The Sound & Visuals Outweigh the Script

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2019)

Just got back from seeing this about an hour ago. It's a pretty solid film with a cohesive plot and some social commentaries. My main gripe with this film is that it spends too much time with the wrong thing. I fully understand that this was always meant to be a character film that shows a person's dissent into darkness, but this film spends so much time setting up that the actual plunge feels lackluster. Small portions of this could've been cut out to shorten the run and further boost the ending (including the final 3min) and the moral of the story wouldn't have suffered. Leads me to believe that they were left in merely for their visual beauty (and this film has lots of truly beautiful shots)