Watching the Square very quickly made me wonder if a movie needs to have a plot or maybe a theme to be good? A plot or a theme that can be identified with some sort of progress in that you can observe and wonder about on those dimensions that usually guides you in enjoy a movie.
The Square contains splendid acting, a milieu that is believable and depicted in a funny way and characters, that stands out (the ungrateful and apathic beggar, the two PR-guys trying to pop the exhibition up etc.). Still the movie left me bored and restless.
The storytelling is decided by the chronology of events. Meaning that when you leave one scene and go to the next it is the simple result of time passing by instead of having the inner logic of a string of events decide the matter. Themes can be identified but you drift in and out of them.
I suppose that this is the way all of us experience life. Events are related, sometimes not at all, sometimes coincidences changes your life and sometimes it does because of specific decisions. The plot in your life can be lost and found againg and time is always the underlying factor for this to occur.
In movies I want something else - a detective story either with a crime or something that can replace it. You need the "it".
Regards Simon
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The Square contains splendid acting, a milieu that is believable and depicted in a funny way and characters, that stands out (the ungrateful and apathic beggar, the two PR-guys trying to pop the exhibition up etc.). Still the movie left me bored and restless.
The storytelling is decided by the chronology of events. Meaning that when you leave one scene and go to the next it is the simple result of time passing by instead of having the inner logic of a string of events decide the matter. Themes can be identified but you drift in and out of them.
I suppose that this is the way all of us experience life. Events are related, sometimes not at all, sometimes coincidences changes your life and sometimes it does because of specific decisions. The plot in your life can be lost and found againg and time is always the underlying factor for this to occur.
In movies I want something else - a detective story either with a crime or something that can replace it. You need the "it".
Regards Simon
Ps. When you read reviews that gives max score check to see if the user has made more than one review. If not consider the possibility of a lobbyist. If you agree consider putting this post scriptum at the bottom at your own reviews.