Artsy Fartsy Tale About Free Will Wrapped in Shock Value

Rating: 1/10 (8 March 2019)

The title pretty much sums up the entire movie. Save yourself the trouble and just skip it and for petes sake, dont sell out just to make yourself look deep.
This film is a childish rendition of what it means to be human. The argument is that its better to have choice and make bad choices than to have none. Its not a new idea, and most humans tackle the question by 4th grade when they realize they can think for themselves... well at least, most do. Clearly many dont have the brain power to think that deep, well into adulthood, hence the high scores you see for this film. Somehow, the question of self is profound to them. Truth is they are simply unintelligible themselves.
So anyway, this subject has been tackled since the dawn of humankind even in religion itself. Its taught in sunday school and even cavemen probably talked about it. Its not new, not profound, not original and certainly not well told in this film. The claim to fame for this film is just its shock value and people who assume that this was shocking back in the 70s. It wasnt. History lesson. Violence back then was easily 3-4x higher than today. It was far more common and anyone with half a brain knew just how violent the world was by just going outside or by reading the paper. Of course most people didnt hence the surprise when they saw this trashy movie. It was basically like watching porn and let me tell you porn back then was equally graphic. I remember walking around the hotel lobby in Europe as a kid where they had porn magazines out in the open. Subjects like watersports and scat were normal so dont tell me people had not seen worse back in the day and mind many had seen the horrors of WW2 so again, this film was literally nothing in comparison.
Anyway, stop making excuses for this film. This movie is the brainchild of an immature mind and there is nothing more to say about it. Everything was childish from message and imagery to execution and dialog. Grow up already. We are no longer 15 years old.