stupid trying to act clever

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2009)

I am not impressed by demonstrations of machismo and male aggression or the idea of fighting in general. The excuse for all of the violence is that it's supposed to lead to philosophical enlightenment about existential reality and the nature of self or something, which does interest me, but I don't think this was really developed. Neither am I impressed by this type of storytelling, that deliberately misleads the audience into believing something which turns out not to be true and then fooling you into thinking it's clever when this is revealed. I'm not fooled but I know a lot of people are. I don't know if this was the movie that caused this irritating format to be repeated so many times. The actors are good, but just trying to act cool all the time isn't difficult. most of the people who like this movie probably do that all the time. I don't even fancy Helena Bonham Carter so there wasn't much in it for me except the whole wretched existence vibe which was OK.