A truly sick movie

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 2006)

First of all, this movie made me wanna go to Amsterdam. All the fun seems to happen there. But it seems to be kind of fun that you need money to. Let's get serious. The set-up for this film is fascinating: It's realistic. The actors/directing are bad, but that doesn't ruin anything, as a matter of fact that fits to this kind of film. Also the photography seems a little pretentiously "artistic" or "raw", but that's also the usual standard in new movies. The "after-effects" (coloring etc.) added to the pictures are also really ugly. (The pretentiousness brings to my mind Steven Soderberg, especially "Traffic".) It seems like no-one in the film crews today has any kind of artistic interests, or anything they want to say or do. They just do their job without thinking anything. Actually it's an ugly film in every way; Also the people and the portrayals of the human relations (and of course the "human condition") are quite cynical. For example: All the women in this movie are brainless prostitutes. At least to me it remains unclear if the director wants to say something or not. The script is already so bad that I think no director could do a good movie of it. Or even want to try. It's a mystery to me why make movies (with millions and millions of dollars) without the slightest idea, point or inspiration, or any need to do something. Or maybe they just have to make up some work for the thousands of people who work in the film industry. The factories has to keep rolling, even if no-one would need their products. There is no life in this movie. I don't know is this movie supposed to be exciting or scary? The characters are so artificial and plastic that I cannot relate to them as human beings. I'm not interested at all what happens to them.
A funny idea came to me while watching this film: Fassbinder could have done this. It has the same kind of overall feeling of total negativity and nihilism that he had in his films (except "Angst essen seele auf" maybe). Of course Fassbinder's movie wouldn't have included this many "exciting" or "entertaining" plot turns or events, and it would have been visually even uglier than this. This is one of the most disturbed movies I've seen; It doesn't have any humor or balance (which for example all the "gore" of horror movies I've seen do have), only total darkness and pessimism. I'm not the biggest fans of Tarantino, but I noticed that he has produced this film (and they try to sell it with his name for no doubt). I really wonder why he wants to support this kind of ****. He could put his money on charity or something. Or give them to me.
If you want to see a movie that takes place in a hotel or a hostel, see "Hotel Rhuanda" instead.