This extremely boring, rambling film is ultimately pointless. I did not need to sit through 144 minutes of souless character studies in order to learn that Hollywood has a dark soul destroying edge to it.
For the first 2 hours, I was just left wondering where the film was going. All I got to see were a bunch of loosely connected storylines involving characters I couldn't find myself getting interested in.
Then all of a sudden the film becomes a giant disaster film full of bizarre surrealistic energy.
None of it added up to anything very compelling. There were a few moments where you could tell that the filmmaker was earnestly trying to develop some metaphor and symbollism through the visual 'magic' of cinema, but these attempts were so obvious that it mostly just made it look like the guy was trying too hard. I think that in the spirit of the adventurous world of 70's cinema this film must have seemed very daring and compelling, but today, the film is just dull.
For the first 2 hours, I was just left wondering where the film was going. All I got to see were a bunch of loosely connected storylines involving characters I couldn't find myself getting interested in.
Then all of a sudden the film becomes a giant disaster film full of bizarre surrealistic energy.
None of it added up to anything very compelling. There were a few moments where you could tell that the filmmaker was earnestly trying to develop some metaphor and symbollism through the visual 'magic' of cinema, but these attempts were so obvious that it mostly just made it look like the guy was trying too hard. I think that in the spirit of the adventurous world of 70's cinema this film must have seemed very daring and compelling, but today, the film is just dull.