This movie uses a unique style of showing the viewer its story. Yes, it's true, the story is a bit thin, but this is very well compensated by the enormous amount of emotion, atmosphere and beautiful visual anecdotes portrayed and successfully transferred to the viewer.
Although David Lammers' first movie, "De laatste dag van Alfred Maassen" ("The last day in the life of Alfred Maassen"), was better in terms of uniquely transferring emotion and atmosphere to the viewer, this movie also succeeds in doing just that: at some points you get the feeling that you can actually watch directly into the characters' souls, which is absolutely unique.
This unique way of movie-making is, in my opinion, not comparable to most other movies... This is a slow movie that you've got to emotionally "feel" instead of watch. Some people will probably hate it, but I love it.
****** Minor vague/abstract SEMI-SPOILERS below ****** At some points it feels like David Lammers tried to make this movie more accessible by adding certain cues for the audience to make them understand certain issues better. This really is too bad. Please don't underestimate your audience, David, nor it's capability of tying up loose ends!
Although David Lammers' first movie, "De laatste dag van Alfred Maassen" ("The last day in the life of Alfred Maassen"), was better in terms of uniquely transferring emotion and atmosphere to the viewer, this movie also succeeds in doing just that: at some points you get the feeling that you can actually watch directly into the characters' souls, which is absolutely unique.
This unique way of movie-making is, in my opinion, not comparable to most other movies... This is a slow movie that you've got to emotionally "feel" instead of watch. Some people will probably hate it, but I love it.
****** Minor vague/abstract SEMI-SPOILERS below ****** At some points it feels like David Lammers tried to make this movie more accessible by adding certain cues for the audience to make them understand certain issues better. This really is too bad. Please don't underestimate your audience, David, nor it's capability of tying up loose ends!