Problemista (2023)
1/10
An excruciating experience
20 April 2024
This film was an excruciating experience. It centers on the desperate plight of an immigrant needing visa sponsorship to remain in the US, who dreams of becoming a toy designer.

Laden with cringe-inducing, soul-sapping dialogue and abysmal attempts at humor, this movie inflicts sheer torment on its audience. I had to abandon it after an excruciating hour, as I could no longer subject myself to such unbearable agony.

It's unclear whether the director, who also casts himself in the lead role, habitually walks like a Japanese geisha in real life, but he certainly does in this film. Alongside him, the woman who employs him exhibits frantic, neurotic behaviour, further destabilising the already weak narrative.

Watching this movie felt akin to enduring an episode of the Teletubbies... utterly painful.
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