This film is beautiful, it is poetic and it is bullsht.. it is thoroughly depressing and at times confusing. The only relief to this is when your confusion abades when finally you stop trying to figure out what the Hell is actually going on and on when you simply decide to enjoy the pretty colours and shapes of American architecture and scenery. Because to wonder why the characters (if you can even call them that) are in any place and for what reason to to grasp at straws which aren't even there.
This film is essentially an aggrandising and glorification of the shallow side of human nature in the most unrelentingly pitying fashion. It's two hours worth of very little substance with some very big names, filmed in a very beautiful way. It's like a feature length GQ photo shoot.
That all said, it was very pretty. Just don't expect to come away from it with anything other than a sense of numbness. As I say in my title, it is very much like watching a foreign film without subtitles. You get the gist of what's going on, but there is no detail for which you can attach yourself emotionally. You won't care about any of the characters nor what is going on, if anything was actually going on at all.
Alternative titles for this film may have included "Christian bale gets so bored that he thinks he might possess actual human emotion but it turns out he just took some mescaline with a model" or "rich people get so happy that it eventually makes them sad".
This film is essentially an aggrandising and glorification of the shallow side of human nature in the most unrelentingly pitying fashion. It's two hours worth of very little substance with some very big names, filmed in a very beautiful way. It's like a feature length GQ photo shoot.
That all said, it was very pretty. Just don't expect to come away from it with anything other than a sense of numbness. As I say in my title, it is very much like watching a foreign film without subtitles. You get the gist of what's going on, but there is no detail for which you can attach yourself emotionally. You won't care about any of the characters nor what is going on, if anything was actually going on at all.
Alternative titles for this film may have included "Christian bale gets so bored that he thinks he might possess actual human emotion but it turns out he just took some mescaline with a model" or "rich people get so happy that it eventually makes them sad".