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Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003)
Creeper alert!
In the beginning of "The Forest for the Trees," I was really rooting for the main character, Melanie. She had uprooted her life after a breakup and started a new job in a new city, and I could relate all too well to her feelings of extreme awkwardness and isolation while she is attempting to meet people and settle in. And, although I was wary at first, I actually liked the gritty and (to me) low budget filming style that makes you feel like you are observing every day life rather than being hyper aware that you are watching a movie.
However, after a while, Melanie's attempts at connection were no longer endearing, but full on creepy, and her lack of backbone got old. The story wasn't really progressing beyond Melanie's repeated cringe-worthy attempts to befriend her bitchy neighbor, and I started to get bored.
I was kind of hoping that the movie would end with her losing it on everyone and going on a killing spree or something, but, unfortunately, the directors decided to go with a much more anticlimactic and "open ended" (read: random and wannabe "artistic") conclusion that just made me feel like I had wasted the past 80-ish minutes of my life.