lola-nandez

The main issue is the lack of empathy you feel for K. I don't even think it's the acting, it's the directing and writing. His wife also feels like a novice actress who won't be important, while she somewhat is. It's a nice fresh film, you can't really tell what's gonna happen next and the experimental side of it is worth the watch, even if that was not always not amazingly done. But to engage audiences it's probably better to make them care about the fate of the most important person in the movie, and K is not human enough for 90% of the movie for us to do so. Not a waste but seemed like too much energy was focused on trying too hard to be innovative.

Nothing new or refreshing. The silly and unnecessarily complicated CGI, the weird camera work moving forwards or backwards without rhyme or reason, scenes where there is nothing center framed so it's hard to know what you're supposed to be watching, basically everything you see in every SLB movie repeated once again, making the movie look often times a bit juvenile. The music manages to break the rhythm of the story every single time. Even the way the characters "in love" interact is very similar to previous movies. The story is interesting and some scenes are well acted, spoiled by the attempt to make them over the top. There was no need for it, if instead of looks SLB focused on the stories and the acting, his work would be more memorable.

I'm not one to say the story in a movie is as important as how you tell it, but in this case, it makes sense. This movie tells a story we already know and pretend not to so we can go on about our lives without thinking about the millions of girls and women suffering. Every actor involved did a great job, you truly see how Sonia is little by little diminishing and how she would have ended up. I almost wish they didn't make her part of the 1% but rather of the majority so to raise awareness about prostitution. I find it really important they made sure they showed you need a large number of people - including the police - to be complicit for this to be possible. At the same time, it just goes to show how horrible and greedy humans can be.