This is a big downgrade from the Living Trilogy. Huge.
Someone else wrote that this is like Andersson took all his rejected scenes from the other movies and dumped them here so he could sell a few extra tickets.
He is almost 80. His best work is definitely behind him. Oh, what great work it was but this film just pisses me off.
Why do we need a narrator to explain what we see in every scene? Who needs art explained to them? It's an insult to the audience.
The production design is great. His living-painting syle where the camera doesn't move and all the action is done by the trick angles or the intricate, complicated moving of entire sets around. It is like no other. In some shots, the angles are even better or weirder in About Endlessness, but the story falls flat every single time.
I actually bought an early access digital copy of the film because I love the Living trilogy and I regret it so much. I felt like I was trapped in an endless hell of boringness until it just suddenly just stopped after less than an hour and fifteen minutes.
I should have felt relief, but considering I paid money for this content and I can't get a refund and now I have to stare at it in my collection for the rest of my life, I felt the opposite of relieved.
Roy Andersson is a sell-out. He ripped me off.
Someone else wrote that this is like Andersson took all his rejected scenes from the other movies and dumped them here so he could sell a few extra tickets.
He is almost 80. His best work is definitely behind him. Oh, what great work it was but this film just pisses me off.
Why do we need a narrator to explain what we see in every scene? Who needs art explained to them? It's an insult to the audience.
The production design is great. His living-painting syle where the camera doesn't move and all the action is done by the trick angles or the intricate, complicated moving of entire sets around. It is like no other. In some shots, the angles are even better or weirder in About Endlessness, but the story falls flat every single time.
I actually bought an early access digital copy of the film because I love the Living trilogy and I regret it so much. I felt like I was trapped in an endless hell of boringness until it just suddenly just stopped after less than an hour and fifteen minutes.
I should have felt relief, but considering I paid money for this content and I can't get a refund and now I have to stare at it in my collection for the rest of my life, I felt the opposite of relieved.
Roy Andersson is a sell-out. He ripped me off.