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People who don't like this movie have no heart.

It is all about the absurdity in a common life that we all are submerged to live. And it is so neatly put by the named three authors. Querying the big myth of success (that only feeds you the feeling of being a looser [and makes you try harder] meanwhile others are profiting from your attempts), the characters in this movie have a different motivation than feeding the film industries feedback circles that are working like Pavlovs bell on the dog, causing it to saliber ...
It is all about the the perspective that converts reality, what really happens into success or failure.

All the sweetness happens in between, barley noticed (in this movie and in real life). Like the amputated man who is about to learn how to swim [this alone I find a priceless image]; or the one who smiles back to you while passing the sidewalk ...

I really whish that people were more open, not calling everything that is a little bit off theirs course as something stupid/boring/unworthy.

Why don't you try a little bit harder to understand why someone has made a movie that obviously is not going to be am office hit? What could be their motives? What could these movies give to your perception of what is life.
If you have no ideas whatsoever that okay; no problem; go for the stuff you like (you not what you can rely on, not? when the formulas are fully filled).

And I find also that PSH with the rastafarien hairdo is priceless, a real Bob Marley fanboy ...

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great review with some quality insights!



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