Just because it's ambigiuous doesn't mean it's good
There are many films that are surreal and hard to understand, such as several works by Bunuel, Jodorowsky, Lynch and Herzog. While watching a film by any of them, even though you do not necessarily understand what the film means you feel that it has a certain philosophical or spiritual point. Mulholland Drive is for example a film that is not easy to understand but nonetheless millions of people watch it and sense and feel that it has a meaning and even though it is ambigiuous as hell it somehow speaks to you. In my opinion, and those that agree the movie stinks more or less, The Limits of Control does not subtly contain the same or similar amount of depth as the works of the previous mentioned masters. It is a film that tries to be meaningful but fails, it fails because it doesn't reach to that hidden part of our Souls or consciousness that it tries to reach. Every other film Jarmusch has done is a success in my book but this one I have to say is pretentious. Trying can be so pretentious, especially in art. When an artist tries to create instead of creating he is in a way pretending. Southland Tales by Richard Kelly is IMO similar to The Limits of Control in this way.
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