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Was there even a point in this film?

posted 12 years ago by lumosnight
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All this film was consisted of were arguments and arguments between petty people. Most of us have more serious things to handle in life and in this movie we are insulted by a lot of shouting about some stupid little things. You don't connect with any of the characters at all.
There was a lot of pretentiousness in the film, such as when the guy who was deemed insane wisely proclaims how intelligent April is and then he too starts ranting over useless things.

And as if the writers did not know how to end it, they just kill off April. The end.

I was dragged into cinema to watch this film (when I wanted to see Slumdog Millionaire at the time) and I felt that I was in the middle of a two hour argument between two stupid people. Honestly how can anyone sympathise with these characters is beyond understanding.

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] reichen4eva (251) 4 years ago

It was pretty boring although the third part of the movie got better just after April's affair with Shep. But yeah pretty much all the main characters are unlikable.

[–] bond998 (1206) a year ago

Well it was directed by Sam Mendes, The Master of Pretentiousness.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) a year ago

I thought this was a far superior film to the frankly contrived and overly-cute Slumdog Millionaire (which was basically a two-dimensional Dickens parable within a quiz-show format). *THIS* film, based on Richard Yates' superb novel, was about *real* people, who dreamed of bigger things, and were instead trapped in a life of conventionality, mediocrity and relative drudgery. The fact that DiCaprio and Winslet were the leads, made the film, if anything, more powerful, because we were seeing the potential promise of the thwarted Titanic lovers zapped away before our eyes. If Titanic was the romance, *this* was the reality; two people who really believed they were special snowflakes, realising that perhaps they and the people around them, had over-hyped their own specialness, and that they were no better nor worse than millions of other Americans.

[–] GolfnGuitars (2418) a year ago

It's definitely a depressing movie...I haven't seen it in years, but I thought this film made a person think. I'd like to watch this again...my marriage hit a really rough patch around 5 years ago, so I think I'd relate to this movie more now than when I watched it. I've never read the novel that this was based on, so I can't compare the two.