Films are Cool
I could watch this for fun if it was edited down by like 30 minutes.
Have you ever wished for a literal adaptation of a book and then become completely disappointed after getting exactly what you wished for?
Well being stuck on a 14 hour flight and just having finished Stefan Zweig’s “Beware of pity”, I was so excited to find a recent adaptation of the work there for me to watch! So here’s the pros and cons:
Pros:
- A lot of what’s in the book is literally in the film (even down to…
I don’t know why I watched this but I only lasted 30 minutes before shutting it off before washing my eyes with holy water. The only way I can describe it is as a hippie fever dream, except it’s a nightmare for the audience and yours truly.
Thinking back about it (although it hurts), it had a few qualities that made me wonder if the directors were aliens in disguise attempting to make a movie for humans.