What is the point of a movie?

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2018)

What makes a good movie? Maybe even more fundamental a question would be, what makes a movie? Is it the story? The acting? The visuals? The sound? Combination of a few, or all? Well one thing that this movie glaringly and purposefully show, is that, contrary to popular belief and academic and industry advice, you don't need to have a plot or a story, let alone a good one, to make a good, award winning movie.
Really, just have good cinematography, convincing actors, random vague dialogues, lots of blood and suspense scenes, you have an award-wining formula for any Hollywood movies. And if you'd argue otherwise, No Country for Old Men promptly shuts you up. This film was made to prove only one point, is that you don't need to have one when it comes to making a movie.
It is not a good movie in any logical, predictable, sense-making sense. Perhaps the cliche remark of "it's so bad it's good" would be used to describe this particularly unapologetic movie, but to call this movie bad is both undeserving and unjustified, for how is it a bad movie can be led to be called Movie of the Year, yet it will undeniably leave a bad taste in your mouth after consuming this 2-hour long movie right up to the end. So for those who have not watched it, it is, cliche-ly, a must watch, if anything, just to see how bad a movie can be to be an award winning film of the year.