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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Unclear
The film is too unclear about what is going on. It switches constantly from points of view. But those POV are not clear. It's too chaotic. The images are not exactly beautiful, rather bland. Lighting seems low budget. Music is okayish. But script is naff. I'm left guessing as to what is going on. I thought the ending would tie answer all of that for me by explaining what was going on. But no.
Save 100 minutes of your life and don't bother watching this. It's sentimental chaos. It feels as though the writer just took a bunch of random ideas, threw them together and made a romantic montage out of the whole thing. And the subplot was just to pad the whole thing out. Acting is okay I guess, but if a script is not watertight then that let's the whole thing down.
Das Schloß (1997)
Utter Claptrap Don't Bother
I really like Amour and White Ribbon but this is utter claptrap. So boring and such a dull story line which abruptly ends without any conclusion. Visually it's a bore. Hitchcock would have called this "Photographs of people talking". The film is heavy on dialogue. There was little point in making this into a film as 99% of the information is given through dialogue and narration and the story might as well have been a radio play. Don't waste 2 hours of your life.
So if it is supposed to be some poetic reflection on life or a particular issue then it needs to be clearer. In my opinion a film should be understandable in its own right. If I need to read Kafka in order to watch the film, then that is a failure in my opinion.