Given the accolades this film received, the claim that mentions the word "satire" is nowhere to be found, because there is neither black comedy nor satire to be found anywhere within this film, with the outcome of watching to the end leaving the viewer scratching his or her head as confounded, if he or she had not been put to sleep by this film's lethargic pace in the third act.
It is the fatalistic plodding pacing that truly kills the momentum of the non-existent story under vestige of class criticism complete with a discordant political rumination debating capitalism, Marxism and even an odd conspiracy theory about America in the middle. Not to mention nauseatingly (pun intended) distasteful that reminds me of the infamous campfire story in Stand By Me, which was certainly satirical, unlike this film.
The fact that this film somehow won the prestigious Palme d'Or and many top European awards, despite its questionable quality and lack of a definitive point, is proof that the European doesn't have the good taste, for lack of a better phrase, only that the European cineaste type prefer the plodding pace to the point of dullness, strange pretentiousness that pretends to be timely and important, and infuriating pointlessness lacking the substance of the overall story with rambling dialogues spoken by one-dimensional characters who we could not care less about.
Only two good things about this film are sometimes decent cinematography and European aesthetics, but everything else is awful.
The Black film critic for National Review, Armond White, while often a contrarian, was correct about how awful this film is, with him outright calling the Swedish director-trying to emulate Kubrick, but he's no Kubrick, not even by a distance-"a misanthrope and a fraud." Mr. White gave this film good enough thrashing that those who dislike or loathe this film will enjoy his review, while knowing that, like me, we are sorrowful for wasting time and money seeing this bizarre (especially the political rant in the middle; if that's trying to be satirical, it fails miserably), meandering and ultimately pointless and unfunny pseudo-intellectual rubbish.
If you value your time while seeking a clever satirical film, do not waste time seeing this film. True satire is rare, and this film ain't it.
It is the fatalistic plodding pacing that truly kills the momentum of the non-existent story under vestige of class criticism complete with a discordant political rumination debating capitalism, Marxism and even an odd conspiracy theory about America in the middle. Not to mention nauseatingly (pun intended) distasteful that reminds me of the infamous campfire story in Stand By Me, which was certainly satirical, unlike this film.
The fact that this film somehow won the prestigious Palme d'Or and many top European awards, despite its questionable quality and lack of a definitive point, is proof that the European doesn't have the good taste, for lack of a better phrase, only that the European cineaste type prefer the plodding pace to the point of dullness, strange pretentiousness that pretends to be timely and important, and infuriating pointlessness lacking the substance of the overall story with rambling dialogues spoken by one-dimensional characters who we could not care less about.
Only two good things about this film are sometimes decent cinematography and European aesthetics, but everything else is awful.
The Black film critic for National Review, Armond White, while often a contrarian, was correct about how awful this film is, with him outright calling the Swedish director-trying to emulate Kubrick, but he's no Kubrick, not even by a distance-"a misanthrope and a fraud." Mr. White gave this film good enough thrashing that those who dislike or loathe this film will enjoy his review, while knowing that, like me, we are sorrowful for wasting time and money seeing this bizarre (especially the political rant in the middle; if that's trying to be satirical, it fails miserably), meandering and ultimately pointless and unfunny pseudo-intellectual rubbish.
If you value your time while seeking a clever satirical film, do not waste time seeing this film. True satire is rare, and this film ain't it.
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