A prioritisation of misery by deconstructing art
I jave seen You, the living as well and I completely felt sorry for these films. I do understand what they are trying to do and it has been done a lot of times before but a lot better and for a wider audience.
It's unfortunate that the directors and makers of this film feel that the aesthetics they used are the only way they could express the idea. It was grey and miserable and this was supposed to be comical. It was ok but not extremely ground breaking and important. A bunch of children in a school being told to make something miserable could just think "oh, right, erm... grey".
So for that reason the level of patronising is naively born if even attempted. So sad.
I do see people like this and think there is something special here but to be honest, there really isn't. It's like any inexperienced film, where everything is removed to give weight to saying "I have a cow", so the viewer will focus heavily on this "I have a cow" because it is framed and given priority.
In actuality, you can do this to any naive and over-expecting audience and over-expectation is born from the hunger of the desperate movie watcher who needs something to tell people "this is great, there is so much weight to this", but I am sure with a little thought and time the same movie goer could spend a couple of minutes a day to think a little more about existence.
That's all you need to do to contemplate existence and monotony.
Many people have already celebrated monotony in art. It's worth finding them. It's less time and more gloriously presented.
I'm not surprised a few awards ceremonies like this. Probably out of fear.
Not good at all. A shame that somebody and even viewers have haphazardly entered a point in their existence where this, is the only way of expressing, existence.
To be honest, this isn't even about existence. This is about reductionism of modern life. There is no point in this film, where there is any talk of existence, in this film or the other films. It's just a commentary on modern life and a lot about industry.
Existence? That's a different thing and nobody talks about it in his films.
That is being pretentious and a very sad and desperate attempt at it if anything.
The slaves entering the tank is a fascinating scene though and all in all that is absolutely great but... has nothing to do with the rest of the film.
It's also crazy how they had to express silence and doing nothing over and over again. He must have though the audience was stupid.