I get it! I really do. The whole Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment" thing. But, just because a novel runs to 700 odd pages doesn't mean a film maker has to stretch a movie loosely based on the novel to over four hours.
I make it a practice not to review a movie on here, or even to give it my own score independent of the score on IMDb, unless I've watched it from beginning to end. To provide myself with that ability was a major undertaking in the case of this movie; Norte etc is glacially slow moving and unutterably boring for the whole of its turgid four hours and ten minutes.
Scenes stay in shot for interminable periods with no dialogue and not a flicker of movement. I felt no sympathy for, or connection with, any of the characters, except the lady who had to sell vegetables to feed herself and her family and for her husband who was convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
I couldn't possibly have cared less for any of the other characters and I have to say that some of them drove me quietly nuts. The acting was patchy at best and laughably bad at times from some of the characters, especially the guy who killed the pawn broker/usurer (and didn't she just beg to be dispatched?)
I paid good money for the Blu-ray of this pretentious and tedious lot of rubbish; it is most definitely NOT a movie I will ever watch again. Perhaps I can find someone on life support that I can give it to.
I make it a practice not to review a movie on here, or even to give it my own score independent of the score on IMDb, unless I've watched it from beginning to end. To provide myself with that ability was a major undertaking in the case of this movie; Norte etc is glacially slow moving and unutterably boring for the whole of its turgid four hours and ten minutes.
Scenes stay in shot for interminable periods with no dialogue and not a flicker of movement. I felt no sympathy for, or connection with, any of the characters, except the lady who had to sell vegetables to feed herself and her family and for her husband who was convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
I couldn't possibly have cared less for any of the other characters and I have to say that some of them drove me quietly nuts. The acting was patchy at best and laughably bad at times from some of the characters, especially the guy who killed the pawn broker/usurer (and didn't she just beg to be dispatched?)
I paid good money for the Blu-ray of this pretentious and tedious lot of rubbish; it is most definitely NOT a movie I will ever watch again. Perhaps I can find someone on life support that I can give it to.