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Everyday life is boring

posted 10 years ago by hgmichna
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I have often said that a good movie must contain an unlikely act, because otherwise it would depict ordinary everyday life, which is boring.

This movie does show ordinary everyday life, progressing very slowly, in parts even very unpleasant, and consequently it is utterly boring. When I showed it, one family member after the other left the home cinema, mumbling that they had better things to do.

I alone held out until the very end, only to be "rewarded" with an abrupt ending of an unfinished story, if you can call this sequence of home videos a story.

There is nothing special about a bad, boring movie, but I am still trying to understand the large difference between my and my family's judgment and that of the critics, who gave the movie a metascore of 100. What boring lives must these critics lead that they find such a boring movie worth watching?

[–] kyoozo 9 years ago

I agree with you 100%.

[–] ThisGuy4000 9 years ago

What boring lives must these critics lead that they find such a boring movie worth watching?

It doesn't have to do with people living boring lives. To me at least, the charm of this movie is the fact that it shows that there is a certain level of beauty to everyday life. People like seeing things in movies that they can relate to, and pretty much everyone can relate to having been a kid who does mundane things. It's not a complex movie with character motivations and a major source of conflict with an antagonist (the stepfather doesn't count since he disappears pretty quickly), it's just a simple film about a kid's life over the years, and it doesn't claim to be anything other than that.

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[–] kyoozo 8 years ago

The makers of this movie, I'm sure, claim that it's a good movie, as did many critics. That's what I was disputing. I thought it was awful.

[–] Eishall_Ranamok_1 9 years ago

Ordinary everyday life is an unlikely occurrence.

[–] guccipix 8 years ago

Watching someone else's life can bring something out in us and make us better appreciate our own. And thus, the moving picture was invented!

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