Nothing can prepare you for any Lanthimos next scene. A lesson I should have learned by watching Dogtooth.
I pretty much had the exact same feelings (as the ones when watching Dogtooth) almost throughout the film: a sense of "what if", a disturbing curiosity about people behaviors in situations that you know just cannot exist.
The problem was that halfway through, the narrative loses its orientation. Is it a social commentary? Is it an extreme love story? Is it an allegory?
I can live with the disturbing images and ideas because I expected them beforehand. It's just that, the film loses focus and feels like it could have concluded almost an hour before it did.
And had it done so, we would be speaking about a whole different movie.
I pretty much had the exact same feelings (as the ones when watching Dogtooth) almost throughout the film: a sense of "what if", a disturbing curiosity about people behaviors in situations that you know just cannot exist.
The problem was that halfway through, the narrative loses its orientation. Is it a social commentary? Is it an extreme love story? Is it an allegory?
I can live with the disturbing images and ideas because I expected them beforehand. It's just that, the film loses focus and feels like it could have concluded almost an hour before it did.
And had it done so, we would be speaking about a whole different movie.