Having believed that this must be a 'special' film, I watched it. Having seen it... I am confused. I cannot identify anything 'special' about the film at all.
The acting is average, the story is mundane... and it is so 'middle class' American, that it is almost entirely pointless to the rest of the world.
Presumably, childhood only happens in America... and it is entirely made up of 'brooding', 'seething'... and being generally morose. All interspersed with alcoholic lunatics who have no 'back stories' of their own?
Even if there was something to be learnt from a youth spent in the US... 'Wreck It Ralph' taught me far more than this pretentious piece of self indulgent nonsense ever could. The characterizations are clichéd, the 'kids' are tedious... and the events are interesting in the same way as going to a supermarket is. As in... not very.
I give it 2 because of the possibility that I might have missed something even mildly engaging about this festival of American teen angst... but I am being generous.
I don't like being the one to say so... but this is American self indulgence at it's very worst. An 'Oscar' nominee? Really...?
'Cake' is 100 times the work of art this bore is.
The acting is average, the story is mundane... and it is so 'middle class' American, that it is almost entirely pointless to the rest of the world.
Presumably, childhood only happens in America... and it is entirely made up of 'brooding', 'seething'... and being generally morose. All interspersed with alcoholic lunatics who have no 'back stories' of their own?
Even if there was something to be learnt from a youth spent in the US... 'Wreck It Ralph' taught me far more than this pretentious piece of self indulgent nonsense ever could. The characterizations are clichéd, the 'kids' are tedious... and the events are interesting in the same way as going to a supermarket is. As in... not very.
I give it 2 because of the possibility that I might have missed something even mildly engaging about this festival of American teen angst... but I am being generous.
I don't like being the one to say so... but this is American self indulgence at it's very worst. An 'Oscar' nominee? Really...?
'Cake' is 100 times the work of art this bore is.