I'm bothering to comment on this movie because I noticed some critics compared him to Tarkovsky and Wong Kar Wai. There are a few things I like to comment:
- It's not there is no plot. There is a plot but the director did all his best, by many jump cuts and flashbacks, not to give it to you and I was confused why? Is it a new form of art to have tens of flashbacks?
- Unrealistic characters and sloppy connection between them. There are many useless characters introduced to say one or more sentences and they are gone. The lady in jail, the lady who got the restaurant, two punks at the poll table. Remove them and nothing will happen. For example, the guy asks the lady in jail that why are you here. She say for many things: theft, counterfeit IDs, etc. I'm not sure what was the use of this dialogue and how the movie is impacted if remove it is removed.
- useless long shot. Why the hell I need to watch a guy biting on an apple for 3 minutes? Was that necessary to watch that long shot to know about the importance of apple in the movie?
- unnecessary use of 3D. Does the director think if the second part wasn't shot in 3D we couldn't get that's the dream.
- and many more elements (i.e. the narration, music, lighting) that their contributions to the essence and the message is not clear and straightforward.
- HORRIBLE ENGLISH SUBTITLES. It seems all dialogues were translated with a software. That is fine but please ask someone to review and correct the rubbish translation. There are many cases of using non common vocabularies in the subtitles that kill the mood and sounds funny. I am not sure if it's common to say: