violentauntie

Like a love child of Terence Malick and the Wachowski's, without the talent of either just the inheritance of their money and property.

Sloppy sentimental waste of a large film budget. God only knows why the film has such a high rating, I can only assume that this is mostly from those who like chick flicks (same empty bittersweet scenarios over and over again) duped into thinking that they have watched a meaningful piece of cinema and therefore feel good about themselves.

For the rest of us who don't want to watch kids getting off with each other for 2 hours with random flash back/forwards inserted later in the editing room, there is nothing to see here, do not waste your time even if you are into Terence Malick movies, because it is just like that but without the honesty of his work which reaches a point of expressing existential longing in poem form, something this film is blatantly trying to do without the language to do it.

Mamonov's performance is wonderful as are the others in this great film. The film making is fine, tasteful even in keeping with the story and understated.

It is a really good story, simple but with a golden message at it's core, at least it moved me in a good direction to forget about pride, greed and lust for a moment.

It is strange that this exists side by side with film's by Nolan etc and shows the misuse of the medium and the sickness of society that a film like this is ignored whilst entertainment that relies on playing on greed and ignorance is king.

See what I did there? Maybe the pun got made elsewhere, but there are a healthy 280 reviews of this film so far and i don't have time to look through all of them to see if I LOOK/APPEAR/SEEM to be unoriginal. But the question remains whether the similarity of my pun alone renders it unoriginal. If thats true then it doesn't matter whether or not I copied it. But I don't think it is true, and like this film, which covers very similar ground to other movies it manages to be unique in it's execution. Most of the comments about it are negative, I believe because those people were frustrated by it because it goes so far but pulls out, because the blind people are almost zombies but not quite because no one gets bitten (there is a verbal threat of biting). Damn good show, certainly underrated, most probably like this review...