Wich similar topic movie do you prefer? This one or...

Wich movie do you prefer? This one or "Beautiful boy"?
Both movies deal with the parents perspective of a murderer teenager, so it stands to reason to sort of compare the two...

I prefer "Beautiful boy": It doesn't only focus in the mother, but in both parents. I think it express more clealy the "Althoug we knew something was wrong, we couldn't do anything about it, or we didn't know what to do" aspect of the problem, and therefore, I related more easyly to the parents of "Beautiful Boy" (plus, Michael Sheenand Maria Belloare excellent in that movie, as they almost allways are)

Don't take me wrong, I am not saying this one was bad: It is trying something interesting at editing/"montague" (I am studying Audiovisual Arts, and they used the opening of this movie as an example of "space-time construction on a movie" that somehow "deviates from the norm"), and Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller are very engaging in their "deattach" way of acting (It doesn't work for everyone, but for the ones to whom it works, It REALLY works) I love Miller, I think he is very expresive with very little.
But I think this movie is a little more vague/ambiguous with regards of what it is trying to say (I didn't read the book, so I am only basing my opinion in the information given by the movie that I was able to catch and "understand") and I think that, in this case (witch is not the case for all movies) that "vagueness" hurt the movie...

For example: Why the very explicit paralelism between the mother and her son? I am refering to the way they eat, or wash their faces... Is the movie trying to say that the mother is also a psichopat, or that the sun learn from her mother? I don't think that's the case, but still, in more than one ocation, mother and son are Indistinguishable from each other... What's up with that?

Sound mixing showed some interesting resources, but, again, I was unable to decipher what they were trying to say...

Audiovisual objects (such as movies) had their own language, their own way to tell something. Such language is often implicit, and open to interpretation, in order to allow the viewer to "connect" with the source material, to engage with it somehow. The degree of "language clearness" varies from movie to movie, from viewer to viewer: Some movies will seem very "strigh forward" to you, some will not.
In general, for me, the "This movie wasn't clear for me, and I had to think about it to reach an interpretation that, it turns out, was just mine" situation is a good thing. I like that kind of movie.
But this one... This one was more like "This movie was purposely ambiguous, so I HAD to interpret it to 'understand' it, but in has several dichotomies that make it impossible to reach a clear answer, to 'understand' some message"
That... That is not good... Every art form and art piece is trying to say something to me, to everyone... But, If the message is "dafhdighoindw fwweofhj"... Just giverish, or it is "This is this way, but, also, it is not, so... F you", a contradictory thing with no clear meaning...

I don't know... Whatya think?


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Excuse my english. I am a spanish speaker :$