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What is the appeal of this film?

posted 17 years ago by gavinshapiro
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Hi,
They showed this film in a film class and everyone seemed to like it, and here on IMDB many people like it as well, and it has an 8 rating. I'm not trying to start a fight here, but rather I'd like to try to understand why you find this film to be so good. The 2 times I've seen it I just see many random images that I do not find to make sense...am I missing something? Is there a cryptic message hidden in the film that the director is trying to convey, or is it simply just random (or "surreal") imagery? Thanks

[–] zwolf 11 years ago

It was pretentious crap. It was filmmaking only in the sense that film was exposed to light and captured images.

They were trying to be Bunel or Cocteau or something, but they had no real ideas and just thought the point was to be "weird." Then they sit back and wait for faux-intellectuals to bestow greatness upon them because they're afraid to admit that something with no point to get is actually junk.

That said, it's still a better film than "Little Stabs At Happiness."

[–] Owlwise (1536) 4 years ago

It shows the complexities & contradictions of the inner landscape, the inner life, where dreams & memories & fantasies & fears are always alive & at work, even (especially) when we're not entirely conscious of them. It's not about plot or story or narrative, it's about the experience of being a person, with all the paradoxes & mysterious that come with being a person.