Best film I've ever seen.
I don’t mean to come off arrogant with such a title as who really cares what ‘one’ person thinks of any given movie. But after reviewing over 5,000 films, I am not one to casually declare such lofty praise to every great recent film I’ve seen. In fact, I’ve maintained with steadfast conviction that The Godfather would always be my favorite film, and that had not changed over the span of reviewing my first film on this site until now.
What’s more, the first 30-40 minutes of this film had me thinking it was one of the worst films I would see. And the movie didn’t really change course after that, but rather, the claws that it slowly and continually sunk into my psyche would change my perception of what I was fortunate enough to be experiencing.
I won’t go on and on about every seen, or any scene for that matter. I’ll just say that I never thought one film could be so insightful and so successfully capture the human condition. It so perceptively articulated the mindset of human beings and their longings, insecurities, boredoms, regrets, sentimentalities, curiosities, disappointments, jealousies, aspirations, and just about every other intense thought and emotions of our daily lives.
The mood and atmosphere of the movie was very artistic and beyond eloquent. Furthermore, I thought this film was visually stunning and the score was equally ‘beautiful’.