I watched this movie a few days ago, it happened to be on TV. I decided to watch it as it had won an Oscar. Well what I got was a tedious, melodramatic piece of film making that was not too good at all.
First of all there's 2 boys, one of which shoots a bus. The bullet hits a woman and she nearly dies. At the same time her kids are being minded by a Mexican illegal immigrant who decides to take the 2 children to her son's wedding in Mexico.
Meanwhile in a pretty much unrelated story, a deaf Japanese girl is having difficulties in her relationship with her father and is generally unhappy and sexually frustrated. After taking some alcohol and drugs with her friends, she goes out to a night club but leaves when the boy she likes kisses her friend. When she goes home a police officer calls in relation to the gun that her father used to own. She takes things a little too far with this guy and it gets a little embarrassing for them both.
In conclusion, this film feels like it was written as it was filmed. There was no point in making this, no imagination and no inspiration. It was like Pulp Fiction crossed with Lost in Translation only far worse than either (and I didn't care much for Lost In Translation).
Avoid
First of all there's 2 boys, one of which shoots a bus. The bullet hits a woman and she nearly dies. At the same time her kids are being minded by a Mexican illegal immigrant who decides to take the 2 children to her son's wedding in Mexico.
Meanwhile in a pretty much unrelated story, a deaf Japanese girl is having difficulties in her relationship with her father and is generally unhappy and sexually frustrated. After taking some alcohol and drugs with her friends, she goes out to a night club but leaves when the boy she likes kisses her friend. When she goes home a police officer calls in relation to the gun that her father used to own. She takes things a little too far with this guy and it gets a little embarrassing for them both.
In conclusion, this film feels like it was written as it was filmed. There was no point in making this, no imagination and no inspiration. It was like Pulp Fiction crossed with Lost in Translation only far worse than either (and I didn't care much for Lost In Translation).
Avoid