Pretentious garbage


I loved The Lobster, but man, this one just fell flat on its face for me.

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Everybody talking like they are all aliens zoned out on antidepressants, which worked in The Lobster since that was an alternate bizarro world, but it makes zero sense for modern-day Cincinnati.

The first hour or so is slow, but interesting. I was still onboard because I presumed it was going somewhere good. Then about the middle, the turn comes, and the creepy kid lays out that all his family are going to die if he doesn't choose a sacrifice. Which was fine, I figured, he must have poisoned the son somehow.

But no, as it turns out, this is all just some supernatural or cosmic bullshit. Which zaps all of the drama out of the whole plot, it's too stupid and nonsensical. Yeah, this creepy kid's father dies sadly - so OF COURSE, there will be some supernatural karma happening, which this random kid is aware of, and to some degree in control of. It makes no sense. And on top of that stupidity, the doctor's family just GOES ALONG WITH THIS and buys in, 100%, because that makes sense, right? Oh sure, people would just believe this crap. To the point where the mom says "I think we have to kill our son, we can always make another one" as if any non-psychotic mother would ever say that. Horrible writing.

And then the ending, the son gets shot, like I'm supposed to still give a shit at that point, or like it's supposed to be shocking or moving, after all of the unbelievable absurdity.

This movie was a pretentious piece of garbage. Very disappointed after The Lobster, which I thought was a pretentious piece of gold.

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You should warn about spoilers.

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My post literally says

*spoilers ahead*

in the second line.

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Agreed - this was a pretty crappy film. No explanations given - some posters refer to allegory, and some ancient greek myth - but that implies that this film didn't provide sufficient info on its own, which is poor film making at best.

Otherwise, crappy soundtrack which comprised of squeaky sounds, horrible writing, especially the dialogues, and a horrible concept overall.

I'd suggest people to skip this one. Then again.... I suspect that this was a film that some would call artistic - and there's a definite odd atmosphere throughout the film. That means that those who liked 'fountain' and other 'artistic' films may love this. Me? Had I know this was a fountain-esque film, I wouldn't have bothered.

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Yeah, I hate when people try to defend crappy movie by saying 'you don't understand, it was a metaphor for [insert cool reference here]'. If a film doesn't stand on its own, it's crap.

I actually loved The Lobster and The Fountain, but boy did I think this one sucked.

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My thoughts exactly.

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Yeah, didn't like this movie at all but people seem to be praising it anyway. It was like a family of dysfunctional rejects hooked up on some overdosed xanax chill pill (monotone look and speak) that won't listen to one another while keeping secrets. That along with their fucked up sex life or fetish where the wife just lies on bed like some necro retarded bitch. Wonder why they didn't just kill Martin.

The boy that got killed seemed the most sane while the wife came next. Why didn't the wife just kill the husband for all his wrongdoings of however they're getting magically punished? In the end I was just rooting for Martin to just kill the whole family however he's doing it or some metaphorical attack of some crap when he mentioned it with the biting of the doctors hand and his own.

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Not all acting needs to be naturalistic.. They talk that way so you don't associate too closely with them and can instead see the big picture... it's called distencing effect or something in the theatre... it works as you clearly didn't find the character "likeable"...

This isn't neorealism... Not everything needs to be explained...

Do you guys really need the supernatural to be explained? it is not the point of the film... The point isn't a detective story trying to find out how they supernatural thing works and defeat it... This isn't The Conjuring 3...

If it was based on some comic book scripture or a cartoon... sorry, "anime", would you guys still feel it was so unbelievably absurd? Do you need a source to tether the film to? ... If so, there is that Greek myth of the same name... I think the film works well on it's own...

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*clinks glass*...

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😘

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You said it well. It went over their heads about what it represented. Much like "The Triangle" it is an allegory based on a Greek myth, much like the movie "Triangle". I loved that film, and yet it has some supernatural and unexplained phenomena due to the main character not taking responsibility and repenting for their actions.

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Your post totally makes sense. How can anyone find this movie even remotely interesting, meaningful, or worth watching?

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