I think most films actually suffer from the reverse problem, in that often the standard running time of a film won't allow for proper character/plot development. Which is why I found the fact that this movie did seem to drag on for so long so surprising (and I agree, Enter the Void did this too). I think when a movie is this length, there just needs to be more going on (Cloud Atlas, I think, is a good example of when this length is necessary). As the whole movie, as a concept, was actually a little gimmicky as well, I feel like it could have been reduced to perhaps just under an hour and would have been, artistically, all the better for it.
That wasn't the only problem with this film, however. I think its portrayal of women was lacking in sophistication (which, I guess one comes to expect from a certain type of Sci-Fi) and the way in which they presented the east Asian wife in particular seemed a little clichéd to me. Also the "science" behind it all was, at times, quite irritating to watch (personally, I've always found the Big Crunch theory to be too sentimental to take seriously and they referenced this enough for me to notice...).
It was a very ambitious movie and for the first two hours I really admired its efforts - it's just that after a while, it becomes painfully obvious that the film has no actual point (which it technically can't due to the incoherent nature of the plot) and nothing all that original to say about love/the meaning of life/whatever. It could have been shorter.
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