A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is strictly Roy Andersson. And should you not know what that means, it's better you approach it at your own curiosity of revelation. This movie is the final part in a spiritual trilogy of movies about being human, as so clarified by Roy Andersson himself in the movie's opening credits.
It's a movie that is as expected, all over the place; thematically, periodically and even emotionally. It's a bizarre final look into the human condition through the eyes of Roy Andersson; this time however, with a watered down lens that ends up being a lot more individualistic. That grandiose sense of scale that existed in the first two movies have been exchanged for a more personal means of analysis; through which the topics of boundaries, greed, companionship, aging and so much more are presented to us. And I think I'm better off having watched this than if I didn't.
It's a movie that is as expected, all over the place; thematically, periodically and even emotionally. It's a bizarre final look into the human condition through the eyes of Roy Andersson; this time however, with a watered down lens that ends up being a lot more individualistic. That grandiose sense of scale that existed in the first two movies have been exchanged for a more personal means of analysis; through which the topics of boundaries, greed, companionship, aging and so much more are presented to us. And I think I'm better off having watched this than if I didn't.