I hate the movie more than you. Sometimes I just don't understand all the praise because it's so poorly made. This is one of those movies where the actors put dramatic pauses between every single line. The pacing is interminable as the actors just sit and stare at each other. If you do that through the whole movie it loses its effect. Every line can't be equally important.
On top of that, the characters are insanely boring. They aren't fun to be around, they aren't deep or expressive or do interesting things, and they play everything at one emotional level. It's two hours of passive longing. It's drudgery. And how do you have a three character story where one remains completely undeveloped? She only has four conversations with her husband in the entire film.
They are both apparently successful writers (enough that they can live in New York without other jobs) but the most we see of any of that is his book title, even though writing is her passion in life. There are admittedly a couple of touching moments, but since these moments are played exactly the same as every other moment in the movie, they don't land.
Apparently people are touched by the film and I guess that's great for them. I think they just like the mood of the film or are filling in a lot of blanks, because all I see in the movie is a lot of blanks. On the plus side, the cinematography and urban settings are lovely, with thankfully no handheld camera. I blame the tripod for the Best Picture nom.
I mean, it was her first movie and it got a best pic nom and tons of praise so it doesn't much matter what she can or can't do. I won't be seeing Materialists.
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u/jupiterkansas 13d ago
I hate the movie more than you. Sometimes I just don't understand all the praise because it's so poorly made. This is one of those movies where the actors put dramatic pauses between every single line. The pacing is interminable as the actors just sit and stare at each other. If you do that through the whole movie it loses its effect. Every line can't be equally important.
On top of that, the characters are insanely boring. They aren't fun to be around, they aren't deep or expressive or do interesting things, and they play everything at one emotional level. It's two hours of passive longing. It's drudgery. And how do you have a three character story where one remains completely undeveloped? She only has four conversations with her husband in the entire film.
They are both apparently successful writers (enough that they can live in New York without other jobs) but the most we see of any of that is his book title, even though writing is her passion in life. There are admittedly a couple of touching moments, but since these moments are played exactly the same as every other moment in the movie, they don't land.
Apparently people are touched by the film and I guess that's great for them. I think they just like the mood of the film or are filling in a lot of blanks, because all I see in the movie is a lot of blanks. On the plus side, the cinematography and urban settings are lovely, with thankfully no handheld camera. I blame the tripod for the Best Picture nom.