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Ivan Drago
12-26-2017, 08:35 PM
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Ivan Drago
12-26-2017, 08:57 PM
Saw this in February last year when it came to my area and haven't been able to stop thinking about it...for mostly the wrong reasons. I felt like it wanted the audience to guess who the shooter is over the course of the film but it's easy to pick out ten minutes in, while the majority of the runtime is filled with wide shots of people working menial jobs...and dyeing their hair orange...and taking selfies of themselves....and recording exercise videos of themselves...and screenshots of Google Maps. It was so tedious and inconsistent with its message that I felt its narrative (or lackthereof) was grasping at straws, which feels cheap and misguided given the event this is loosely based on. . .unless there was something I just didn't get? Did anyone else here see this?

Also, this was a memorable theater experience for me solely based on the fact that there were four other people in the theater with me when it started, but by the halfway point, I was the only one left.

Skitch
12-26-2017, 09:04 PM
That sounds intolerable and I'm uncomfortable with this project as a whole.

Ivan Drago
12-27-2017, 12:54 AM
That sounds intolerable and I'm uncomfortable with this project as a whole.

Yeah, the more I think about this, the more comfortable I am in placing this at the top of my list of the worst movies of the year. It even starts out with a mockumentary format and only goes back to it four times amongst the flat, pretentious tedium. It thinks it's Elephant but doesn't have the resources.

Good cinematography, though.