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Difficult to follow narrative?

posted a year ago by [deleted]
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DISCLAIMER: I was drunk whilst watching this.

However it must be noted I'm under the influence of alcohol for approximately 90-95% of movies I watch. It's very, very rarely a problem. The last time I was drunk and wondering what the fuck was going on was when I watched Tenet (2020). I chalked that up to drunkness and rewatched it the following day sober, I still had no idea what was happening.

Hence my question here. It wasn't the booze was it?

I think the source of confusion was;
- You have a bunch of Swedes on first name basis, most/all of whom get very little screentime and much of what is being discussed about them happened a long time ago when they were younger and looked nothing like they do now.

- Whenever some revelation comes into play that Sebastian or Ingmar or whoever the fuck did something, you're left struggling to place the name to a face and to place that in relation to the missing sister, for example their relationship to her at the time.

Am I being a drunk idiot or is this movie difficult to follow?

[–] DancingintheDark (1614) a year ago

I will refrain from picking the low hanging fruit but TGWTDT is not hard to follow.

[–] Tommy711 (134) a year ago

It's very 'jumpy' at both the start and end of the movie, yes. And yes there are a lot of characters so it's difficult to keep up with who is who, but watching the movie all the way through you start to remember the important characters.