I saw this film at the Florida Film Festival and if I may say... it was dreadful. I fell asleep about twenty minutes into it and am not ashamed to say that I heard others snoring before be. This was followed by several chuckles from the audience, not at the movie mind you, but at their wish that they could fall asleep too.
The story could be funny if the film was made better. I'm not going to just say "it wasn't made well" like some other users, I'll gladly back it up. The pyro work looked good, but the acting was sub-par... the color palette made me ill and the framing was at times equally vertigo inducing. This tried to be a comedy and an art film and fell apart at every step of the way. Something can only be funny if the characters have dimension, these were 2D. They represented "concepts" not people and that's never funny unless used in a straight satire. If they were going for that maybe they should've removed the romantic backstory and left the film a pure farce on the rich and powerful and those who ONLY aspire to be rich and powerful.
The ending was equally unsatisfying... the husband and wife make up and decide to going living the life that made them miserable because it was comfortable? There's no real emotion and as far as I'm concerned a comedic feature without some level of reality is nothing more then a comedy sketch gone mad and allowed to ramble for two hours.
The story could be funny if the film was made better. I'm not going to just say "it wasn't made well" like some other users, I'll gladly back it up. The pyro work looked good, but the acting was sub-par... the color palette made me ill and the framing was at times equally vertigo inducing. This tried to be a comedy and an art film and fell apart at every step of the way. Something can only be funny if the characters have dimension, these were 2D. They represented "concepts" not people and that's never funny unless used in a straight satire. If they were going for that maybe they should've removed the romantic backstory and left the film a pure farce on the rich and powerful and those who ONLY aspire to be rich and powerful.
The ending was equally unsatisfying... the husband and wife make up and decide to going living the life that made them miserable because it was comfortable? There's no real emotion and as far as I'm concerned a comedic feature without some level of reality is nothing more then a comedy sketch gone mad and allowed to ramble for two hours.
