Sometimes I'm a bit conflicted when rating films like this one because I can sort of see why other people would like it in terms of characters, story, cinematography etc.-frankly, I did not enjoy the film very much but I won't be bashing the film and act like whomever appreciates the film is a pretentious pseudointellectual since I myself have watched slow-paced arthouse films that I liked which were deemed pretentious and pseudointellectual by others.
Going into this film I did not have any prior expectations and I actually quite enjoyed it for the film 30-45 minutes or so, but then it became a bit of a blurry snoozefest in my opinion. It felt all over the place and I could not see a coherent theme, it didn't even seem to provide me the satisfaction of phenomenological insight that other neorealist film seemed to be capable of even though other reviews here seem to differ in that regard.
During the second half of the film everything felt cluttered and almost claustrophobic. The office rooms and hallways without windows were incredibly dull and I didn't feel much aesthetic pleasure. Perhaps this was an intentional directional choice to highlight certain elements of capitalism or whatever, but to me it just felt dull and boring.
For the last 30 minutes I was honestly just waiting for the film to end. The connection I felt with the lead character and the young girl had vaporized, I couldn't really string together the thematic coherence, didn't get much aesthetic pleasure or intellectual insight, nor the phenomenological insight that other neorealist films seem to provide. 4/10 would probably not watch again.
Going into this film I did not have any prior expectations and I actually quite enjoyed it for the film 30-45 minutes or so, but then it became a bit of a blurry snoozefest in my opinion. It felt all over the place and I could not see a coherent theme, it didn't even seem to provide me the satisfaction of phenomenological insight that other neorealist film seemed to be capable of even though other reviews here seem to differ in that regard.
During the second half of the film everything felt cluttered and almost claustrophobic. The office rooms and hallways without windows were incredibly dull and I didn't feel much aesthetic pleasure. Perhaps this was an intentional directional choice to highlight certain elements of capitalism or whatever, but to me it just felt dull and boring.
For the last 30 minutes I was honestly just waiting for the film to end. The connection I felt with the lead character and the young girl had vaporized, I couldn't really string together the thematic coherence, didn't get much aesthetic pleasure or intellectual insight, nor the phenomenological insight that other neorealist films seem to provide. 4/10 would probably not watch again.