WHAT is going on???

Rating: 3/10 (24 April 2004)

Very very very confusing. The longer it's going on the more confusing it gets. And somewhere after the mexican woman performing on stage the movie lost the battle against the fast forward button. I found the movie to be too slow paced and some scenes seemed to have nothing to do with the story really. Well, why watch these odd stage performances for nearly 10 minutes if they are not actually saying anything? This movie is certainly not in my taste. Yes, I guess my precoded male genome found certain scenes to be of a very primitive interest... but that is not what makes a good movie or makes me vote for it one way or the other. Everything was slow! The actors were slow, the scenes were slow, the plot/story was slow... Then also, I just didn't get a lot of the stuff that was going on later... maybe it's the fast forward buttons fault, but anyway. Before I started pressing that button, the movie had hardly built up to anything anyway, so how would something be able to come out of that "almost nothing" anyway?
To make it short: It lost me big time when I lost interest. This an odd movie. Artistic but odd and if you only feel slightly as confused as I do, don't be afraid to admit it, because I guess there are a lot of people who don't dare saying other than that this was a great movie, just because it is hard (if at all possible) to make sense of it.
If you like mystic odd movies I'd much rather recommend that you watch Brazil, which really is an odd masterpiece!