65/100
The House is actually a miniseries that was grouped into a feature film and announced as a Netflix special... and that isn't even the most confusing aspect of it.
Normally, when a movie revolves around more than one storyline, one of them will always outshine the others. With The House, it is no different. I guess that that was my biggest trouble with it, my harshest critique -since most of my problems with it could just be problematic nitpicks-. What I anticipated for worse pretty much happened the way I was expecting it to and the movie was indifferent at proving me otherwise.
All three stories suffer from the exact same thing: they feel entirely detatched from each other. The only moment where they reference the preceding story is by a minute reference that, if you were to only watch one of the three, you wouldn't even notice. What I am agitated with is that each story has ENTIRE scenes left unpurposed. It would've been interesting to see these stories have a sense of continuity since they all reside within the same house. It feels contradictory to push them all together with a "Film" tag attatched to it if they were to be this disconnected from each other in the first place.
The animation, though I have a soft spot for stop motion since it's the art medium that takes the most time and effort, sometimes doesn't match with the dialogue delivered by the voice cast. This wasn't entirely a problem since the film itself has a good camera understanding, leading to some up-to-par shots. The writing can sometimes feel awful since it doesn't establish enough information for us to process on account of each story's short runtime and the character design of the first story just feels off since the only purpose it contains is that of creating a confining atmosphere.
I guess I was expecting more, not only from my first ever movie released this year, but also for a movie that feels ambitious enough to be considered arthouse, but not good enough for the lack of initiative.
The House is actually a miniseries that was grouped into a feature film and announced as a Netflix special... and that isn't even the most confusing aspect of it.
Normally, when a movie revolves around more than one storyline, one of them will always outshine the others. With The House, it is no different. I guess that that was my biggest trouble with it, my harshest critique -since most of my problems with it could just be problematic nitpicks-. What I anticipated for worse pretty much happened the way I was expecting it to and the movie was indifferent at proving me otherwise.
All three stories suffer from the exact same thing: they feel entirely detatched from each other. The only moment where they reference the preceding story is by a minute reference that, if you were to only watch one of the three, you wouldn't even notice. What I am agitated with is that each story has ENTIRE scenes left unpurposed. It would've been interesting to see these stories have a sense of continuity since they all reside within the same house. It feels contradictory to push them all together with a "Film" tag attatched to it if they were to be this disconnected from each other in the first place.
The animation, though I have a soft spot for stop motion since it's the art medium that takes the most time and effort, sometimes doesn't match with the dialogue delivered by the voice cast. This wasn't entirely a problem since the film itself has a good camera understanding, leading to some up-to-par shots. The writing can sometimes feel awful since it doesn't establish enough information for us to process on account of each story's short runtime and the character design of the first story just feels off since the only purpose it contains is that of creating a confining atmosphere.
I guess I was expecting more, not only from my first ever movie released this year, but also for a movie that feels ambitious enough to be considered arthouse, but not good enough for the lack of initiative.