I don't get it.

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2020)

I mean, it's not a bad movie... but it's not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. At least not for me. ( I think reviews for movies should list all mind or mood altering drugs that the person took while watching it. I was 100% sober.)
Personally I really love Jauquin as an actor and he made some really interesting choices with this character .. choices that I thought could have been made more relevant in the end.
His performance wasn't worth the movie though. I mean it wasn't as startling as I thought it would be... it didn't move me or make me cry. Or take my breath away.
I'm slightly shocked he got the best actor for this performance when he was deserved for so many of his roles- I think at this point they just couldn't deny it. Funny that they pick one of his roles that wasn't the best. Makes sense though... a bunch of egos doesn't want to award the best. They will give you the award for your second best performance though.
Anyways as far as the movie is concerned ... I was shocked that there was so much hype about this movie being dark and violent. Really?
Ok yeah it's not a happy film. But it also manages to not touch on any real feelings of mine at the same time.
It stays perfectly on the surface of everything ... no real love or emotion is ever manufactured for any character ... you never quite feel the depth of disparity they are attempting to portray.
Murders? Ok yeah... but you'll see much much worse in a Saw Movie or even The Horseman. Or Bone Tamahawk... those movies were dark. Those movies were shocking in their violence and depths of despair. This movie just wasn't. At all.
But perhaps that is also the message- we are completely inoculated against violence at this point. You have to get really really bad to shock us.
I mean I didn't find anything about this movie remarkable or cool or mind blowing or anything really at all.
It's a really mediocre movie about some really important issues that they don't spend enough time dwelling on.
Instead it's too fast and too empty to provoke magnificence.
The best part of this movie though? The very best part is the dancing on the steps.
That was worth the entire two hours.
This movie is so easily missed. It's not a must see film. It's not even a got to see it film.
I mean ... what a media campaign I guess? It's crazy the way they do that. The hype surrounding this movie made it so much better than it ended up being.
I wish the film made the message louder and clearer ... it had a chance to really impact a self consumed generation that went to see this movie ... but it had to stay tolerable for them in the same token. Which took away from it in the end.
I think a lot of people saw this movie high or drunk ( I am totally sober ) and I think this film probably impacts people differently when they are inebriated. So that just means ... art really can't be judged when you're on something that makes it bigger than it is. It's not a fair trial. And to really judge a film... you need to watch it sober.