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I don't get it

posted 8 years ago by huwdj
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I have no idea what they were trying to do with this film. To me it feels like a deliberate attempt to produce a bad film by having everyone grotesquely over act in different styles at different times. It got to the point where I was getting annoyed at what I saw as an attempt to subvert the medium. In fact you could describe it as a high energy physics experiment where the cast is accelerated towards a central point in the hope there will be some kind of interaction - as such I believe it failed. There was strong imagery and perhaps moments where individuals impressed but at the end of the film I just didn't get it and I don't think anyone else in the cinema did - actually I witnessed some of the quickest exits ever as people fled the scene. As a total sucker I sat to the end of the credits hoping for a reveal of some kind - it was not forthcoming.

[–] SherlockVonEinstein 7 years ago

You know how some filmmakers, like Wes Anderson for example, make everything deadpan and flat? Zulawski was just the opposite. His films are like a hyper-reality. It's just his style. Everything is melodramatic and his characters speak in riddles, poems, and allusions.

[–] huwdj 7 years ago

I've not see a Zulawski film before and given my response to this one probably never will again. It's actually difficult to comment on this film without sounding like I'm mocking people who do enjoy this style (I'm thinking Woody Allan dinner party where everyone is very intense about the meaning of particular gestures and emphasis and what it really really means). So I think I'll just shut up and wander off muttering 'to each his own '.