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Oddball, deadpan comedy where not much happens and a nonsensical ending.


I think that about sums it up. This movie is dry, dry, dry as the Sahara desert. It's full of awkward situations and dialogue that often features miscommunication or people not listening to each other. Its format is laid out in intervals of 5 years (through which the main character never seems to age), forwarding in time only to show how things have changed, yet essentially stayed the same. There's not much else to say about it. I found the premise amusing for the first part of the movie, but it's a stretch at 75 minutes. And then a suitcase that grants youth at the end. What the fĂșck? Is that supposed to be a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life or something? What the hell is it trying to say?

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I think you described it very well. I found the dialogue amusing throughout the whole film so for that reason alone it kept my attention.

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strange little movie for sure.



When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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The movie shows reality in the miscommunication in daily activities, in addition to most people deliberately being dismissive in relationships.

I enjoyed the movie.

People don't change...we just get older

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It's not that nothing happened. A lot happened. It's just that the characters didn't care about much. I believe the term is "aloof"

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