It's a serious attempt at great cinema that is itself bad cinema. There's nothing brilliant or insightful about it. It's only about a bunch of depressed people and their loose associations with some people who may or may not be equally depressed.
shareI couldn't agree more. . .I am 20 minutes from the end and could genuinely care less about what happens. Lines are delivered with inflection that makes no sense for the scene, flashes to people, places and moments that appear to have nothing to do with the story and it is so chopped to pieces, you have no idea how and why one character is supposed to relate to another. Apparently, I am too simple minded to understand the deep, dramatic undertones of this film, which is sad considering all of the amazing actors in it.
shareI disagree with your thread title: Youth would need weight to begin with in order to collapse from its weight. This has no weight, only hot air. This is the worship of celebrity angst--it's as if Sofia Coppola had filmed The Magic Mountain.
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"Here is the ice you ordered, Mr. Ismay." – Titanic Captain E.J. Smith
I kind of liked not having to follow some idiotic too clever plot with a lot of violence, spectacle or murder.
shareI kept reaching for the remote to turn it off, but then the next scene would catch my attention in some way--it would be beautiful or bizarre or intriguing--and I would keep watching.
I agree with your basic premise, but for me, it's more that it "sustained itself."
Interesting to look at, but it neither entertained or provoked.
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