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Unbearably over wrought plot, most of the time slow and boring (she leaves but she doesn't but she leaves but she doesn't but she goes to the airport but she doesn't they both go but they don't). The vulgar and explicit sex scene was totally unnecessary (the director was probably sitting there with his hard on as they endlessly redid it because it was never quite 'there') - we get it they are very much in love. The movie in numerous places shows ignorance of judaism (constantly saying 'hashem' doesn't make it an authentic movie) . Rachel McAdams was great but didn't manage to make up for Rachel Weisz's evident self loathing coming from her over dramatic gestures.

This has very good reviews so i watched it. Normally I don't like to say anymore than watch it and enjoy the film but in this case I'm just going to say if there is nothing else on the tele and you don't fancy watching anything you've recorded or downloaded then it's watchable as a last resort.

I have no idea what's supposed to be so "complex" about this film, as some other people claimed. This is pretty much as straight forward as it gets. There's exactly one scene in the film, close to the end that genuinely surprised me and felt meaningful and satisfying (you'll know the scene I'm talking about if you watched the film). But then immediately after, the film switches back into "stereotypical-forced-melodrama-mode" with a vengeance. The ending simply makes no sense to me and in my opinion runs contrary to the "big revelation" about freedom the film serves a couple of minutes before.

1st off I'm not anti semitic, I have no personal issues with anything, or anyone that is Jewish, but as far as movies go the frequent overuse is just boring, and stale, and really done to death. These are the very thoughts that went through my mind when I started watching Obedience. I fully understand that the Jews run Hollywood, and that if a script is going to get approved it has a better shot if said script appeals to the powers that be, but in an industry where the main goal is to make money you would think they might considering changing things up a bit once in a while, perhaps even sometimes leaving religion out of it all together. More people would be able to relate to a movie like this, instead of always being slapped in the face with a subject most people are impartial to.

As far as the film itself goes it really is painfully boring and slow. The actors do an adequate enough job with what they are given to work with, but really with such a contrived script unless you are one of the 15 million people mentioned in the title this film is utterly unrelatable and about as interesting as watching paint dry. A rating of 4 out of 10 is being kind.

Veeeeery slow....very boring.Did not touch me at all.Nothing,sorry

Interesting subject and very beautiful jewish religious songs, two interesting characters well interpreted by Alessandro Nivola and Rachel McAddams. But the main character interpreted by Rachel Weisz is truly disappointing and frustrating. I haven't read the book but the interpretation is so poor, artificial that the character is just boring or even irritating. The photography is very professional but impersonal and so a good subject, an interesting relation between Esti and her husband are spoiled by an unimaginative treatment and the bad interpretation of the main character by Rachel Weisz also very annoying in an other film that had also a good subject Agora, but was finally very unsatisfactory.

Let me place my cards on the table and say I find religion repulsive and homosexuality deeply unattractive. It follows that had I read a summary of the film before selecting it on Netflix, I probably wouldn't have watched it. So why did I persist? I do try to remind myself that there are human beings involved, and they deserve a bid for my sympathy. Even in fiction. Did they succeed - no. I'm not sure whether we are supposed to find the religious stuff quaint and moving, or the sexual stuff titillating? No again. This dragged out much-ado-about nothing much, features that well-known device, the character(s) that chop and change. You know, the "stop the car", and "I couldn't do it" stuff which tries to inject some drama into the depiction of people who can't make firm decisions, even the most obvious ones. Why go somewhere and stay when you're not doing any good, and are becoming increasingly unwelcome? To drag out the agony of course, while it becomes more and more tedious to the viewer. I really had no sympathy with anyone in the film, and just wished they would jump in the river, individually or collectively. The acting is good and so is the cinematography. It's just that I hated pretty much everything else. You can watch it, but be prepared to be left with a feeling of irritation.