hate to say it but it just seems like it's thrown together and not well thought out, and I'll end with that.
But no one here can honestly say that Ahmad is good in this film, which goes without saying considering he hasn't really landed to many roles in his career.

[–] haboba1-1 13 years ago

>>I mean it's very intriguing to see a man who was an international singer, reduced to pushing a cart. But please give me a little incite on how it happened, his situation its very unlikely.<<

He wasn't an "international singer;" he was a Pakistani singer - famous in Pakistan, but not in the US. I would wager that most well-known singers and film stars in Pakistan or many other countries are completely unknown in this country. Many immigrant workers may well have had professional jobs, with advanced degrees in their countries, only to come to the US and be forced to take menial jobs. It's not at all unusual.

[–] trobert1 13 years ago

Just because you're not well known singer in the U.S doesn't mean you're not an international singer? Why would you give that up to come to the U.S to push a cart? It's ridiculous, I recently watched this movie again with an open mind as a friend of mine was reviewing for a film class. It's even worse the second time around, all this *beep* forced emotion with no explanation and a just a lazily written script, so bad. Terrible terrible acting, I'm so sick of the Indy movie scene. 1 out of every twenty I see ends up being worth watching, the rest are just b.s art projects by uneducated film makers...