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In one word, grotesque
This is by far one of the most ridiculous, boring, presumptuous, film I have seen in a long time. Basically its like watching Amelie, set in a roger rabbit lab, with caricatures of characters. The film is patronizing, there are many political themes poorly transplanted into the main theme. The love affair is not believable but just plain creepy. To like this you must either lack critical sense or would need to be ignorant of the last 30 years of movie production, unless the motive in watching is to make a stereotypical dumbed down political statement about "progressive" ideas, which oddly feels misplaced even. The pace is terrible. The art direction and film score is a plain copy (but poorly executed) of Amelie. To my opinion, there may have been a good idea at the start, but it ends up being an overrated, grotesque movie, that tries to mix together tons of classics dressed up as an art avant-garde original film. It's not original, but obviously Hollywood like to reward thievery and intellectual laziness.
December 2018 · Movies and TV · verified purchase
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