"Hollywood has dumbed down audiences so much that they are ill equipped to react with anything but anger to any movie that challenges them to think."
I completely agree with this statement. Once again a surreal movie gets undeserved hate, but this time from pseudo-intellectual "movie buffs" as well as the rabble. Because, ironically, film buffs have the worst taste in films, just as music "fans" who "listen" to 50,000 albums per year have no understanding of music.
The only bigger drawback in BOTW I can find would be part of the premise: that a person with such sadistic and violent tendencies would actually feel a surge of guilt so overwhelming that it would drive them to alcoholism then suicide. That, of course, isn't impossible, but is more than a little far-fetched. But considering that liberalism has infiltrated and brainwashed most of the "Free" West (well, it used to be free until recently), it is no wonder that a westerner would choose to believe that truly evil people without guilt don't exist; the writer doesn't say as much, but he might subscribe to this idiocy, just as the vast majority of film-makers do. Most film-makers are detached from the real world, quite incapable of dealing with its ugliness, so they go into denial mode.
Still, that's just a minor point in the grand scheme of all script-related things. The film has just the right mood to draw you in from the very beginning, making you suspect something weird is going on. Sure, the "it was all a dream" twist is hardly new, but this time the film openly tells you as much, fairly early on. It's not just about the twist anyway, the resolution (which is partly anyway open to personal interpretation), it's about being forced to face a challenging puzzle that is the antidote to any dumb Oscar-winning flick - or "Police Academy 5", whichever bores you more.
Comparisons to David Lynch are flawed, because this movie does make sense, whereas his silly, overrated enigmas ("Lost Highway", "Mulholland Drive") make zero sense because they're amalgamations of random nonsense presented as meaningful, profound messages. This helps explain why snobs, hipsters and the masses hate films like this: the snobs don't consider it abstract enough (i.e. they prefer vague nonsense into which they can inject any subjective interpretation they wish to) and masses hate it because it confuses them. Hence the low ratings on movie sites.
I'm a sucker for this "what's reality" type of fantasy drama. so maybe I'm not the one to be especially objective when I discuss them. Nevertheless, all "bias" aside, anyone with a smidgen of taste should recognize the film's obvious qualities.
I completely agree with this statement. Once again a surreal movie gets undeserved hate, but this time from pseudo-intellectual "movie buffs" as well as the rabble. Because, ironically, film buffs have the worst taste in films, just as music "fans" who "listen" to 50,000 albums per year have no understanding of music.
The only bigger drawback in BOTW I can find would be part of the premise: that a person with such sadistic and violent tendencies would actually feel a surge of guilt so overwhelming that it would drive them to alcoholism then suicide. That, of course, isn't impossible, but is more than a little far-fetched. But considering that liberalism has infiltrated and brainwashed most of the "Free" West (well, it used to be free until recently), it is no wonder that a westerner would choose to believe that truly evil people without guilt don't exist; the writer doesn't say as much, but he might subscribe to this idiocy, just as the vast majority of film-makers do. Most film-makers are detached from the real world, quite incapable of dealing with its ugliness, so they go into denial mode.
Still, that's just a minor point in the grand scheme of all script-related things. The film has just the right mood to draw you in from the very beginning, making you suspect something weird is going on. Sure, the "it was all a dream" twist is hardly new, but this time the film openly tells you as much, fairly early on. It's not just about the twist anyway, the resolution (which is partly anyway open to personal interpretation), it's about being forced to face a challenging puzzle that is the antidote to any dumb Oscar-winning flick - or "Police Academy 5", whichever bores you more.
Comparisons to David Lynch are flawed, because this movie does make sense, whereas his silly, overrated enigmas ("Lost Highway", "Mulholland Drive") make zero sense because they're amalgamations of random nonsense presented as meaningful, profound messages. This helps explain why snobs, hipsters and the masses hate films like this: the snobs don't consider it abstract enough (i.e. they prefer vague nonsense into which they can inject any subjective interpretation they wish to) and masses hate it because it confuses them. Hence the low ratings on movie sites.
I'm a sucker for this "what's reality" type of fantasy drama. so maybe I'm not the one to be especially objective when I discuss them. Nevertheless, all "bias" aside, anyone with a smidgen of taste should recognize the film's obvious qualities.