2/10
Painful to watch
8 June 2021
Could possibly work as a novel.

Its - apparently? - uneventful sequence of philosophical problems hastily and randomly touched forced me to stop watching at the 1 hour mark. As it is, not leaving any time to the viewer to elaborate what's going on, it's just a boring mess: zero comedy (it was listed as a comedy-drama: inaccurate), people overacting and shouting their fancy lines without having possibly ever grasped their meaning.

There's a whole bunch of these kind of movies/theater pieces around: few actors, few scenes, lots of monologues, highbrow target. I don't think there's a name for the genre. It may have some formal aspects in common with the old socratic dialogues - though many cases feel more like an involuntary parody... Anyways: as soon as they stop showing off their acting and start to stubbornly stress intellectual issues... flee.

This is both bad entertainment and a misleading didactical effort: philosophy - or whichever way you like to call thought provoking content - is meant to be read and pondered.
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