Another fake deep movie

Rating: 2/10 (7 July 2019)

This movie tries to be deep but it ends up becoming the most pretentious romance movie I have ever seen. The message itself was actually not bad but the way it was handled was so banal it almost made me want to throw up midway through.
The plot itself is very messy and the narrative jumps are annoying as well as pointless. It would have functioned better as a linear story but that's not even the worst part of the film. The worst part is the fact that the film has no sense of direction in the sense that it does not know what it wants to be. It somehow hits all the clichés of a romance and yet it tries to be a deep movie which is where the problem is. If it stuck to being a romance then it would be tolerable but I think the issue is that it is a romance but it pretends to not be one which is not something that can be done, especially since it hits all the characteristics of a romance.
The humour falls very flat and there's pretty much no aspect of this which I found funny. At best this is a sort of failed mish mash of ideas wrapped up in pretentiousness in the hopes that the message of the film will distract the audience from how bland and banal the movie is and to be fair, it did work for the vast majority of the people.
It's actually a shame about the execution because the premise of the film is good. When watching a movie, there's a shared idea that we'd suspend disbelief in return for a good story and or engaging characters etc, this movie took those expectations and stamped on them. It failed horrendously in terms of pacing, it felt both too slow and too quick and it failed in making the philosophy and ideas clear.
Overall it was a pretty boring movie which is simply pretentious.