As Faces da Verdade

Frankly, I hated it.

I kept watching to see if somehow the dots would connect. I rewound trying to force them to connect; collected clues that led nowhere.

Unfortunately, the dots didn't connect to anything at all; the balloon dream was a moment of interesting visual but just another dead end. Not a single character redeemed the film. At best they were all unlikable; even the doctor who delivered the diagnosis.

It felt as though I was trapped in a modern art museum with a bunch of people looking at a blue square and pontificating a meaning. There was none to be found...just sad, random dots and an hour and forty minutes that I can't get back. My advise, skip this movie. Anything you spend the time doing will be an improvement.

The way I see this movie is quite straightforward - it makes you think. It pushes you to delve deep down your soul and find answers to something you see but can not perceive easily. The manner of direction is splendid - it's warm and cozy, with a touch of dreamy effect that makes you all enchanted until you see the final cut of the scene. It's lucid that people are tired nowadays. Most of them don't enjoy witnessing something that remains oblivious. They'd rather sit down with a sandwich and watch kitsch, or a crime story or a fervent romance that usually doesn't occur in life. What does transpire is the verity that we are born with a man and a woman living inside us. They navigate our life, they switch the driver's seat as required - they go hand in hand. It's just some people refuse to see it, some deny it. Some even don't realize it. But I believe that's one of the most important ideas of the film - to signify (in an artsy way) that the moment we acknowledge the aforementioned, the moment we accept it, only then we become complete.

Jim Sturgess gives a fantastic performance in this film made by a writer director with no real interest in making a movie. There are no stakes as Jim's character is an "architect" with only vague concept drawing of designs that will "change the world" taped to his wall.

The real issue with this film is that none of the post production departments were paid for their labor. The production used the 2020 lockdown as a paper thin excuse not to pay anyone. I was the sound designer / re-recording mixer and this production owes me over $20,000.00.

These filmmakers have abhorrent business practices. They only care about calling themselves filmmakers.

4 stars because the movie sounded good.

Probably for the wrong reasons...like the comment made by the supposed sound engineer of this movie in this comments section. But they're right...it DID sound good. Another reason their comment is interesting is that i can believe a lot of what was said in their commentary...like that the director/writer of the film wasn't really interested in making a movie...but just wanted to be seen(haha) as a film maker...because it was a movie with some ideas, none of them fleshed out in any satisfactory way to me...like a child's drawing. Stick figures. What i DON'T believe is the amount of money this person, the supposed sound engineer, says they're owed...20 million? PLEASE! That's how much SOME A list actors make.

The OTHER things i don't believe are the 10 ratings. I would bet 20 million that they're associated with the movie, or people who MADE the movie, in some way. Their comments are lies. EACH of them were first time reviewers.

It was BAREly interesting enough to make me watch it till the end... i guess i did in hopes that SOMEthing would be enlightening. Didn't happen for me...some parts connected, but it's nowhere as profound as it pretends to be.

I really enjoyed the surreal energy of the movie. I liked the colors in it it just felt like you are watching a dream. However this movie tries to tell lots of things such as betrayal, true love, childhood trauma, looking deep in to the life but you can't connect all of these things together and in result you can't connect to the movie and the characters. Everything just feels overwhelmed.

Even subplots don't add anything to the main plot and make you wondering "okay so what was that?" I feel it would be better if the writer and director would have sticked to one or two subjects in the movie.