The Apple Tree

it could be a real touching film. because it gives a story desired to live by everybody. a long love story, inseparable partners, noble emotions, together across an entire life. but... . its basic sin is the feel of viewer to see the dialogues/words behind the characters/actors. like the words of puppets. the second error - the high desire to convince the public about the profound love using Manichean clichés. not the last - the sketches of situations, as tools to give a touching message. and, maybe, the powerful colors of images is not the best choice, too. it is a nice film, full of good intentions, saved by the thing who seems escape again and again to the director - more simplicity who doing the expected realism. because the memories of the lead character are mixed with the near reality in a form of improvisation. but, sure, the good point remains the kind of love story desired by each from us.

The overall story had great potential, but was very poorly executed!!

The part (flashback) from childhood was well-done and believable ...but the other half was beyond painful and difficult to watch. Imagine a kindergarten play where the participants are seniors with no acting experience. Not only are they bad actors, but some truly deplorable individuals. Is this what we have to look forward to? You expect this type of bullying in high school ...not retirement communities.

This movie is only half an hour long, but it seems like hours, or days. It reminds me of when I had measles for about two weeks as a child (before there was a vaccine), with a persistent, very high fever.

Time stopped, all senses were intensified so much they hurt, colors were hyper-saturated, and everything looked shimmery like it was baking in a desert. Nothing seemed real, and it was horrifying. It was like living in a nightmare that would never end, but the fever was so high I couldn't sleep. That was 60 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

That's what watching this movie is like. The strange cinematography even LOOKS feverish, like nothing is real, everything is unnatural, colors are too intense, the look is always either way too sharp or way too fuzzy, and there's something bad wrong with your eyes and brain.

The good people (which includes the gay couple only) are SO good they're cloying, suffocating, nearly as creepy as the overwhelmingly more numerous bad people (everybody else). The bad people are really, REALLY bad, like monsters disguised as humans. All of them are extremely, unvaryingly vicious and hateful.

Nothing anybody says sounds like human beings talking, but like demons, like beings that can say human words but have nothing human inside to give life to the words. The actors all look like dead people, stiffly animated through some sort of jerky special effects.

I don't like horror movies at all, but I'd rather watch a marathon of all the Exorcist movies and all their spin-offs than sit through this horrible movie again.