Broken Flowers is one of the best movies of the last years. It was slow, had a gentle story, played with the imagination of the audience, was concentrating on beautiful pictures and at every moment showed a tough piece of reality.
And now this: Jim Jarmush makes himself look like a 20 year old student who is staggering through a few fragments of new ideas, creating unnecessary (bohemian) figures, that approach the main character out of nowhere, babble about art, science, movies, music and all follow the same uninspired scheme. I had to wait 40 minutes to get the "riddle" resolved - of course, it is imagination that finally kills the evil realist, who comes along like a mixture of a modern financial mafia guy. Or is it the inner imagination struggling against the coldness of the own pragmatic, realistic personality? Isn't that a plot we have seen numerous times before - in much better films?
The whole thing tries to be subtle and is so blunt and boring, that it is unbelievable that it was made by the same person who did Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers.
I am disappointed. And bored. And currently I do not know, which is the worse feeling of the two.
And now this: Jim Jarmush makes himself look like a 20 year old student who is staggering through a few fragments of new ideas, creating unnecessary (bohemian) figures, that approach the main character out of nowhere, babble about art, science, movies, music and all follow the same uninspired scheme. I had to wait 40 minutes to get the "riddle" resolved - of course, it is imagination that finally kills the evil realist, who comes along like a mixture of a modern financial mafia guy. Or is it the inner imagination struggling against the coldness of the own pragmatic, realistic personality? Isn't that a plot we have seen numerous times before - in much better films?
The whole thing tries to be subtle and is so blunt and boring, that it is unbelievable that it was made by the same person who did Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers.
I am disappointed. And bored. And currently I do not know, which is the worse feeling of the two.