dvlbr
Joined Jan 2020
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I really tried my best to find little details or possible explanations that could make me at least enjoy this film, but I didn't; or if I did, they're really not much.
Now it is official that Wong Kar-wai and I do not get along. Where other people (a lot apparently) find poetry and beauty in the silence and the missed moments I personally find pure boredom, subtly bothered by the monotone structure of the story.
How can I relate to the characters if I know nothing about them? The director loses himself in what he thinks is poetry, the dialogue too poetic and simplistically symmetrical, the pacing too asymmetrical in a first act where literally nothing is shown nor told, creating sequences that are at times too still or too fast, frozen in time by the really bothering and only piece of score there is.
Some sequences are good, but the whole thing doesn't work for me. Breath-taking photography, good acting and Nat King Cole are the things that I will take from this.
Now it is official that Wong Kar-wai and I do not get along. Where other people (a lot apparently) find poetry and beauty in the silence and the missed moments I personally find pure boredom, subtly bothered by the monotone structure of the story.
How can I relate to the characters if I know nothing about them? The director loses himself in what he thinks is poetry, the dialogue too poetic and simplistically symmetrical, the pacing too asymmetrical in a first act where literally nothing is shown nor told, creating sequences that are at times too still or too fast, frozen in time by the really bothering and only piece of score there is.
Some sequences are good, but the whole thing doesn't work for me. Breath-taking photography, good acting and Nat King Cole are the things that I will take from this.
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