Well shot, and equally well acted, but front to back every character in this movie is just a horrible person, and left me tired and frustrated rather than anxiously involved. Even the heroine/protagonist (I'm assuming that's what she is?) was so relentlessly neglectful and wilfully dense that when her eventual payoff comes around it didn't feel as gratifying as it perhaps should.
I have plenty of time for harrowing movies, but this lacked cadence. Even just an extra character there with some semblance of positivity and emotional wherewithal to provide a little relief from the blanket of inhumanity that this thing throws over you would have sufficed.
I can certainly see why people here are raving about it, but for me a movie needs more balance to be as affective as this attempts to be.
I have plenty of time for harrowing movies, but this lacked cadence. Even just an extra character there with some semblance of positivity and emotional wherewithal to provide a little relief from the blanket of inhumanity that this thing throws over you would have sufficed.
I can certainly see why people here are raving about it, but for me a movie needs more balance to be as affective as this attempts to be.