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Wow!

posted 7 years ago by VartanD
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I was watching this tonight and, get this, I mysteriously fell ASLEEP! I think it might have been something spiritual. Maybe aliens. I had a dream about Zooey Deschanel running around naked in a forest.

The dream was a 5. Not a big Zooey Deschanel fan but at least she can act and she's easy on the eyes. The movie was a 3. It needed some guns, a loud and pounding rock music track and some gratuitous nudity. Lots of gratuitous nudity.

Go back to college for another pointless two years, guys, have a few more pumpkin spice lattes and artisan beers or whatever and try again. Next time, cut it short on the "look how smart and sophisticated I am" and just try to tell a story. If you had focused more on the story and less on the pseudo-intellectual artsy crap, this could have been a good movie. A sonogram on a wall is "art"? Come on!

[–] lislynhar 7 years ago

Yeah, I mostly enjoyed this until the end. I don't need everything explained or tied up in a neat bow to enjoy a movie, but I do want to have a little better understanding of a)what is going on, plot wise or story wise and b) what I was supposed to get out of the movie. This one had the making to be a really decent independent, but I felt cheated at the end.

[–] alicewaters98 7 years ago

Zooey may have been in your dream but she wasn't in this movie. I'd also rather have seen your dream then to have watched this movie.

[–] The_Sisko_2970750 7 years ago

I love understated movies with actors I'm not familiar with, movies that flow at their own intended pace for reasons of their own design but hold my attention throughout, which do not resort to sledgehammers to pound preconceived messages home. This was a strange and beautiful movie for me -- the image of Helen peacefully finding her place on the snow was utterly haunting. I hope I find others like it, but they are few and far between. To each their own, though.

Milton

[–] El_Guapo_Caballo 7 years ago

I liked it as well, actually, perhaps I enjoyed it quite a lot more than I should have, since I didn't actually understand completely what was going on, but I suspect this was always the filmmakers intention, to convey a feeling of unease. Anyhoo, since you state you hope you find others like it, maybe check out this short list of films I find use the same understated and poetic approach to storytelling:

THE AURA
THE SWIMMER
OLD JOY
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA
LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD
THE PASSENGER(1975)
DIAMOND FLASH
AMERICAN JOB
THE MÚSIC OF CHANCE
LAMB

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[–] mfields-613-628208 7 years ago

I'm in that rare minority who actually enjoyed the film as well. And I'm a fan of ambiguous endings that actually make you reflect and think about the film. Love finding little indie gems.

[–] Lexiii67 7 years ago

I enjoyed it. It actually kept me looking at the screen instead of my iPad the entire time, which is rare lately.