This movie demands 100% attention - it is not a "sit back and go with the flow and a bag of pop corn" movie. If you don't pay attention, you don't get it. It being the story, the plot, the meaning and messages. And if you don't get it, the whole thing doesn't make any sense and will leave you in confusion.
If you do pay attention, and if you're in the bonus position of viewing this movie at home, where you can hit "replay" the moment the credits roll, layers upon layers of interesting ideas become revealed.
There are many things to like. The performances were very good across the board, and the refusal on the part of the director to show the violence in the usual gory detail becomes more ... poignant as time goes on. I mean that both in terms of the time of the unfolding movie as well as in terms of watching it more than once, which I would recommend.
This movie is intriguing and extremely intelligent. I absolutely applaud this on all levels. The only reason I took a point off and gave it nine stars instead of ten was that I would have preferred the dialogue to be slightly crisper/clearer in the sound mixing to help us "understand."
If you do pay attention, and if you're in the bonus position of viewing this movie at home, where you can hit "replay" the moment the credits roll, layers upon layers of interesting ideas become revealed.
There are many things to like. The performances were very good across the board, and the refusal on the part of the director to show the violence in the usual gory detail becomes more ... poignant as time goes on. I mean that both in terms of the time of the unfolding movie as well as in terms of watching it more than once, which I would recommend.
This movie is intriguing and extremely intelligent. I absolutely applaud this on all levels. The only reason I took a point off and gave it nine stars instead of ten was that I would have preferred the dialogue to be slightly crisper/clearer in the sound mixing to help us "understand."