Pretentious

Rating: 6/10 (15 July 2019)

We get it, the director is an incredible artist.
What I see in this movie is, one by one, the relationships this girl is holding onto "die off," as they would being that these are relationships built upon fear of abandonment caused by a huge, traumatic personal loss.
What I don't get is why everyone is saying the ending is the most disturbing part. If this movie is so symbolic...this is the scene where all her inner pain, detachment, fears are finally lifted. Her anxiety is gone. It's all gone. She is finally free from her trauma.
I went into this movie carrying her anxiety, and left smiling with her. Maybe I interpreted it wrong, who knows.
Would I watch this movie again and again? No.
Why? Too long. There was wayyyy too much material for the message that was become conveyed.
All being said, I find the moments where her outside world is as crazy as her internal mindset to be very powerful. Her suffering is finally leaving her body, she doesn't have to carry the wait on her own anymore. And that in itself is beautiful.
But...still.....WHY? Some scenes, just w h y